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Has anyboy met a brain in a museum lately?

There is an interesting piece by the Nobel Prize Winner (2000) Eric R. Kandel in the New York Times.Titled “What the Brain Can Tell US About Art” Kandel’s piece contributes to discussions about art that have been going on for at least a decade now in the… View Post

Apr 13th

Jumping from Exhibit to Exhibit

There is an interesting discussion about linearity of exhibitions over at Nina Simon’s Museum2.0. Ed Rodley (*wave back*) has added his own take on this discussion on his blog “Thinking about Museums“. Ed highlights the relationship and between on the one… View Post

Feb 20th

Dec 7th

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“It is extremely difficult to spread joy. It is extremely easy to spread...”

– Harvey Sacks, “On doing ‘being ordinary’” p.426 (via dichosyvida)

Sep 25th

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Big Data's Human Component - Jim Stikeleather -... →

Sep 17th

Barry Brown: Studying iPhone use in the wild →

barbro: I’ve been doing some really fun work with Moria McGreggor recently using small wearable cameras and software that records your interaction with an iPhone. This lets us collect unobtrusive data about how mobile devices and iPhones are used ‘in the wild’ and over a long period of time. What is…

Sep 12th

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Done! London 2012 Stadium Jigsaw

After my return from a trip abroad I found it was completed!

Aug 22nd

How Did Howard Rheingold Get So “Net Smart”?: An...

See on Scoop.it - Book Reviews: marketing interaction techNology See on henryjenkins.org

Aug 15th

How Did Howard Rheingold Get So “Net Smart”: An...

See on Scoop.it - Book Reviews: marketing interaction techNology See on henryjenkins.org

Aug 13th

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London 2012 Stadium Jigsaw

Here’s a picture of our progress with the incredibly difficult jigsaw. There is hope that we will complete it before the Olympics finish. Lots done, still more to do…an update shortly, I hope…

Aug 1st

The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World...

See on Scoop.it - Book Reviews: marketing interaction techNology See on nms.sagepub.com

Jul 29th

The Gamification of the BT Customer Service...

About a month ago we had BT Infinity and a BT Vision system installed in our home. The system is advertised as speeding up the Internet and providing an at least satisfying TV experience at home. I am playing the advert down here but so far not even this toned down description of the service offered by BT has come true. The Internet connection is as slow as it ever was and since its installation...

Jul 27th

Nina Simon: Reinventing a Museum as a Community...

See on Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology Nina Simon, Executive Director of the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, details how the organization’s financial crisis enabled them to take risks and explore a new model that would help them garner support and build relationships to turn… See on artstrategies.org

Jul 23rd

#MuseumNext video QR codes, Smart Objects, Museums...

See on Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology “Check out MuseumNext’s video of Chris Speed’s and Claire Ross’ presentation about Smart Objects, QR codes, Museums and Public Engagement. More of MuseumNext’s videos are on vimeo.” See on claireyross.wordpress.com

Jul 19th

Tiffany Shlain & Andrew Keen in Conversation at...

See on Scoop.it - Interdependence Tiffany Shlain & Andrew Keen in Conversation at Comment Conference, London, 12 July 2012 @tiffanyshlain @ajkeen (audio) See on ec.libsyn.com

Jul 17th

Review of Eli Pariser's Filter Bubble

See on Scoop.it - Book Reviews: marketing interaction techNology See on firstmonday.org

Jul 8th

Open Access – but not for authors

See on Scoop.it - (Higher) Education & Technology See on socialsciencespace.com

Jun 21st

Apps bring museum studies to life

See on Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology Touchscreen devices are putting students and curators together… See on guardian.co.uk

Jun 21st

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Siva Vaidhyanathan @sivavaid : what happens when... →

Jun 16th

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LearnPod 12

See on Scoop.it - (Higher) Education & Technology LearnPod is the UK’s largest unconference for post-16 learning. See on learnpod12.eventbrite.com

Jun 16th

LearnPod 12

See on Scoop.it - (Higher) Education & Technology LearnPod is the UK’s largest unconference for post-16 learning. See on learnpod12.eventbrite.com

Jun 16th

A brief history of sharing images – Mark Turrell...

See on Scoop.it - Marketing and Technology Mark Turrell on how dramatically the process of taking and sharing photographs has changed in the last 150 years. See on kernelmag.com

May 31st

Social media + the shifting pace of...

