After nine years with Blogger/Blogspot, the little niggles have become too much and I've moved Open Objects over to a self-hosted WordPress blog. If you've been redirected from there, use the search box to find specific posts, check out tags or categories, or check out the 25 most popular posts (since 2008, when I added stats):
- Frequently Asked Questions about crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
- Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and "Clay tobacco pipe makers' marks from London" website (the only post from 2006?)
- Edward Tufte on 'Beautiful Evidence' (notes from a talk he gave in 2010)
- Impressions from Mona, Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art
- Survey results: issues facing museum technologists
- Sharing is caring keynote 'Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons'
- Finding problems for QR tags to solve
- Clash of the models? Object-centred and object-driven approaches in online collections
- Museum pecha kucha night (notes from a 2009 event at the British Museum
- What would a digital museum be like if there was never a physical museum?
- 'Game mechanics for social good: a case study on interaction models for crowdsourcing museum collections enhancement'
- Survey results: is it friendly or weird when a museum twitter account follows you back?
- My Europeana Tech keynote: Open for engagement: GLAM audiences and digital participation
- Why do museums prefer Flickr Commons to Wikimedia Commons?
- Designing for participatory projects: emergent best practice, getting discussion started
- Helping us fly? Machine learning and crowdsourcing
- Brochureware, aggregators and the messy middle: what's the point of a museum website?
- Notes from 'Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities' (2013 event report)
- New challenges in digital history: sharing women's history on Wikipedia
- Clay Shirky on 'mass internet collaboration' at London's ICA (2009 talk notes)
- 'Go digital' at Museums Association 2012 Conference
- Museums and the audience comments paradox
- What are the right questions about museum websites?
- The rise of the non-museum (and death by aggregation)
- Does a museum's obsession with polish hinder innovation?
And two bonus favourite posts:
- Can ugly babies save museums?
- Rockets, Lockets and Sprockets – towards audience models about collections? (I didn't quite get this right so one day I'll return to this and re-think it)