On 05/28/2005 04:23 PM, amalyah keshet wrote:
"...The exchange sounded a lot more like MTV than Modern Art 101, but
...it had a few things to recommend it. It was free. It didn't involve
the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a
nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an
unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA,
downloaded onto her own iPod...
...Specifically, these museum guides are an outgrowth of a recent
podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record
narrations of their travels - walking on the beach, wandering through
the French Quarter - and upload them onto the Internet for others to
enjoy. In that spirit, the creators of the unauthorized guides to the
Modern have also invited anyone interested to submit his or her own
tour for inclusion on the project's Web site, mod.blogs.com/art_mobs
<http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs>..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/arts/design/28podc.html
How long before we see the new business model: a community web site for
user-supplied tour uploads and free redistribution (ad-supported of
course) of audio tours for museums, tourist destinations, etc.?
It would be nice to see a museum web site offer this service for its
visitors. Was it on Gail Durbin's list of 50 ways for a museum site to
be two-way? We had a little system crash last week and I haven't had a
chance to read it yet. Or is anyone already doing this? I have always
hoped that our PocketMuseum project would be used not just on the
handhelds we supply, but also on visitors' own web-enabled handhelds.
But there are a lot more mp3 players out there than web-enabled
handhelds (for now). This would be a much quicker path to getting
visitors to take advantage of their own devices.
--Matt
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