museumblogs.org : A directory and blog for museums
May 24th, 2006 by Jim Spadaccini
We’re happy to announce that museumblogs.org is up and running. Over the last couple of months, off and on, we’ve been working on putting the site together. The original idea came from our Survey of Museum Blogs, the follow Up, and numerous conversations and ideas that came out of the Museums and Web conference. (We posted some of those ideas here, the Walker’s New Media Initiatives Blog posted about it here with numerous comments.)
The Welcome post on museumblogs.org explains more, but briefly, the idea behind Museum Blogs create an open space that brings together the museum blogosphere, while making all of our efforts more visible.
Take a look around and please tell us what you think. We’re looking for people who might be interested in participating on the museumblog.org site, by blogging or adding/editing sites in the directory. Just let us know.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:30 am
[...] We finally carved out the time to make some very necessary changes to the Museum Blogs directory and aggregator. The site is a customized WordPress application with quite a bit of additional coding to make it all work. We’ve added pagination, integrated a Google Co-op search, and we have greatly improved the “auto aggregator.” The site now can handle RSS 1.0 and 2.0, along with Atom syndication. This major improvement in syndication has increased the number of posts in the site, there are now nearly 10,000. That means there are nearly 10,000 links to other museum blogs! We hope that this helps improve the authority of the all of the 118 blogs in the site. Afterall, that’s why we built the directory last May. render({page_title: “New and improved Museum Blogs directory”, page_url:”http://www.ideum.com/blog/2007/02/16/new-and-improved-museum-blogs-directory/”}); [...]