Web Highlights

NMC Emeritus Board Member Jean Paul Jacob shared with us that during this week, senior journalist Ethevaldo Siqueira is discussing the 2010 NMC Horizon Report  on Brazil's CBN radio show.

It was pretty close to the time of year last month when many of you were heading out for the holidays, so you may have missed the results of our December 2009 Two Minute Survey on Digital Cameras and Photosharing that were posted before the holidays. Given the popularity of modern cameras, we expect quite a few people might be using new ones on 2010!

(image credit: Flickr CC Licensed Photo by Burnt Pixel)

Armed with only the crudest of tools, our NMC Archaeology Team has been sifting the far reaches of the office file server and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to compile as complete a history of the NMC web site as modern web science would allow. Or that we had time to do!

You can find the full findings at http://www.nmc.org/about/history/web.

The main stratigraphic horizons we have been able to preserve on our own servers include:

Last week we opened our most recent Two Minute Survey where we wanted to know about the social media spaces you focus on and preferences for getting information from NMC.   (image credit: Flickr CC Licensed Photo by Matt Hamm)

We can tell you something about the very near future (October 27-29, 2009), when we invite you to take the longer view during the 2009 NMC Symposium on the Future.... here is our new video teaser for this event

How should we make this future?

While in Monterey for the 2009 NMC Summer Conference, we had the opportunity to video a short interview with  Tom Bray (of the University of Michgan Digital Media Commons), who has been active in the NMC from the very beginning of the organization.

Tom and his colleagues Katherine Weider (Art & Design), Dan Fessahazion (Digital Media Commons) and Zack Jacobsen-Weaver (Art & Design) had won a 2009 Michigan Emmy Award in "Advanced Media Arts/Entertainment" for their work on the Animation Station, a fascinating portable studio that allows anyone to creation stop-motion digital videoanimation using real objects and markers.

originally blogged at http://cogdogblog.com/3764

Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Heck, it's time to start thinking about 2010.

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. I resisted using the title of "report card" ;-)