Robert J Weisberg

I work on a bit of everything in museum content. I find human solutions to tech problems. I geek out on workflow. No, really. I learn and teach and write everything down.

Links of the Week: October 4, 2024: Imagining and Building Something New

We're having trouble communicating. Is that a feature or fault of modern life?

After the App Is Gone: Museum-Field Conversation Post Bird

Museum professionals are despairing about conversations without a certain social media platform. But is the issue bigger than just one app?

Links of the Week: September 20, 2024: AI Eats the Museum Thoughtspace

AI bring new value to the joke "everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it."

The "fAIt" Accompli of AI in Museums

Is the rush to AI obscuring a dangerous techno-solutionism in museums?

AI Before, During, and After the Museum Visit: an Interview with Marion Carré of Ask Mona

AI can change visitor experience—can all museum workers get involved?

Links of the Week: August 19, 2024: Access and Adaptation

Museums and workers can't wait around for there to be time and money for fairness and justice.

Adaptive Design Is the Latest Frontier in Accessibility—an Interview with Grace Jun

Museums need to learn that accessibility is more than just an add-on when schedules and budgets allow.

Links of the Week: August 9, 2024: What Were You Expecting?

Are museums and their workers still capable of being surprised?

In Search of the Counterintuitive: A Review of At Work in the Ruins and Museum Magazine's Issue on Convergence

Do we need more of the unexpected and surprising in our polarized world?

Links of the Week: July 26, 2024: Accessibility and AI

Museums know the problem with accessibility is one of time and resource allocation—are they hoping to skip the work with AI?

Links of the Week: July 19, 2024: The AI Use Case Throwdown™ That Wasn't

Is the opposite of a use case the lack of a use case—or an uneven distribution of technological benefits?

With AI, to Throwdown™ or Not Throwdown™ is the Question

AI either has tons of use cases or is all hype. Can museums figure out which—or both—and learn something more profound about their organizations?