[Wylug-discuss] National Media Museum

[james riley]

I went to the Media Museum in Bradford yesterday (those of a certain
age will remember it as the Photography Museum, others as Photography,
Film and Television). They've a rather nice exhibit on the internet
(including a nice little game about why distributed networks are more
robust than centralised ones), and they've started an exhibit entitled
"open source". I'd encourage anyone with the sort of interests that
lead to coming on this list to find themselves on floor 7 of the Media
Museum. Particularly if you can fill in a comment form after.

For a start, all the quotes on their timeline wall are from 2011. Two
people are quoted. I've never heard of either. Seems to me that they
did a brainstorming session and quoted each other on it.

Facebook is given as an example of an open, collaborative web project.

Though something has been got right, I think. There's a room with
camera and mic, and they're crowdsourcing a reading of a set text. One
sentence at a time. The boilerplate text outside (too many families to
get inside) seemed to be that they were going for online access and a
CC licence.

Thought I'd bring this to the locals attention. And do check out the
internet exhibition on the ground floor where they used to have the
gift shop. That's cracking.

James R