mash-up
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 […]
Movie clip: “The Worst Movies Ever (in 6 categories)”
There’s some explicit video and audio in it. Or at least I think there’s supposed to be. That said, my deepest respect to the poor fellows who watched the Worst Movie Ever candidates. I hope you won’t suffer any permanent damage.
(via Table of Malcontents)
CBS gets it right: “It’s arrogant for any media company to assume [that consumers come to us].”
“We can’t expect consumers to come to us,” says Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive. “It’s arrogant for any media company to assume that.”
As Jeff Harvis puts it: The smartest media quote of the year. And it shows clearly that CBS goes through with a “smarter-than-most strategy for a distributed media economy.”
Judging by […]
Joost: Social TV as a campaigning tool?
Joost, the new social TV project by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrøm and Janus Friis, has just left the closed beta phase and has recently switched to (for lack of a better term) open beta.
One of the things announced is that there’s a developer kit in the making, which will allow hackers to come […]
Goatse revisited
Purely for recreational reasons (and I really should not be doing this right now), a few nice examples of Goatse remixes. Enjoy!
(Apple Goatse: Source unknown, but the stickers were shipped with a load of Valleyschwag once. All rights reserved by the authors.)
(Mickey Goatse: Source unknown. Maybe Disney themselves? All rights reserved by the authors.)
(iGoatse, for […]
BostonNOW goes bloggy, big time
BostonNOW, a free Boston daily newspaper, is incorporating blogs and other citizen media big time, it seems. (Rich media is the buzzword of the hour, after all.) While I’m not really familiar with neither Boston nor the newspaper, what Editor-in-Chief John Wilpers says about the changes seems to make an awful lot of sense:
All my […]
Great 09 F9 … art
I just love how quickly and creatively the issue around “09 F9 …” has spawned a bunch of cool art. As you can imagine, I’m a huge fan of art, especially of mash-ups and politically inspired art. So to me, it’s just great to watch the creativity unfold here.
Let’s see:
There’s the flickr group.
We’ve got […]