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Pier pressure

After much pressure during a weekend in Suffolk we headed down for our annual visit to Southwold Pier. I've written about the joys of Hunkins games before, but this year the kids imaginations went really wild. SO wild that we couldn't go into the the 'deep sea experience' which introduces you to the wilds of the North Sea and radioactive waste. We didn't even get a s far as going under when the girls leapt out of the box crying. We did manage Hunkin's quick holiday from your armchair, where you go on a sustainable and environmentally sound virtual holiday experience and the Expressive Photobooth. None of it is to be missed if you have a lot of one pound coins and some time to kill in East Anglia.

Folksonomy

Its always good when ideas come together from lots of sources. On the plane over I read Bruce Sterling's Wired article on Folksonomy. Then one of the most interesting workshops at Museum and the Web 2005 was one on 'Cataloguing by Crowd' by Susan Chun from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The idea is that you can use the network to do your keyword cataloguing through games such as ESP. It will send shudders down the spines of museum information architects, but may mean you actually end up with the keywords that people use to search.

MMW wins awards

Making the Modern World online won the 'Best of the Web' for Museums and the Web 2005 in Vancouver. We won Best Educational Use and Best Overall Museum Site. All in all the Science Museum came away from the conference looking pretty good, two awards, Mike and Dave did a great presentation on Dana Centre and I gave a paper that went down well for one of the opening session on making MMW with curators.