Innovation

Crowdsourcing is so 2007

Let me introduce you to crowdcollecting. The video you will watch below consists of seven music tracks/videos that are made exclusively from video material found on YouTube. Kutiman spent 3 months in his bedroom splicing and dicing over one hundred videos for samples of singers and instruments—from guitars, pianos, drums and harps, to synthesizers, a bouzouki and even a cash ...

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Coming to Texas? Come say Hello

If you’re coming to town, don’t miss this opportunity to meet all of the top Texas social media users at one party. The Austin American-Statesman, which has been deeply involved in the local social media scene, is honoring 24 Texans who exemplify all that is good about social media. Check out the winners. The Statesman is going to host a ...

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What's the role of technology in change?

Members of NetSquared—a project of TechSoup to bring the benefits of technology to nonprofits—are considering the question of what technology issues will affect change. Hmm…it seems to me there is so much change going on—and a lot of it is the direct or indirect consequence of technology—that it’s hard to get very specific. Here’s a list of socio-technical phenomena I ...

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Nielsen: Social Networking Overtakes E-mail in Popularity

Social networking has overtaken e-mail as the most popular Internet activity, according to a new study released by Nielsen. Active reach in what Nielsen defines as “member communities” now exceeds e-mail participation by 67 percent to 65 percent. What’s more, the reach of social networking and blogging venues is growing at twice the rate of other large drivers of Internet ...

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