I’ve had the opportunity to talk a lot about the Digital Media Lab to both patrons and professional colleagues in recent weeks. Whenever I start explaining why we created the space and the context in which we did so, I always find myself starting with incredible growth of YouTube and digital video. Even though the [...]
Categories: Digital Media Lab, Social Media, Videos
For the past year and a half I’ve been working on creating a new Digital Media Lab at mpow. We opened the lab a few months and this morning I’m giving a presentation at NSLS about the entire process of getting the lab up and running. My presentation will include the following:
What is the Digital [...]
Categories: Digital Media Lab, Presentations, Technology
Tagged: nsls
The Digital Media Lab I mentioned awhile ago is finally open to the public and I am very happy with how it turned out. MPOW now has a newly remodeled space featuring four shiny new Macs that are loaded with software goodies. We also have other equipment including two new scanners and an M-audio USB [...]
Categories: Digital Media Lab, Libraries, Technology
Recently, I read an interesting article in Wired Magazine about the rise of the netbooks. The article, “The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Bigtime,” talks about this realization that people don’t want more out of their laptops – they want less. Most people will prefer to have a smaller, lightweight device that [...]
Categories: Digital Media Lab, Libraries, Technology
