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Museums and Flickr

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online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

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  As part of the preparation, we surveyed participants for their burning questions and that's how I created the content. The questions were a mix of strategic and tactical. One question I got was: What Theatre companies are using Four Square in an interesting and engaging way? Photo by Neatonjr.

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Master Mashup: Viral Marketing from Bob Dylan

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He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. When, on the other hand, amateurs had the opportunity to help design scientific questions or disseminate research results, they often felt more ownership of the project and greater interest in using scientific methods to address their own community needs.

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

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There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here. And now, the first question in everyone's head: why the heck would I EVER want to follow this 140-character tripe? There's the basic site.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

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Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S. Keep in mind that penalties for knowingly violating U.S.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

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In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Moderator: Carl Goodman (Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image).