"This Is a Culture and Team We Want to Create": An Interview with Andrea Ledesma

Sometimes asking a lot of questions is more important than always having the answers.

After the App Is Gone: Museum-Field Conversation Post Bird

Museum professionals are despairing about conversations without a certain social media platform. But is the issue bigger than just one app?

Links of the Week: June 14, 2024: The AI-Age Museum Career

Technology for museums is about more than AI (though AIs probably would disagree).

The Cultural and Nonprofit Sector Technology Journey—An Interview with Matt Morgan

Museum Technology Careers are a Mix of Intention and Accident

Links of the Week: April 5, 2024: Tech Tok

The ban-or-not TikTok controversy just shows how scattershot our approach to technology is.

The Story of Technological Progress is Not a Given: A Review of Power and Progress

The cultural sector has to change its ideas about progress and technology.

Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect

Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.

Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes

How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?

Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?

What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?

Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System

Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.

Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.

Links of the Week: December 15, 2023: Collapsagideon Time

Is there room for different approaches to—or even understandings of—societal collapse?

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

The Analytics and Intuition Dilemma for Museum Workers

Data and analytics are important for museums, but intuition and genius need to be democratized, too.