I think my fundamental discomfort is with that monetization. I think that modern cultural production should be incompatible with our current economy.

You are right that my assumption is just that: an assumption. A cultural institution with a well -developed social media presence could use Steemit and pay someone a living wage. I worry that they transitional

Thanks to you all for your comments! Thank you @remlaps and @hansikhouse for reading our posts. Thank you @kenfinkel for getting us in a position to have this conversation. I have a lot I want to respond

the vast majority of academic, social, and cultural work barely pass by more than a few pairs of eyes and are actually drains on existing resources. This just seems harsh.

Lots of hard questions, @dduquette! But also some great insights! And memes!

Would love to have you stay in Philly, @jfeagan, but I think you make some convincing points. It seems like one more checkmark in the pro-St. Pete column is that I suspect there may be fewer public history

Great summary, @kenfinkel! Lots of different directions, but I think you pulled out many of the common threads.

A+ use of that first GIF! I've been wrestling with the fact that this grant could easily be a white elephant: a funding source that costs more than its worth. For instance, who would award this grant?

The other local equivalent is the PhillyPass, a limited-time pass that gets tourists into many museums, but that doesn't engender the sustained engagement I think we're hoping for here. @chelseareed's

I don't know of any innovative examples, but museums have traditionally operated outside the market economy. By identifying an object as worthy of protection, it was withdrawn from the market; its value

I like all of these ideas, @chelseareed! Do you know the status of that Coltrane project?

This was such a good day! Thanks, @gvgktang and @jfeagan for organizing it! RIP Storify, but here's the #pubcomm18 on Twitter provides a few snapshots of what the day was like!

Yeah! I saw incredible crowds on the Strawberry Mansion Bridge when they had it there. The question is how to keep connecting with the audience after the happy hour has passed.

There are easy things to define as public record: government publications, works of art and literature in the public domain. You are right, however that beyond that it gets tricky. I also think you are

Best/Worst pun yet, @dduquette!

I sure hope some archivists are collecting the public responses to this move! Sounds like a great case study. I am a little skeptical about the organization continuing as a volunteer organization. We've

That's the fundamental challenge with archives, isn't it? To figure out how to collect everything and yet not run out of space and be able to use everything you have. Never an easy decision! I think you

It's also possible that they were able to raise more from this scheme than if they'd sold each book for market value. The lottery is America's biggest fundraiser for a reason!

Hey, that website's pretty cool! Who would be the audience for the Golden Record of today? I suspect that the American public was the real audience for the first one, right?

What kind of competition are you thinking?