New Media Initiatives

Overall Blogs and Blogging for Museums is on the rise: more blogs, more posts, and very many more readers.

• We'll go into these later, but museums are starting to dig into other social networking / Web 2.0 scenes:
  • Museums in My Space?
  • Second Life
• More confident blogging
  • The barrier to entry is gone
• More "important" people are blogging:
  • (Fresno) Met curator: http://www.fresnomet.org/blog/curator
  • director of the Walters: http://www.thewalters.org/blog/

Online Curating - is this the future??

• "Link dump" posts - in a sense these blogs "curate" the blogosphere
  • http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2007/03/26/clippings-collected-from-the-salon-floor/
  • http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?cat=30
  • http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/?cat=11
• Two related / possibly the same blogs essentially ARE the museum:
  • http://museumofdust.blogspot.com/
  • http://zymoglyphic.blogspot.com/ / http://www.zymoglyphic.org/galleries.html
• Take home point: how can we get our users involved in this process of curating the web?