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I threw together this World Film Collective website to show off all the cool videos being made by the kids we connect with in South Africa duing the 2010 World Cup!
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Digg: Internet faster and more instant
At its annual South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) party Saturday night, Digg announced that it will soon launch a significantly revamped version of its service that is faster and has instant Digging and instant submissions.
Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb’s BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was “five years” of major work on the popular headline aggregation system.
Among the new features, Adelson said, are that any keyword can be its own category; that submissions will be a one-click process; that users will no longer have to log in to Digg something; that people’s Digg home pages will be affected by their own interests; that the service is bringing back leader boards; and that it is ripping out its MySQL back end and moving to a infrastructure that will be “very, very fast.”
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Is Investigative Journalism Dead?
All the words and images pouring in from Haiti remind us how social media have revolutionized the standards for communicating in times of crisis. In spite of the gut wrenching imagery, it’s a positive thing that anyone with a camera, phone, or computer can publish their thoughts and feelings globally.
Crowd-sourced news and freelance / celebrity writers have reduced the need for traditional investigative journalism. We no longer rely on “the professionals” to challenge existing orthodoxies; rather, we leave the critical thinking to the people we know and trust and respect.
As other have said, disasters of the scale that struck Haiti this week usually see a huge outpouring of cash and interest in the immediate aftermath, which almost disappears within the first year. And who will do the follow up reporting? Professional journalists, or the crowd?
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Anyone care to use an elevated biking system? Check this out for a highly-detailed and ambitious project that puts cyclists above the streets.
From the Kolelinia website:
Kolelinia is a city fly attempt… a concept for riding our own bikes on a steel wire, a new type of bicycle-lanes…
Can this actually work?
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Our transition towards a hydrogen-based economy has begun…
SINGAPORE – January 4, 2009. “A hydrogen station in every home” is a futuristic vision that is about to become reality this week as Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies unveils what could be its biggest breakthrough to date: a small home hydrogen refueling and storage solution that could begin our transition to a hydrogen-based economy.
In addition to making many new fuel cell products possible, the refueling device enables a lower cost, scalable, and consumer-centric hydrogen supply model which eliminates the dependence on large-scale fueling infrastructure investments. Horizon’s game-changer innovation can unlock the age-old dilemma over which comes first: clean cars, or clean fuels.
“We no longer need to rely on nationwide networks of hydrogen fueling stations to enable large-scale fuel cell commercialization,” comments Taras Wankewycz, one of the company’s founders. “Horizon is initiating a transition that places consumers in the driving seat. Thanks to our innovation each household can gradually become a major part of tomorrow’s hydrogen fuel supply infrastructure.” Read the full press release.
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“What happens when you place a small pinhole camera on the top of a turntable and expose the film for the length of L America by The Doors (which is 4:35, by...
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Old Damascus
Syria
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Arrival to a stange place
So, here I am, sitting in an internet cafe at 1:43am in Damascus and what a day it has been! I woke up this morning at 5am and...
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“Please remove the images of black people as all of our clients are white.”
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We are so excited to present a way for fans to watch the scenes in order, smoothly! Enjoy!
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Although any kind of problem can make a breakthrough in a dream, the two categories that really crop up a lot are things where...
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Cyglo Night Bright
Wired have an article on a new type of tyre from UK company, Cyglo. Essentially a series of LEDs embedded in the tyre wall, you can...
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