MediaPublics

Most museums rely on donations for their collections, but this new museum takes a radical social media-inspired approach.

And a fan creates an open-source prop for 3D printing: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3193

Buy real land in Detroit for $1 a square inch and join a network of inchvestors in the new 50,000 square inch Hello World microhood.

Some friends and I have a neighborhood there!

A post by Doctorow discussing the "the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secretive global copyright being privately negotiated by rich countries away from the UN"

"It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology"

"demonstrating a vision for a future in which media surfaces are everywhere, but are used to be playful, informative and to better connect you to your friends and family: "

"demonstrating a vision for a future in which media surfaces are everywhere, but are used to be playful, informative and to better connect you to your friends and family: "

"INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment."

Visuals, layers of information, all about us and them.

With commentary on the notion of an "American" ancestry, containing lots of interesting "us" and "them" constructions within the citizenry of the US.

Funny "news" story directly related to our discussion on Thursday about manipulation of crowd shots, stock footage, etc.

"It was a lark, to begin with. A Dinosaur Comic, a few messageboard posts, and all of a sudden so many people had so many good ideas that it seemed natural to put a book together."

They made #1, and accidentally knocked Glenn Beck's book to #3 on its first day of sales. http://machineofdeath.net/a/gb-audio

going back to the food images... In the video they make it clear the idea is to sell kitchen appliances but the images are fantastic

Following our discussion on Thursday (10/28) about maps and such...

Using AdWords to test out possible book titles.

Alyssa, Tomas, and I found this amazing video remix of the "I Love My Hair" Sesame Street segment. This is just entertaining because the Willow Smith song is so catchy, but the actual Sesame Street video is on there too for those interested.

Is google a monopoly?

Cory Doctorow interviewed on NPR re: e-books and creating connections with an audience via emergent publishing tech

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