Check out my updated Blog Roll
It's a bit buried in the nav sidebar, but I've updated my blogroll with a more recent list of blogs from museum-field colleagues who inspire me.
Robert J Weisberg
Museums in an Age of Despair
If you work in a museum, the title of this post is a no-brainer, but it is also part of the problem.
Call It The Human League: Museum Computer Network 2016
MCN2016 was a great, positive, uplifting conference, and it happened—and election night doesn't change that. A commitment to real, impactful change was never more important.
This Month I'll Be on Medium
For most of October 2016, my good friend Jennifer Foley, of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and I were exchanging letters on Medium about some contentious words in museum practice.
Art Book Digital Publishing: Hopelessly Lost, Making Excellent Time
Have we moved past the search for the one digital art book format to rule them all?
Playing Favorites: Personal Taste and Working in a Museum
When you work in a museum, how do you decide on your favorite work in the collection? And should that change over time?
Mission Driven on a Capitalist Superhighway
Will museums always be monetizing from here on out?
Tag, You're It: Museums and the Internet of Stuff
The micro-location revolution promises more information for museums and their visitors than ever. But do we already have too much "stuff" in the museum? And how do we keep track of it all?
The Event Horizon of Digital Skills and Museum Staff
Museum workers need comprehensive digital skills that are fairly and equally distributed. Will we end up with digital haves and have-nots in the museum?
Diversity in Museums: a Follow-Up
Are the privileged—including myself—ready to look in that mirror? My post last week on diversity got a lot of positive responses, but I'm more grateful for the ones which pointed out mistakes and implications in what I wrote.