About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
A wired magazine report ‘How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life‘ looks at the the Second Life islands and experiences created by big business. Author Frank Rose speaks to executives from Coca-Cola, the National Basketball Association, wondering why they’ve put so much money into worlds with
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
…more diary entries from Catalhoyuk.July 24, started late at night in tent. [but posted as July 25, 2007]Spent some time whizzing things around in ArcGIS the past few days. I never get to play with GIS at work so it’s quite fun. I need to talk to Cord and
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Read the full post at Open Objects
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – Daniel
David Tarrant continues to send photographs of Mexican plants that are poorly documented online, so here’s another. Thank you again, David.
The common name in Mexico for this species is pega…
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
There are many fascinating connections between the works of art in Oudry’s Painted Menagerie and works of art in the Getty Museum’s permanent collection. In part one and part two of this post, I suggested self-guided tours of portraits and animal-themed decorative arts in the exhibition and the Getty Museum’s collection.
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Read the full post at Looking at Animals: A Getty Exhibition Blog
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
2:00 AM on the Kuuvik River in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. Photo courtesy of my friend, Drew MacDonald.
Being the token astrophysicist in my social circles, I get a lot of questions from friends and family about what’s going on in the Universe these days. I try to use
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Read the full post at QUEST Science Blog
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
This Friday, don’t forget to get out to 911 Media Arts Center for the Artist Reception and Opening of Gary Hill’s Glass Onion, beginning at 6 PM. For this interactive installation, you will be “topographically mapped into a field of cocentric rectangles” in Hill’s exploration of the relationship between video feedback and cybernetics,
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Read the full post at Hankblog
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
As I mentioned on a previous post, I smuggled my PC on holiday and had a go at learning Ruby on Rails. I’m not going to spend much time talking about what I think. Needless to say, I had fun starting from knowledge = nil and gently climbing up the learning
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July 31st, 2007 by AutoAggregator
Odile Crick — who drew the first image model of DNA for Jim Watson and Francis Crick’s original 1953 paper in Nature
– has died at the age of 86, according to The New York Times today.
In a “brief interview” (one can imagine his impatience with the journalist), Watson recalls why Crick’s wife was…
Read the full post at Biomedicine on Display
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