Link Love: 10/29/2010

• This was the last week of the Smithsonian’s 30-day American Archives Month blogathon—check out posts on sister SI blogs on how collections at the Smithsonian are prepared for digitization and more archives-inspired Halloween costumes.

• If Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island were all one big island, would rent still be so high? What NYC would’ve looked like had a 1916 plan to fill in its waterways been followed through.

• The Smithsonian’s first iPad app, "Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers," was recently released.

• Apparently, 2010 is the year of mobile, social media, augmented reality, location-based services, gesture-based computing, and the semantic web (at least for museums, archives, and libraries . . .). Check out more museum trends in the Horizon Report.

• It’s finally gone: Sony has retired the Cassette Walkman. I wonder when the portable CD player will kick the bucket?

• The Smithsonian American Art Museum has teamed up with D.C.’s Gallaudet University, the first school for advanced education of deaf and hard of hearing students in the world, to create the award-winning Art Signs—ASL-led tours of the museum’s exhibitions and collections.

• October 27^th was the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. In honor of the day, check out Harvard Loeb Music Library staff talk about the pleasures and challenges of audiovisual preservation.