Steal This Dichotomy: Notes from the National Museum Publishing Seminar 2012
When it comes to digital art-book publishing, it would be easy for a print-oriented publisher to steal that old joke about the weather: everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it. But...
View ArticleNow That You’ve Launched …
So you’ve got your Amazing Digital Project™ up and running. Maybe some of your team has moved on to the Next Amazing Digital Project™. But you’ve been given responsibility for dealing with a just a few...
View ArticleIt’s the Audience, Stupid–Digital Book World 2013
Conferences are often emotional sine waves, oscillating between this is so great I can’t believe I’m getting paid to come here and why am I here? This is garbage. I should skip the afternoon sessions...
View ArticleThe Coming Hybrid Era: Tools of Change 2013 and The Future of Art Book...
The week before last provided an enlightening conference convergence, as the annual Tools of Change meeting coincided with a panel deep beneath the New York Public Library’s main building. The latter,...
View ArticleBut Can the Unicorn Publish? Digital Humanities and Museum Publishing
One of the nice things about being a digital pack rat is that you never know what you’re going to find in the “stuff to read later” in your Dropbox. As one of my Arbitrary Calendar Change Day’s...
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Workflow-go-go: Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ Verso magazine
This article was co-written by Kris Thayer and Diane Richard of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts No blue lines. No red pens. In this digital landscape, your best tool is a willingness to embrace...
View ArticleFound Horizons?
America’s quadrennial pretend-affair with soccer/fútbol came to a close this summer with the final of the World Cup. Now I’m about as close to the idealized American fan of soccer as you can be, but...
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10 Reasons Why You Should be Thinking About HTML for Digital Publications and...
Justin Putney is a partner at Ajar Productions and the creator of in5, an InDesign to HTML5 export tool that supports folio overlays and animations. With the open source Baker Framework or similar...
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Why Museum Publishers Should Care about the Amazon-Hachette Battle
It’s not for the reason you think. (I know it’s social-media boilerplate, but these REALLY are my thoughts and don’t represent my colleagues at the Met Museum or the institution itself. Or any sentient...
View ArticleLinking the Museum Digital
This week I’m highlighting three very different discussions of digital practice in the museum. Did someone say technology and theory and museums? Medium—for my non-profit money, the best...
View ArticleTimes ergo sum
Is the increasing digital reality of museums any more real now that the New York Times has picked it up twice in a week? Growing up in the DC area with New-York-born parents it was easy to think that...
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