In my previous post about the “museum directory” I built at UK Museums on the Web mashup day, I mentioned a museum address CSV file from the 24hr Museum which I planned to put use at a later date. The original source I had contained *really* dodgy data and only about 380 institutions – I’d… [Read more…]
July 2, 2007
A long and interesting thread broke out on the Museums Computer Group mailing list today about how museums could use Facebook to their best advantage. As I said on the thread – although the question about how Facebook deals with organisations vs individuals is interesting, the key question to me is what we’re trying to… [Read more…]
June 30, 2007
I just got my alpha sign-in from Google for their Mashup Editor. Immediately, this ruined any good intentions I have for finishing off my shed but hey, every sane person is in bed at 7am on a Saturday morning, so it’s time in lieu as far as I’m concerned. First impressions: true to Google style,… [Read more…]
June 29, 2007
I stumbled across Paul Walk’s post on breakthroughs a couple of nights ago and meant to have a serious conversation with him during our regular ElPub gathering. Instead I was wearing a silly hat (Facebook login required) and no such conversation happened. The point he’s picked up on is a good one. Stuff happens when… [Read more…]
June 28, 2007
I’ve just got 5 sign-ins for Freebase to give away. It’s currently in alpha and not available to new users but has just sent out invites to all registered users to extend the testing of the service. I wrote a post about the service a while back – it’s a kind of Semantic Webby approach… [Read more…]
June 27, 2007
I’ve posted a page about how I built the museum directory mashup which I demonstrated during my talk at the UK Museums on the Web conference last week. This started off as a KML file for displaying UK museums on Google Earth but the natural direction was to push it into a simple framework which… [Read more…]
June 24, 2007
‘Web Adept‘, the UK Museums on the Web conference has been and gone, and I reckon it’s been another interesting year – I really enjoyed helping pull together Mashed Museum and the conference day itself was good too, no to mention the usual opportunities to get together with people you haven’t seen for a while… [Read more…]
June 22, 2007
Cheating a bit, as it’s no longer hack day. But who’d notice? I’ve just given my presentation on what we all achieved yesterday. When I’m not writing this on my PDA, I’ll upload and link it. Until then, here’s a list of what we did: - a Yahoo Pipes ‘find museums near…’ - uk museums… [Read more…]
June 21, 2007
Well, we’ve started.. Everyone found the building which was a good start…and Ross bought a bunch of sweets, which is also proving a boon. Top dollar organisational skills from the man – we’ve decamped upstairs to where there’s a stronger wifi signal and all seems to be groovy. We’re even spoilt with 2 machines each…almost… [Read more…]
June 20, 2007
I’m lurking in a particularly grim hotel in Leicester right now, just getting together some thoughts for Mashed Museum tomorrow. Unpleasantness aside, I have wifi (ouch, expensive), running water, and electric light. And the bar is still open so I may head down for a “lonely bloke in hotel” pint in a moment.. <off topic>… [Read more…]
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