Présentation - Le mystère du « Voyageur dans le temps des années 1940 » | Le nouveau visage de la surveillance en ligne d’une marque | Museums & the Web | Presentation - The Mystery of the "1940s Time Traveller": The Changing Face of Online Brand Monitoring. D. Harkness, S. Carey & J. Marion.
It’s been a very full week and we’ve heard a lot of the latest and greatest in Web museums. We’re going to talk about a pressing topic in museum technology – Time Travel.
Graph – seismic distribution
We’ll assume you read the paper, but how many people had seen this photo before? It was quite the sensation last year, and continued up until very recently.
“ Really put the town of Bralorne on the Map.” “Just to show you where it is on the map” On the edge of the Coastal Mountain range It’s about 275 miles to Vancouver (and one of the most beautiful drives in Canada)
An unsophisticated system, but as Kaushik and Breakenridge point out, there isn’t a good system for Social Web metrics. Unfortunately, if you don’t already have a system in place you end up stuck with that system. Biggest tools were Google Alerts and BackType Alerts I couldn’t find Twitter data before Jan 1, 2011.
When this really took off… forgetomori.com and gizmodo.com
Graph – seismic distribution
It was actually when it was “written in the history books” of the Internet, as it were, on Wikipedia from January 8 th , 2011. There are a couple of forum postings that pop up after this date, but the comments are “ya, seen it, old news”.
Another spike related to the 1928 Time Traveller, and the end of the virality on January 8 with Wikipedia
Spike in October which was attributed to the 1928 Charlie Chaplin video of a woman supposedly holding a cell phone.
Visitors to a Copenhagen art gallery spotted the extraordinary likeness between a soap and candle maker in an 1835 portrait painting and the 31-year-old star. 'The resemblance was so uncanny that we were joking about how it made us think it was some kind of publicity stunt,' student Johanna Franzen wrote in an email to the Washington Post. The student, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was visiting the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark when they had their double-take.