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[Note: TAM congratulates Larry Francell]

Francell receiving prestigious award
Alpine Avalanche – Special to the Avalanche

http://www.alpineavalanche.com/articles/2008/03/27/news/news07.txt

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Down With the Newseum! We don't need a gilded home for 6,214 journalism artifacts.
By Jack Shafer, Slate, 2/7/2008

http://www.slate.com/id/2183936/nav/tap3/

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'Bob' the turtle back at Fort Worth museum after months on the lam
By Susan Tallant, Special to the Star-Telegram, 4/3/2008

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/561729.html

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We Tell Stories: Thinking Inside New Boxes
By Nina Simon, Museum 2.0, 4/25/2008

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/we-tell-stories-thinking-inside-new.html

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Inside the Bush library, view to a legacy
By Brendan McKenna, The Dallas Morning News, 3/15/2008

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-bushdesign_15nat.ART.North.Edition1.460ed6b.html

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[Note: Find out how museums around the country are exploring ways to gather data about their visitors.]

Museums Refine the Art of Listening
By Carol Vogel, The New York Times, 3/12/2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12visitors.html?ref=artsspecial

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TECH TALK – NOTES ON TECHNOLOGY

Saving the jewels: At libraries and museums across the country, neglect and a lack of money threaten relics of American history
By Lisa Gray, Houston Chronicle, 4/2/2008

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5666513.html

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[Note: an interesting article about marketing your museum online.]

Killer Statue — Psyched About the Site!
By Dan Fost, The New York Times, 3/12/2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/
12social.html?_r=1&ex=1363&oref=slogin

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[Note: Check out this article about crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation.]

Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?
By Nina Simon, Museum 2.0, 4/16/2008

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/brooklyn-clicks-with-crowd-what-makes.html

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[Note: This article is about a software development system called AIR that will power applications that merge the Internet and the PC.]

Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web
By John Markoff, The New York Times, 2/25/2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/technology/

25adobe.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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ARKANSAS GONE WIRELESS

After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: "California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."

One week later, The Baxter Bulletin in Arkansas reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 yards in a corn field near Mtn. Home, Bubba Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Arkansas had already gone wireless."

JUST in case you doubt the name of the paper ... ;) www.baxterbulletin.com
from DOWNTOWN Mountain View, Arkansas.

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