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Great copyright documentary: Good Copy Bad Copy
Good Copy Bad Copy (Denmark, 2007) is an amazing short documentary about copyright & remixing culture.
(Also, it features Yochai Benkler in a great video interview at Re:Publica 2007 Wizards of OS 4 (Thanks, Thomas!), which is so much less blurry more professionally produced than the snippets (1, 2, 3, 4) I shot with Thomas […]
Photosynth: Creating 3D images from tagged pictures taken off the web
This demo by Blaise Aguera y Arcas may be one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen being done with digital images. (He works at Microsoft Live Labs. There you can also get a first experimental glimpse at the technology here - it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox 2.0.0.4, though.)
From the TED website: […]
Culture Clash: Busy Economy vs Burst Economy
Anne Zelenka recently wrote a great busy vs bursty manifesto on Web Worker Daily, comparing the “busyness economy” (aka traditional) with the “burst economy” (aka the web):
There’s a culture clash inside office buildings where workers from the busyness economy sit in cubicles next to workers from the burst economy — web workers. Yes, that’s right: […]
A Swarm of Angels: Thousands not hundreds
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I was thrilled to hear that A Swarm of Angels (the amazing collaborative community-based film project lead by Matt Hanson) is hitting the 1000+ members mark: This also means its time to freeze membership for a little while to guarantee for the necessary stability. Phase 2 out of 5 accomplished!
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daily link postings: good or annoying?
As you may have noticed, I just included my daily links from del.icio.us. On one hand, I think it might add an extra bit of white noise in your RSS feed. On the other hand, I kinda like how it takes blogs back to what they initially were (or at least how this one started […]
Miliband: “We can: politics for the Facebook generation”
David Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, maybe one of the few next-generation politicians who just get it. At the Google Zeitgeist 07 (Robert has links to the videos) conference he gave a speech titled “We can: politics for the Facebook generation“. Miliband makes some really good points. (You could […]
Fundraising model: Weblogs for a good cause
Just stumbled upon something at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which I hadn’t noticed before: RSF offers weblog hosting. For a monthly fee (5,90 or 14,90 Euros depending on the plan) you get an ad-free blog and RSF’s promise that they won’t work with the police in restrictive countries by giving out your details. (Like Yahoo […]
Preserving your digital memories, explained by Library of Congress
As David Weinberger points out in his (so far great) book Everything is Miscellaneous, the way librarians used to order information is pretty much obsolete in the digital world.
(Just for clarification, it’s not the librarians’ fault, it’s just the way the meatspace works: One physical object can only occupy one space at the time, and […]
Second Life Machinima
Machinima, a technique (and style) for producing movies using the 3D engines of computer games, just got a little bit richer: Shot in the virtual world of Second Life (SL) by SL resident Lainy Voom, “Tale from Midnight City” is an amazing piece of art. It’s dark, it’s beautiful, and it’s fully CC-licensed.
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U.S. election candidates’ websites: all the same
I haven’t been following up the U.S. online election campaigns closely enough. Just had a quick glance at some of the candidates’ websites. From what I’ve checked (mostly the Democrats) so far, I have to say I’m amazed: Those candidates’ websites all look practically the same, from the general structure to a near-identical intro screen […]