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Star Wars Uncut: Crowdsourced Fan Remake
Star Wars Uncut is a decentralized collective remake of the George Lucas classic. The movie was divided into 427 fifteen-second chunks, which participants (i.e. anybody who wanted to get involved) can record to...Kingmaker: Selling Influence on Digg
"You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" is a common method of mutual site promotion, in which bloggers, site managers, and writers team up with each other across the ether to promote their respective work on...Millions of Canadians creating and sharing content online
It may be time to use the phrase, the people formerly known as the audience, in Canada. Figures from Stats Canada on internet use show that millions of Canadians are creating and sharing their own content online, which is good news for sites like NowPublic. 20% of people...
Hate 2.0: Racism and Extremist Content Online
I guess we're not the only ones flagging stuff... but there's more out there than mere spam and fishiness. Hate speech is insinuating itself into the webosphere more than ever. When I read the story quoted below,...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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424 views | 24 recommendations | 7 comments
free egg, anyone?
I’ve found a cool new Korean video-sharing site.It’s called ‘free egg’ an ambitious new company jointly owned by JoongAng Ilbo and alticast. JoongAng Ilbo is a top Korean news outlet and...
created by cynthia yoo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1279 views | 0 recommendations | 11 comments
CNN steps up the fight for citizen media
CNN is setting up its own citizen media website at iReport.com. The news giant started soliciting material from the public in August 2006, attracting some 100,000 submissions from the public.But only 10% of these were published by CNN, as editors handpicked the best...Amtrak: in The Dark on Emergency Preparedness
An Amtrak train station suffered a power outage yesterday, plunging commuters into darkness. Amtrak issued a press release touting their quick response. "An electrical problem cut power at 30th Street Station for...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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320 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
What's Your American Dream?
Pretty much everyone around the world knows about the "American Dream." The good life. The one the world aspires to. Living in Kazakhstan? too bad. Although there is undoubtedly a national Kazakh dream, no one...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
4484 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
4484 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
Three Second Pre-Rolls On YouTube
"I went through a period where I wrote about YouTube a lot. It was fascinating to me to watch web video take off and the lessons we all learned from YouTube's success were important. After YouTube was purchased by Google, I kind of lost interest. I felt like that story had...A revamped Yahoo turning to users
In 2001 Yahoo needed to hire a new CEO, deal with execs who were bailing left and right, cut costs, reorganize its internal structure and hone the overall strategy of the company. Almost six years later isn't Yahoo back where it started? Crowd-powered media is catching on....The Ethics of Web 2.0: YouTube vs. Flickr, Revver, Eyespot, blip.tv, and even...
"So thereâs an important distinction developing among âuser generated contentâ sites â the distinction between sites that permit âtrue sharingâ and those that permit only what...
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