See on Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology Ed Rodley has just started the coolest museum blogging project I’ve come across lately. He is asking the museum/blog community to imagine making a museum from scratch. I thought it would be a… See on t.co

May 18th

Social media + the shifting pace of...

See on Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology Ed Rodley has just started the coolest museum blogging project I’ve come across lately. He is asking the museum/blog community to imagine making a museum from scratch. I thought it would be a… See on t.co

May 18th

Mark Twain on Plagiarism and Originality: "All... →

May 13th

Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real -...

Via Scoop.it - Book Reviews: marketing interaction techNology The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine. Via m.theatlantic.com

Mar 4th

The new art experience – Matt Adams – The Kernel

Via Scoop.it - Museum, Interaction and Technology Matt Adams looks at whether technology is changing the way we produce and consume art. Are we still happy looking at paintings in a gallery? Via kernelmag.com

Feb 29th

How Nike's Marketing Revolution has resulted in a...

Via Scoop.it - Marketing and Technology Nike are quietly engineering a revolution in marketing. Via fluffylinks.com

Feb 26th

The world is where we live

Via Scoop.it - Interdependence We are all connected.http://myworld.panda.org… Via vimeo.com

Feb 7th

Web economy 'to double by 2016'

Via Scoop.it - Marketing and Technology With half the world online by 2016, the web economy in the G20 countries is set to nearly double in size to $4.2tn (£2.7tn), research suggests. Via bbc.co.uk

Jan 27th

Fleecing the flock

Via Scoop.it - Marketing and Technology WITH a nudge from their pastor, the 25,000 members of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church near Atlanta opened their hearts, and their wallets, to Ephren Taylor. Via economist.com

Jan 27th

UC Berkeley Regents' Lecture: Howard Rheingold...

Via Scoop.it - Marketing and Technology Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more… Via vimeo.com

Jan 27th

John Rooksby: Digital Economy Network Meetings →

johnrooksby: EPSRC and several of the other UK research councils have been funding “Digital Economy“ themed research for two or three years now – the general aim being to “rapidly realise the transformational impact of digital technologies on aspects of community life, cultural experiences, future society,…

Jan 27th

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Jan 17th

The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting... →

Jan 11th

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose... →

Jan 11th

Publishers Back New Bill to Ban Public Access to... →

Jan 10th

Jan 4th

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Code Year

Via Scoop.it - Interaction and Technology Make 2012 the year you learn to code!… Via codeyear.com

Jan 2nd

Exclusive: Matias Duarte on the philosophy of...

Via Scoop.it - Interaction and Technology I’m sitting in an anonymous, fluorescently-lit office on the Google campus where the Android team is situated, a surprisingly bare setting that seems to clash with the rest of the company’s,… Via mobile.theverge.com

Jan 2nd

NPR.org » No Excuses: Robots Put You In Two Places...

Via Scoop.it - Interaction and Technology Via m.npr.org

Jan 1st

60 Seconds: Things That Happen Every Sixty Seconds... →

Infographic Via @achimmuellers

Dec 29th

A World Apart - The Daily Californian →

Interview with @tiffanyshlain on her new autoblogography “Connected” http://connectedthefilm.com/

Sep 15th

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Join the Anti Powerpoint Party →

The Anti-PowerPoint-Party is an international movement that is opened to proponents from all over the world without a membership fee.

Jul 19th

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Studying social organisation with video →

notesonresearch: Notes from a talk I gave on the 7th of July at the Research Squared Conference 2011 on Data Analysis. The abstract is below: This report was developed from an invited talk I gave for the Research Squared Conference 2011 on Data Analysis held at the University of Loughborough. It examines the role of video within qualitative empirical studies of social conduct and organisation....

Jul 12th

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Life Online Galleries via Design Week →

Jul 4th

World Populations by timezone via @doctorow →

Jun 13th

Aleks Krotoski untangling the web: Love Letters:... →

untanglingtheweb: Whitty, M. (2007). Love Letters: the development of romantic relationships throughout the ages. In A. Joinson, K. McKenna, T. Postmes & U. Reips (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. An excellent overview of the differences and similarities of… Love letters-social relationships through the ages

Apr 19th

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Apr 5th

Aleks Krotoski untangling the web: Interview: Joel... →

untanglingtheweb: The first time I met Joel Veitch was at a party. I was amazed at the reaction of a close friend who, admittedly, is a connoisseur of all things cat (both real and virtual). Normally unflappable, she was introduced to Veitch and flapped, “You do all the videos of cats on the Internet! I’m a big

Mar 31st

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