User-Generated Content, Crowd-Sourcing, & Immaterial Labour:
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Martens Boot Design
- In
Rainbows Music Video Contest Judged by Radiohead in conjunction with
aniBoom
- Enter the In Rainbows Music Video contest for the
chance to
have Radiohead pick your Animated Music Video for their next track!In
Rainbows animated music video contest
- Immaterial Labor - Maurizio
Lazzarato
- Paul Krugman - Immaterial Labour
- Everything that can be digitized will be
digitized, making
intellectual property easier to copy and harder to sell for more than a
nominal price.
- YouTube - Rick Mercer: Roger Phillips'
Blog
- The unbearable meaninglessness of blogs. More
videos at www.cbc.ca/mercerreport
- On a Small Screen, Just the
Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com
- It seems counterintuitive, but small really is
beautiful; and stripping down to basic functions helps remove
distractions.
- If You Have a Problem, Ask
Everyone - NYTimes.com
- Would-be innovators can sign up online to compete
for prizes
for solving diverse problems from around the world in a variety of
disciplines.
- Canada's
Hockey Anthem Challenge - Hockey - Sports - CBCSports.ca
- Crowdsourcing: Consumers as
Creators
- A new trend allows customers to help design the
products they
buy. Just don't expect to get paid a fortune for that brilliant idea.
- CBC News In Depth: Crowdsourcing
- tech, crowdsourcing
- Search
Engine | CBC Radio
- Search Engine is your open source to all the
surprising and
significant ways the Internet is transforming our world. It's radio
that predicts the present.
- Thumbs Race as Japan’s
Best Sellers Go Cellular - New York Times
- In Japan, cellphone novels have not only
infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
- In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are
Written On Mobile Phones
- With all the talk about Amazon's Kindle, there's a
bigger
revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will
be horrified. In ...
- Cellphone bards hit bestseller lists |
The Japan Times Online
- Like many other young Japanese, Rin, 21, punches
her mobile
phone keys very quickly. Holding her phone with two hands, and moving
her thumbs deftly and smoothly, she quickly generates sentences on the
small screen.
- Scribd
- Publish Yourself Online
- Scribd is a way to easily put your documents
online.
- Use Flickr Photos for Custom Capital
One Cards
- I'm sure you've seen the Austin Powers-inspired
Capital One
commercials, promoting the new customization options for credit cards,
allowing you add your own
- Lord of the Memes - Op-Ed -
NYTimes.com
- In the age of the iPhone, prestige has shifted
from the producer of art to the aggregator and the appraiser.
- All of Us, the Arbiters of News -
NYTimes.com
- In the age of Twitter and YouTube, crowds are
driving the media agendas.
Radiohead Pony Up Extra $$$ for Video
Contest Victors | Pitchfork
- Clay Shirky on institutions vs.
collaboration | Video on TED.com
- TED Talks In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky
shows how
closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where
small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid
planning.
- Digital Domain - How Many
Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen? - NYTimes.com
- Web sites that welcome customer reviews have
evolved
significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of
their professional forebears.
- A Video Contest to Illustrate
Democracy - NYTimes.com
- The
State Department
is asking the world to create three-minute videos that answer the
question “Democracy is ... ?” as part of a new
contest
timed to mark International Democracy Day.
- LittleBigPlanet Turns Gamers Into Creators - NYTimes.com
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new videogame allows players to conjure
up their own design ideas and create playable content that can be
uploaded and shared.
- YouTube - Industrial Labour Processes
- This video explores Taylorism: it's origins and its relevance today.
- The new SMARTIES "Gimme Colour" Egg contest is coming soon
- Coming soon - your chance to design the next SMARTIES Egg box to be produced in 2009!
- Google micro swimming pool on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- People's favorite
- G&M - Don Tapscott - Digital boom is about to hit the workplace
- The most authoritative news in Canada featuring articles from
The Globe and Mail, breaking news coverage, national news,
international news, sports, weather, Report on Business.
- iStockPhoto: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
- Search our royalty free stock images and photos or browse a
giant selection of stock photography. Purchase royalty free stock
photos at iStockphoto.com.
- Threadless T-Shirts - Designer Clothing Submissions - Tees, Tshirts and T shirts!
- A collection of shirts submitted and rated by the public
- Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008
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- Blogging grows up | Oh, grow up | The Economist
- Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream
- Unboxed - For Innovators, There Is Brainpower in Numbers - NYTimes.com
- True invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators don’t always realize it.