An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work,
Blogs
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast.
Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February piece in The New York Review of Books is the most readable discussion
Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish
Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I'm a research fellow, incidentally) points to Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki "for sharing, discussing, arguing
Briefly Noted for February 25, 2009
Along with "the perfect is the enemy of the good," "release early and often" is something of a mantra around CHNM, especially when it comes to software and web
New Year's Top Ten Roundup
Last month on the Digital Campus podcast, Mills, Dan, and I offered our take on the top ten stories of 2008 and our predictions for the biggest stories of 2009. As we readily