http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/gates/gates.html
I was initally drawn to this paper as it was about museums creating blogs and I just created a blog...so I felt a connection. Simple, but you've got to start somewhere.
It did get me to thinking about the role museums have in the blogosphere. It seems to me that their entry into the realm goes against the original mission of blogs - to enable a free stream of thought outside of corporate and media driven and controlled outlets. Do does a museum blog, which is a controlled entry that must pass through several layers of approvals and editing before being released, a true blog? It would seem to fly against the notion of spontaneous thought and reaction. If this is the case, where do museums fit into the blogosphere?
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Neat topic! The Smithsonian might be a uniquely difficult place to create a "blog mentality" given its "federal-ness" so maybe it represents a worst case scenario? Anyway, should be a good conversation.
I'm not sure I'd agree that that's the "original mission" of blogs. Blogs started out as geek brain dumps, more or less--and there are so many things you can do with the technology and even the concept that I don't think one has to exclude even the Feds based on a mission many blogs don't even fit anyway.
I almost picked this article, by the way--I think Eye Level is a really interesting experiment.
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