This video was created by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
It provides insight and statistics on many important issues relevant to students and educators today, including cultural, social and technological concerns.
Music soundtrack by Try^d: Listen - Both the video and music are released under Creative Commons license.
You can learn more about the collaboration and data gathering at the Digital Ethnography blog
via Open Culture
Friday, October 16, 2009
A Vision of Students Today
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Changing Media Landscape - Did You Know 4.0
Facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology.
For further information and the story behind the making of "Did You Know 4.0" visit:
XPlane
The Economist
Monday, September 14, 2009
Carbon.to - CO2 Awareness Tool
An online CO2 converter built by David Kjelkerud, Henrik Berggren and Jorge Zapico at Ecomo09, an environmental hacking day in London. It is designed to help you more easily understand what a kilogram of CO2 really means.
You can convert CO2 amounts to other units such as bottles of beer or compare different emissions for instance how many apples are equivalent to a litre of milk. The data used is mostly localized to Sweden.
David and Henrick also built http://citysounds.fm/ the web app that lets you listen to the latest music from cities around the world.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Importance of Innovation for Future Economic Growth Worldwide
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Instruction Manual for Life [cc]
A story about childhood, parenthood, and adulthood. Animation and words by TheraminTrees. Piano score by QualiaSoup (YouTube channel links)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Gaia - The Future of Politics
Gaia, a New World Order, is born today, the 14 August 2054.Via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing
Racial conflicts, ideological conflicts, religious conflicts, territorial conflicts belong to the past.
Every man is a world citizen, subject to the same law.
The Internet has driven the change, spreading communication, knowledge and organization at a planetary level. Transcript
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Contsructive Capitalism
Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 - Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions on Vimeo. February 12, 2009, Stockholm.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Video Explaining the Subprime Mortgage Time-Bomb
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.
Google Tip Jar - a collection of money saving tips submitted and ranked by the web community.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Copyright Crunch Leads to Pirates Prisons Project
A radical new project designed to punish and reform illegal downloaders of copyrighted music could prove to be a huge money spinner for tech savvy investors. The Pirates Prisons Project aims to capitalize on the current copyright crunch by building 100s of 1000s of new prisons to house the unlimited supply of illegal internet users. If proposed legislation to criminalise billions of music fans goes ahead, the high probability of re-offending represents a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity to secure real financial gains for PPP shareholders.
The ingenious shares scheme relies on the music industry's desire for economic dominance. However critics of doom and bust policies believe the music industry's strategy of using a failed business model is enevitably doomed to failure (See links below). Only (prison) time will tell.
Prison/Copyright Reform Related
Two articles I wrote in 2006 warning of the impending copyright crunch:
What if The Beatles had used Creative Commons Licenses?
British Record Industry Loses Fight to Extend Copyright