links for 2006-10-09

www.steve.museum – Home

social tagging of art museum collections. steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data and engaging in discussion in order to improve acess to works of art.

(tags: folksonomy tagging art museums museum metadata social visualization tags culture)
Verdant Magazine: Smarter Choices for Better Living

Verdant is a sophisticated consumer magazine (online now, print to launch in ’07) dedicated to covering all aspects of eco-friendly living-from design, art and fashion trends to news summaries and authoritative product reports.

(tags: magazine green eco magazines sustainability environmental marketing media)
An Elephant Crackup? – New York Times

when do we realize our elephants are us?

(tags: elephants pachyderms society violence psychology kindness love extinction environment family community)

Emily Davidow