Archive | May, 2006
Creative Commons

Creative Commons

TweetRecently, photographs of mine were used for ambiguous commercial purposes without permission. They were used for a university prospectus. With universities transforming more and more into Big corporations, I am on the one hand cynical about the indiscriminate use of pretty pictures to sell university degrees as commodities, especially when the images in question bear [...]

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Global Museum

TweetIt’s time to get less precious about making promouncements and devolve to comment and observation. For many years now, I have enjoyed reading the heritage news website Global Museum. It is the only vaguely representative news website for museum, archaeological and other heritage-related stories, serious, funny, weird and fascinating that I know of. In today’s [...]

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