March 2011
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WatchWeb 2.0 Says Thank You, KYM Community
Hey everyone.
So Jamie, Ellie, Mike, Patrick and I gave a keynote at Web 2.0 Expo today about the importance of documenting web culture and the importance of you all.
We asked the audience of around 1500 people to help thank you all. You can see the video above.
(via Web 2.0 Says Thank You, KYM Community | General Discussion | Know Your Meme)
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besetwithconflict asked: What type of cheese do you enjoy eating the most?
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“The competitive landscape gets altered because the Internet allows insurgents to...”
– Clay Shirky in ‘From Innovation to Revolution’ | Foreign Affairs
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YouTube Create: Easy Digital Storytelling →
Now it is even easier to create content for YouTube without even needing a video camera or webcam. YouTube has just launched ‘YouTube Create‘ a new portal pulling together three great animation tools: GoAnimate, Stupeflix, an Xtranormal, each of which lets you ‘build’ custom videos featuring virtual avatars, custom speech, and more. All three would be excellent resources to support digital...
Sleep is More Important than Food - Tony Schwartz... →
Why is sleep one of the first things we’re willing to sacrifice as the demands in our lives keep rising? We continue to live by a remarkably durable myth: sleeping one hour less will give us one more hour of productivity. In reality, the research suggests that even small amounts of sleep deprivation take a significant toll on our health, our mood, our cognitive capacity and our...
Salad Onions: Eleven very short stories about SXSW →
So damn good, I had to reblog the entire thing.
saladonions:
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“It’s just like every great empire, y’know what I’m sayin?”. The driver paused to honk his horn again at a cloud of content strategists. “Egypt, Rome, you Brits - they get decadent and then they fall. Same with south-by.” He pulled to a stop in front of the SoBe Lizard Lounge. “Y’all have a good time, now.”
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I was out of his...
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WatchTim Hwang talks about SocialBots at Ignite SF
For the past 12 months, a clandestine competition has been running in the subterranean world underneath the hum and bustle of everyday life on Twitter. Teams, armed with the latest tools, have been architecting and launching swarms of robots to compete in influencing and shaping the social behavior of online communities on the mega-scale....
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WatchCharter school’s $125K experiment - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Katie Couric reports on an experimental New York City charter school founded on the idea of hiring the best teachers by paying them $125,000, while denying them tenure.
My brother in law, Damion, works at this school (he makes several appearances on camera.)
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Who Says What to Whom on Twitter | Yahoo! Research →
We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter—-roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users—-where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed.
We also find significant homophily within categories: celebrities listen to celebrities, while bloggers listen to bloggers etc; however, bloggers in general rebroadcast...
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“The thing we have to realise is that this isn’t an era of control. Our...”
– matt webb on fukushima and engineering (via sippey)
I had a timely conversation with Zadi last night about time and historicity, revolution and evolution, which all dovetailed nicely with my interest in control and accidents and decay.
recent question on my mind: have we gotten better with...
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WatchNicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
“Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we’re residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network. Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism, a collection of individuals...
At St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Hoboken, Revelry... →
Two women told the authorities that they were sexually assaulted over the weekend.
Officials at Hoboken’s main hospital said they admitted 166 people on Saturday, the highest such one-day total at the hospital.
Firefighters responding to a backyard blaze were greeted by revelers on a balcony who spat down and also poured beer at them. Then someone threw a flower planter down, the fire chief,...
4chan founder: Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about... →
Poole argued that anonymity allows users to reveal themselves in a “completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.” One of the things that’s lost when you carry the same identity everywhere is “the innocence of youth.” (“Innocence” isn’t the first word that would come to mind when I think of 4chan, but okay, I’ll go with him here.) In other words, when everyone knows everything you’ve done online,...
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A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”...
Netflix To Enter Original Programming With Mega... →
Video streaming juggernaut Netflix is becoming an original programming player. In what is probably the biggest gamble in its 14-year history, I hear Netflix has outbid several major cable networks, including HBO and AMC, for Media Rights Capital’s drama series House of Cards, executive produced and directed by David Fincher and exec produced by and starring Kevin Spacey.
Negotiations are...
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