The MUSE awards were announced at AAM this week, and the list represents an interesting overview of museum technology activity.

Here's a project that wasn't recognised [something that surprised me a bit]: The milti-touch tables at the Denver Art Museum.

david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science .... it's got me wondering about what the 'general, intelligent reader' might want to know about museums and the web. 

i'm thinking we need to answer the following questions:

Given the interest in the search sessions at MW2008, and the follow-up discussion on Seb's, Nate's, and Brian's blogs, i though it would be useful to summarize a bit of the reading i've been doing lately for the phd + steve.museum research.

Directly relevant, is a longitudinal meta-study of the end-user search literature by Karen Markey, published in two parts in mid-2007 [in english, she compared and analysed the results of a lot of studies, conducted over a long time: 25 years].

here's the rationale -- and history -- behind my interest in the cc+ framework. something that i think museums should be looking seriously at. it was spurred by an exchange on the MCG list and still bears a bit of that context in its tone.

the feed for the big screens is coming from

http://onetag.org/ot/display/slideshow1/fullscreen.htm

There was quite a timely piece in C|net today about backchannels at tech-related conferences. See "How to survive the next-gen confab . It comes at a time when we're close to wrapping together a set of on-line venues for MW2008.

This will be the third year we've had an on-line space for MW while it was taking place, and afterwards. it seems that this might be the year that it takes off a bit more. If you're out and about on the Web, check out the following