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 4th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
One thing you try to learn, covering these stories, is how to navigate around the tricky subject of climate change. The trickiness isn’t if it’s happening, but rather what, exactly, it’s doing, what the effects are.
Take this year’s particularly nasty fire season, for example. We’ve had the driest spring in 80
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Posted in Radio, KQED, pbs, QUEST, Weather, calfire, center for fire research and outreach, dry lightning, fires, max moritz, rueben grijalva | Comments Off
June 28th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Jars of poached Sturgeon eggs and other fish roe
from a Department of Fish and Game bust in Cordelia, California.I knew I was in trouble when I saw the jars. Big jars, filled with tinted liquid, with weird things suspended in them. Things that definitely used to be alive, and that I
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Posted in Radio, KQED, pbs, QUEST, Environment, fishing, california, dna, dogs, forensics, canine program, caviar, dfg, game, game warden, hunting, necropsy, poaching, quagga mussel | Comments Off
June 21st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I was excited to be working on this story. After all, it’s not that often that a primarily environmental reporter gets to spend a couple weeks focusing on forensics technology and the debate over gun control (let alone receive firearms training on a 38-special from a senior criminalist at the
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Posted in Radio, KQED, pbs, QUEST, public radio, bullet, California Department of Justice, crime, detective, forensics, gun control, microstamping | Comments Off
June 14th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Not everyone would be excited about a box of 16 pounds of meat. But for the members of the Bay Area Meat CSA, the enthusiasm was off the charts. I took part in their spring share this year, where member of the CSA receive a monthly box of pork, poultry,
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Posted in Radio, energy, KQED, kqedquest, pbs, ecology, global warming, carbon footprint, organic, carbon, CSA's, farmers market, meat | Comments Off
June 12th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
A look into the science of skin.
In an article this week in the New York Times, brainpower was correlated with the complexity of nerve synapses. Leading researcher Dr. Grant, who has studied the interconnectedness of neurons, likened this connection to technology; “From the evolutionary perspective, the big brains of vertebrates not
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Posted in Radio, KQED, Partners, Technology, TV, Chemistry, NPR, New York Times, brain, dr. jablonski, Dr. Nina Jablonski, kpfa, organ, pigmentation, rosecea, skin, Skin: a natural history, sweat, uv rays | Comments Off
June 10th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
One of the best parts of working on this story was stumbling upon a subculture of electric car fanatics, like Darell Dickey, many of whom drive incredibly rare, full-size all-electric cars that were available for a blink of an eye in the late 90s and early 2000s. There are just hundreds
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Posted in Radio, energy, KQED, QUEST, ecology, Environment, car, power, propulsion, ac propulsion, Arizona, auto, electric car, rav4, Scion | Comments Off
May 31st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Artistic rendition of exoplanet Gilese 436 b, created in Celestia
In the past fifteen years, the search for other Earths– and possibly life– outside our own solar system has taken off. As of May 2008, 293 extrasolar planets have been confirmed. Most of these planets are big, gas giants like our
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Posted in Radio, KQED, kqedquest, Engineering, 55 cancri, expolanets, kepler, lick observatory, nasa, planets, shane telescope | Comments Off
May 24th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Scientists predict we’ll be seeing hotter conditions and drier forests in the near future. The Summit Fire that’s been burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains is likely a part of that trend. QUEST talks to Malcolm North with the U.S. Forest Service. He says any area that’s burned before is
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Posted in Radio, KQED, pbs, QUEST, Weather, coast range, fire, forest, santa cruz, summit fire | Comments Off
