This week's best things
Icelandic horses, the fallout from the cyber attack on the British Library, AR-assisted learning, the danger of digitising everything, the evolution of language, and the best of Bob Mortimer.
Ash Mann
Remote self-service
Self-service grocery shopping in the north of Sweden, and lessons for the cultural sector
This week's best things
New ways of interacting with history, AI-powered dance, what the 1920s can teach us about hope, the rewards of beta testing, 15% solutions, and someone discovering Radiohead for the first time.
Hyper-specific conversations, and chaotic collaborations
An update on some of the conversations I've been a part of in the collaborative R&D project, Venues of the Future.
100 days to the Digital Works Conference
Today marks 100 days until the first Digital Works Conference which will be held in Leeds, at the Leeds City Museum.
This week's best things
The internet gets weird again, what your users are doing on your product pages, shifts in social media dynamics, 14 predictions for 2024, and a Portishead cover.
Self-sabotage. Why don't we prioritise outcomes over outputs and process?
A culture of low trust, and a lack of clarity, has lead to an overemphasis on process and outputs. This is harming all of us that work in the cultural sector.
Cultural website, review of the week: #009 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Some thoughts on the website for Amsterdam's museum for modern and contemporary art and design
This week's best things
Happy new year. Insights on reading patterns, analysis of shifting behaviour on social media, Google research on AI, thoughts on the New York Times vs OpenAI, hackers, and a library of the future
"Surely" it "can't be that complicated"
Coverage of a recent Arts Council-British Library digital project is symptomatic of many of the leadership issues and lack of understanding that exists around digital projects in the sector.