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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...

created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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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...

created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Jordan Yerman

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 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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mycookinghut

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 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Jordan Yerman

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 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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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 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
5662 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...

created by the source | 5 years ago
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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....

created by jonw | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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thelastminute

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...

created by the source | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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