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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October 4th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others recommend that we set our thermostats at 68°F in the winter and F in the summer. Some people are comfortable at home with these temperatures and some or not. So how can we save energy and still be comfortable?
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Posted in Health, energy, KQED, QUEST, Partners, Environment, Physics, heating, Engineering, conservation, cfl, home energy, heat | Comments Off
October 1st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
It was another average Tuesday. I was sitting at my desk, looking at my calendar. Another day of budget meetings, returning emails, reviewing contracts, yawn. The usual buzz of production was going on around me, a crew going out to do a story about… sailing. Ah sailing, my favorite topic.
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Posted in pbs, QUEST, Science, TV, Physics, boat, Boats, aerodynamics, sailing | Comments Off
September 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
There are three iconic exhibits of the Academy that have been revived - the Alligator Swamp Tank, African Hall and the Foucault Pendulum. Each exhibit has its own special history and anecdotes but I quite like the science and Academy history of the Foucault Pendulum.
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Posted in KQED, pbs, QUEST, Physics, cal academy, foucault pendulum, Coriolis Effect, Leon Foucault | Comments Off
August 13th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
When I was assigned to work on our QUEST story on nanotechnology, I braced myself for the complex terrain ahead. The focus is on the public policy implications of the surge in consumer goods containing nanoparticles. And just how big is the market for nano-manufactured goods?
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Posted in KQED, TV, Physics, Kent Pinkterton, Nano-Tex, nanogold, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanosilver, nanotechnology | Comments Off
August 5th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Given today’s environment, it is surprising that there are still thin people around. The origins of this epidemic are pretty easy to spot—lots of food and less opportunity for exercise. And yet, not everyone in the U.S. is overweight. So why is one person fat and the next thin?
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Posted in Health, KQED, Physics, genetics, genes, obesity, bmi, dopamine, DRD2, eating, fat, hunger, overweight | Comments Off
July 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I love the idea that he was just listening to the radio one day and heard that the Library of Congress was failing in its struggle to preserve a significant portion of our nation’s music and sound heritage. Haber basically thought, “well, as a designer of instrumentation for particle physics, I
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Posted in kqedquest, pbs, lbnl, TV, Physics, Music, audio, Library of Congress, edison, languages, recording, sound, ucsb | Comments Off
July 24th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Sitting in a small, non-descript room in the basement of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, astronomy graduate student Hannah Swift and physicist Saul Perlmutter are searching for supernovae, stars destroyed in huge explosions millions or billions of years ago.
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Posted in KQED, kqedquest, TV, Physics, space, stars, dark energy, dark matter | Comments Off
July 8th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I’ve always been fascinated by weird animals. Especially those with out-of-the-ordinary genetics.
Transcaucasian mole voleOne of my favorites is a little burrowing mammal called a Transcaucasian mole vole. These guys live in the Caucasus Mountains of Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. There they are born, live, have babies and
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Posted in KQED, QUEST, Physics, gene, genetics, dna, mammal, Caucasus Mountains, chromosome, gender, SRY, sry gene, vole | Comments Off
