Jeff Guin

"In the wake of the reported senseless cutting of century-old acacia trees lining the national highway of the historic town of Guindulman, advocates of Boholanos’rich socio-cultural and historical heritage have come up with a plan of conducting mapping of sites, for purposes of preservation or restoration." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

for the most part, it is not small business owners themselves committing the infringements. Though very gifted in their areas of business, they are not exactly Web developers, much less copyright experts. Instead, they are good people who trusted the wrong company to develop their site and are now left holding the bag. It’s a sad tale and its one that isn’t always easily avoided, but there are a few mistakes that small business makes when having someone building their site that can make these situations much more likely. With that in mind, here’s some of the most common mistakes I see businesses make when building their Web presence, whether through a third party or themselves. - Jeff Guin

Where are you in La.? - rowlikeagirl

Louisiana are you kidding me?? - VAL D.

Natchitoches. Still coming down! - Jeff Guin

Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city. - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city. Italy's culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports. Among the ruins visible on the search engine's free mapping service are the town's statues, temples and theatres. The city was buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 and was not discovered until the 18th Century. The volcanic debris preserved many of the city's buildings, frescos, silverware, mosaics and other artefacts. "Giving people a chance to take a virtual stroll through Pompeii will give an extraordinary boost to Italian tourism," Ansa quoted Mario Resca of the culture ministry's heritage promotion department as saying. The Google Maps service, launched in 2007, provides panoramic street-level views of more than 100 cities around the world. It also includes the ancient heritage site of Stonehenge. - Jeff Guin

"Regong Art was listed in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind in the fouth session of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting held in Abu Dhabi in UAE, . It sit at the 9th position on all the included 22 items from China." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"It was true: the Samurai show had a far higher ratio of male viewers than the nearby rooms containing European paintings, higher than I’d ever seen in any museum. So that got me thinking: What other shows could the Met put on to bring the male demographic in?" - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"I was in a bookstore the other day and exlaimed to my kids “LOOK! Lego is doing architecture!” “Yeah,” they said. ”We know.” They are huge Lego fans, though their tastes run more to Star Wars or Knights or Space Police. They only get excited about the Empire State Building when King Kong is on top of it in a 1933 b&w movie, and even then, only if I serve popcorn. Later, while they were making their own Christmas lists, they arrived in the kitchen with sly smiles on their faces. ”So which did you like better?” they inquired. Slyly. ”The landmarks or the architecture?” I asked for a clarification on what the difference was. It seems Landmarks rise high in the sky and Architecture has the name of a well-known and much-revered architect (who rates a ® after his name) attached to it." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"DID American whalers discover the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook? That is the intriguing question a crack team of maritime archaeologists, divers and marine scientists hope to answer when they sail tomorrow for a remote reef 450 kilometres off the coast of Queensland." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

Museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Devotees would like to attract new audiences, but must balance the desire to make newbies feel welcome with authentic demonstration of core values, beliefs, and practices. - Jeff Guin

""The recycling of urban territories is an integral and necessary part of the life of cities," reads the introduction to the book's global section. It also stresses that ongoing adaptation is essential even in cities "threatened by the dangers of flooding and coastal erosion." Such as, yes, San Francisco. We're one of the dozen "water cites" examined in terms of how it fits the land and adapts to its setting. But we don't receive as much attention as such models as Barcelona or Amsterdam - a tacit reminder, alas, that the Bay Area these days works harder at preservation than innovation." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"And, it turns out, NCPTT is involved in all sorts of preservation—of landscapes, cemeteries, ancient rock art, mountain roads and more. Its Website lists scores—maybe hundreds, even—of different projects, using photos, videos, podcasts and every other modern method to demonstrate. There's research into low-altitude aerial surveys employing high resolution thermal imaging (tried at New Philadelphia, Ill., the first town platted and legally registered by an African American in the United States). There’s a course on the plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and insulation systems in historic buildings. You can learn about computer analysis of ancient rock art, preserving stone walls along highways, and enough other projects to keep a student of American heritage occupied for an awful long time. And thinking ahead, NCPTT also tackled disaster preparation, helipng managers protect their resources should flood or fire threaten. Sponsored Link So, for working hard... more... - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"A historic Nova Scotia church is about to be reborn in another country. The 200-year-old All Saints Anglican Church in Granville Centre, Annapolis County, is being dismantled and will be trucked to Louisiana, where it will be resurrected as a Baptist church. It will replace a church destroyed during hurricane Katrina, an Anglican church official confirmed Monday. "We were told by the contractor that it’s going to replace a building that was destroyed by Katrina in the southern United States," Rev. Canon Ken Vaughan, with the Annapolis parish of the Anglican Church, said in an interview." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet