Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere
March 30th, 2007 by Jim SpadacciniOur paper summarizing the findings from the first museum blog survey is now available on the Museums and the Web 2007 website. Seb Chan from Powerhouse Museum and I conducted the survey back in December. For our presentation at the conference in San Francisco, we’ll discuss what these results mean and take another look at museum blogs to see how things have changed even over the last few months. For those of you attending, we’ll also be having a meet up of museum bloggers following the session. See you in San Francisco.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Just getting a chance to go through the paper, some really good stuff in there… I’m hoping to refer to some of this during our workshop and also send people your way for the session.
One quick note on something Justin noticed in the numbers in section 5: it seems like Technorati maybe has some problems reporting on our “combined” blogs, probably because we’re spread over 6 blogs and it’s hard for their software to accurately count them…? Here’s the url I’m looking at: http://technorati.com/blogs/blogs.walkerart.org … Weird. Did you run across anything else like that in your research?
(also, Brent is behind me whining that his last name is “Gustafson”, but I say leave it in. He probably mis-typed it on the survey.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Nate,
The Walker should be listed in the Technorati rankings. I’ll talk with Seb and we’ll look into the omission. Sorry that we mised that. It may have been as you suggested an issue in the “combined” blogs. I know we’re going to take a look to see how the “top 15″ blogs have changed in the last three months–for our presentation–so we’ll certainly include your blog in that. We’ll see you in San Francisco.
Jim
March 30th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Thanks Jim, and no worries. Looking forward to San Fran!
March 31st, 2007 at 7:18 am
Well done, Jim!
April 9th, 2007 at 11:16 am
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