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APIs, explained by xkcd

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The New Yorker makes a case for slow design: the patient, cautious, deliberate evolution of a nearly unchanging editoral format over decades.

(via In Praise of Slow Design: Design Observer)

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Peter Gorgels is the manager of the Rijksmuseum’s digital communication, i.e. the corporate website, the online collection and Rijksstudio. Since 2002 he has worked on a lot of award-winning projects for the Rijksmuseum. He is involved as advisor or project manager in practically every digital project like the Rijksmuseum app and the museum’s social media presence. In 2011, he wrote the E-strategy of the Rijksmuseum. He’s always looking for innovative ways to improve the interaction of the audience with the masterpieces of the Rijksmuseum.

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» www.intk.com/en/ideas/peter-gorgels-rijksmuseum

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A CSIRO analysis of Australia’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums (or GLAM industry) has revealed that digital innovation in the sector is inconsistent and isolated. The report provides a roadmap for the industry in order for it to maximise the potential of the digital economy.

Four strategic initiatives from the report:

Making the public part of what we do

Becoming central to community wellbeing

Beyond digitisation – creative reuse

Developing funding for strategic initiatives

» An Innovation Study: Challenges and Opportunities for Australia’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums [PDF 1.24MB]

» CSIRO Press Release

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Last year, at the first Design 4 Social Innovation Conference in Sydney, Penny Hagen gave a Master Class on Building Organisational Co-design capability. The Master Class was based on her work with health, social and education organisations, as well as contributions and input from other practitioners and organisations reflecting on their own experiences.  » Penny Hagen on Building Organisational Co-design Capability 

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Control Bear!

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Sitting down with CEO Martin Källström, it’s clear that the Swedish outfit has taken an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to the second-generation wearable camera. Instead of opting for a new, smaller chassis and other tweaks, the company has concentrated on addressing the three biggest gripes its customers had with the original. First up in that list is the clip used to attach the unit to your clothes, which has been replaced with a flexible mount that can accommodate lapel pins and even tripods.

Second on the list is image quality, and the 5-megapixel sensor from the original has been replaced with a 90-degree, 8-megapixel unit that the company promises offers much better low-light performance. Finally, whereas the original was a USB-only affair, the new model gains WiFi and Bluetooth, enabling you to sync images with your phone and the company’s online service. Speaking of which, while the original Narrative was very much about supplying images for a private journal, the company is hoping that its new social layer will make everything much more, er, social.

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» Engadget: Say hello to the second generation of Narrative’s wearable camera.

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In the television business, there is no such thing as a sure thing. You can have a gold-plated director, a bankable star and a popular concept and still, it’s just a roll of the dice. 

Or is it?

In any business, the ability to see into the future is the killer app, and Netflix may be getting close with “House of Cards.” The series, directed by David Fincher, starring Kevin Spacey and based on a popular British series, is already the most streamed piece of content in the United States and 40 other countries, according to Netflix. The spooky part about that? Executives at the company knew it would be a hit before anyone shouted “action.”

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Mobile M+: NEONSIGNS.HK: An interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs

Presented by M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, “Mobile M+: NEONSIGNS.HK” is an online exhibition that celebrates a key feature of the city’s streetscapes by exploring, mapping and documenting its neon signs.

Alongside curatorially-produced essays, videos, slideshows and artist commissions, over 4,000 photos were submitted by the public from 21 March to 30 June 2014 to collectively create a unique neon map of Hong Kong. The site will remain as a lasting record and examination of Hong Kong’s fast disappearing neon signs.

» NEONSIGNS.HK 探索霓虹

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The Digital Engagement Framework helps you to design the strategies, processes and technologies to systematically engage all stakeholders with your organisation in order to maximise the value you co-create.

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ACMI has produced a long-form, multi-chapter, immersive multi-media site to support their survey exhibition of China’s pre-eminent moving image artist, Yang Fudong.

» ACMI’s Between the Scenes • ACMI’s Yang Fudong survey exhibition 

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With growing frequency, artists and arts organizations are integrating active arts practices into their work, often through collaborations and partnerships. The Audience Involvement Spectrum is a simple framework developed to describe the different ways participatory arts programs work, and the various entry points for participation. This five-stage model illustrates a progression of involvement from “spectating” — in which the audience member plays only a minor role in shaping the artistic experience — to the point at which there is no conventional “audience” at all because every person involved is creating, doing or making art.

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Art Gallery of Ontario curator Sasha Suda and conservator Lisa Ellis discuss an object from the collection – an Ivory Polyptych – as it is prepared for exhibition. 

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PROJECT OMOTE IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN JAPANESE MEDIA ARTIST NOBUMICHI ASAI, MAKEUP ARTIST HIROTO KUWAHARA AND FRENCH DIGITAL IMAGE ENGINEER PAUL LACROIX.

HT Alexis Madrigal http://tinyletter.com/intriguingthings

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Creating Shared Value: It’s the Future

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Technology should require the smallest amount of our attention. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak. Create ambient awareness through different senses. Communicate information without taking the wearer out of their environment or task.

Calm Technology (via overdueloans)

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The New York Times' 96-page internal report on innovation was recently obtained by BuzzFeed. 

The report contains a dire insight into how the newsroom is struggling to adjust to the digital world, and outlines internal recommendations about how to address the challenge of digital disruption.

The report largely focuses on the new wave of digital companies, including Huffington Post, Business Insider, and BuzzFeed.

It calls for the creation of new teams focused on audience development, analytics and strategy, as well as newsroom collaboration with “reader-focused departments on the business side” and prioritizing “digital hiring to help the digital-first transition.”

View the full report here on Scribd.