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Cat Break
Via boingboing.net
Dec 2011
This week’s edition goes out to the Walker New Media department, who built this site: Classic HTTP server error messages… in cats.
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Museum Analytics
Via museum-analytics.org
Dec 2011
Which museum has the most Twitter followers? The most engaging Facebook posts? This site aims to track it all, by watching the online life of some 3,000 museums.
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Google Mapping Disaster
Via googleblog.blogspot.com
Dec 2011
Having driven well over 25,000 miles with its 360-degree Street View cameras, Google announces that it has completed documentation of the destruction from last March’s earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.
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Notorious S.I.R.I.
Via youtu.be
Dec 2011
For Music Hack Day 2011 last week, Berlin-based web developer Robert Böhnke created a hack that has the iPhone’s voice-activation interface Siri laying down lines from Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize.”
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Tweet Seats?
Via latimes.com
Dec 2011
Some performing arts organizations, including operas, ballets and Broadway theaters, have been encouraging live-tweeting from their events, presumably as a way to attract, young wired audiences.
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Idea Hub
Olga Viso
Dec 2011
As the Walker’s name signals, we’re a center, bringing together pursuits from commissioning performances and collecting art to convening discussions about culture. Acknowledging our mission to investigate the questions that shape us as individuals, cultures, and communities, I’m excited to introduce our new website, an online hub for ideas about art, both inside the Walker and beyond.
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Gaming the Garden
Scott Donaldson
Jul 2011
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is among the newest places people can explore with SCVNGR, a rapidly growing location-based mobile app. Writer and former marketing intern Scott Donaldson gives the scoop on how it works—and why the Walker is using it in this urban landmark and elsewhere.
Snap a photo of yourself “holding” the spoon in front of Spoonbridge and Cherry: + 3 points. Dream up a new title…
