Media
Video: Evolution of the “Social Media Revolution”
Here’s my edit of the original Did You Know? 2 video from 2006.
Read MoreThank You: an unexpected gem from Seoul on Hulu
I stumbled on this 2006 drama/comedy from South Korea on Hulu, and was surprised to be drawn in deeply over the arc. At times a comedy, a medical drama, a romance, a kickboxing fight scene, I never quite knew what would come next. The conventional genres in domestic U.S. television — based on demographically-segmented marketing…
Read MoreVideo: How Eric Whitacre conducted his virtual choir of 2,000 voices
With an emergent technology, something happens that you’d never imagined. Here, YouTube and Hulu, via WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter — and built upon the Internet — bring something new and wonderful to life. In a moving, madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the…
Read MoreThere is nothing on the Internet that is not in your heart
“I want to denounce the notion that Social Networks are a Petri dish of perversion, danger, and now as paths to suicide. Yes it is true that there are perverted and dangerous elements on the web, but this is because there are elements of danger and perversion within the human psyche. We are what is…
Read MoreVideo: Derek Sivers – How to Start a Movement
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.) “Leadership is overglorified…. It was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we’re all told that we should be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about…
Read MoreAlexis Madrigal on “weak ties” and activism
“I’ve been watching some people’s minds work on [Facebook] for years. Every day I see their faces in my feed. To label these weak ties is just inaccurate. And it makes me wonder, can’t we know people through their writing? Is face-to-face contact the only way to build strong ties? “University of Maryland-Baltimore sociologist Zeynep…
Read MoreIf Facebook existed years ago
“Ben Franklin: Signed up the declaration of independence today. Booyah, England | 234 years ago France likes this England: You done fucked up now. John Adams: Bring it. Ben Franklin: You redcoats don’t stand a chance. Thomas Jefferson: Redcoats? More like DICKcoats. Amiright? John Hancock: Does this mean we get to sign more shit? Cuz…
Read MoreTED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
“Presentation of ‘three stories and an argument’ … brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the ‘ASCAP cartel’ to build a case for creative freedom.” TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
Read MoreVideo: Facebook Infomercial Parody (2007)
Do you remember what Facebook was like back in 2007? Were you at one of the early schools? How creepy was it? YouTube – Facebook Infomercial Parody
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