Raspberry Pi 3D Exhibits Orphan Works

I posted an article on Australian Picture Postcards this week - it gives a bit of background to the collection and development of the use of photographs on these cards in Australia.



Rasberry pi
- this looks amazing - a small $25 computer which is credit card size. It has lots of potential for museum programs as it runs on linux and is pre-loaded with scratch. It runs off a mobile phone power cord and can be plugged into computer and TV displays. purchase info

Nice Article/Tutorial by Eric Bidelman - Audio Video Capture without the plugins
... HTML5 has brought a surge of access to device hardware. Geolocation (GPS), the Orientation API (accelerometer), WebGL (GPU), and the Web Audio API (audio hardware) are perfect examples. These features are ridiculously powerful, exposing high level JavaScript APIs that sit on top of the system's underlying hardware capabilities. Many people recognised the need to be able to access native devices on the web, but that led everyone putting together a new spec. W3C finally decided to form a working group. Their sole purpose? Make sense of the madness! The Device APIs Policy (DAP) Working Group has been tasked to consolidate + standardize the plethora of proposals.

Eric's tutorial covers some history of its development and introduces a new API, navigator.getUserMedia(), which allows web apps to access a user's camera and microphone. see tutorial

Twitter has sold a bunch of old tweets
... to a firm called DataSift, which will analyze them for marketing purposes. see Mashable article

Museums love teenagers, but only if they are in uniform
- this article was a bit of bad Museum related publicity in the Guardian for the Salford Museum. It was based on their decision to throw out two teenagers "for their own safety" because they'd gone without an adult - The Gauardian states ... I don't for one minute believe the museum's action was prompted by concern for any child. If that were the case, why would they propel two girls into the streets of a busy town to wander across roads all on their own among total strangers? And sadly Salford isn't the only museum to discriminate against young people; many have similar bans. full article

This is a very cool project covered by Wired Magazine
- Paris Artist Collective uses stolen map of underground tunnels to access buildings & repair cultural artifacts - see Wired article

Smithsonian museums use 3D printing to share exhibits
... but would u go to gallry to see photos of art works however there are questions as to whether the public will warm to 3D copies in favour of the original objects - New Scientist article

Copyright - Dealing With Orphan works
- this was a nice article by Martin Brassell on the current copyright consultation exercise and its provisions to address the problems associated with ‘orphan works’ – those without a recognised owner. This article summarises the key arguments for change and the questions which arise from it. see article

Infographic
- Did you know that every 60 seconds Twitter sees (on average) 175,000 new tweets? Or that over that same time period, Pinterest receives 1,090 visitors, LinkedIn absorbs 7,610 searches and Flickr users upload 3,125 photos? see infographic

Dr Who Monopoly set anyone?
Bueller? limited edition to celebrate 50th anniversary - can I resist the temptation? - see