Here is my last post for the evening. I’ve already discussed museums and taxonomy. This website from the Smithsonian wraps up both thoughts:
Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution’s HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things. This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
Tagging, or creating categories, or the taxonomy/folksonomy idea. Basically people creating and sharing their own indexing and categorizing of websites, images, and blog postings. This article provides a helpful overview of the subject:
alexandrasamuel.com » Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging
Here is an example of the read/write web coming out into the real world. Podcasters making their own museum tours and providing them online:
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour - New York Times
The Internet Archives, and its large inventory of classic films is an invaluable resource. Ethan used a couple of the cold war era bomb-prep films to spice up his recent school project, and they were a big hit.
Practicalities and Promises of Digital Portfolios is a blog in Apple’s Digital Campus Exchange. There doesn’t seem to be much here yet, but hopefully there will be some good stuff posted. Here is the rss link which may save you a whole lot of registration hassles to get to the blog through the front door.
Adam Curry was reviewing the downloads for his podcast a couple of weeks ago, and discovered that only a small portion of his listeners were using an iPodder-type client. It seems most listeners were getting their content manually.
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