21 May
2009
21 May
'09
9:54 a.m.
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:04 -0600, Richard wrote:
In article
<p06240806c63a69751ede(a)[192.168.1.199]>9]>,
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
Why bother? You can pick up el-cheapo MP3 players for pennies these
days. Unless you want to get people into the classic computing spirit
with a classic MP3 player (the original Rio can't be far off on-topic by
now...)
Richard (legalize at xmission.com) wrote:
Well, for starters I'd probably get some used RIOs off ebay that are
preloaded with the MP3. Supply your own headphones? I don't want to
have grungy earbuds that people have to use. I was thinking of creating an audio tour that
people could listen to
on their portable MP3 players?
That's actually an interesting idea, but how would they get the tour
loaded? They'd just about have to do it prior to visiting. Maybe if it was a series of MP3 files, one for each
'station', then
you could skip past bits that aren't interesting to you. Static
museums with printed text placards are kinda boring to me, particular
with computers unless you're a real geek. But hey, that's what most
of the CHM is, considering that visible storage takes up most of the
floor space.
Infrared headphones, and a player at every exhibit?
With computer graphics, its ultimately about
interactivity, but
everyone's gotta start somewhere and a static exhibit with
interpretation is where most of us start. I have a web site, but I'm
not happy with the CMS software I'm currently using (DotNetNuke), so
I'm looking for something better. That's why I haven't invested much
time in putting information into it. I have an alternate system I'm
evaluating but haven't had a chance to get much further than obtain
the software.
There are enough CMSes out there that I'm sure you can find one that you
like. DotNetNuke scares me a bit - from what I can tell, it's the
frankly rather horrible PHPNuke system rewritten in .NET and only
running on MS Windows servers - a recipe for disaster!
All of this will be colocated with my friend's
arcade game collection,
so realistically all the boring stuff listed above will be riding on
the coattails of the free arcade :-)
Sounds great!
Gordon