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(via The Best of Kickstarter 2012 — Kickstarter)

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“We estimate that collectively we served and informed 10 times as many individuals by embracing an open strategy. That’s hundreds of thousands of people. And it validates the Bloomberg administration’s commitment to this technology.”-NYC Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot

For more context, read about how public open government data feeds become critical infrastructure during natural disasters.

Hurricane Sandy, Open Data and Social Media | Open Government Blog

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Through his work and successes at Indaba, Jeremy was asked to produce music for movie & TV star Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s production company, as well as for Grammy-winning rapper/producer Missy Elliot. Work which only a year earlier seemed as far fetched as time travel.

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There are now hundreds of radiation-related feeds from Japan on Pachube, monitoring conditions in realtime and underpinning more than half a dozen incredibly valuable applications built by people around the world. They combine 'official' data, 'unofficial' official data, and, most importantly to us,realtime networked geiger counter measurements contributed by concerned citizens. Now we're even seeing some tracking radiation measurements of tap water.

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This is so cool.  Gotye remixes the remixes of his hit song:

Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered.

 I was directly inspired here by Kutiman's Thru-You project: 
‪http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA‬
 Wonderful stuff!

 Thankyou to everyone who has responded to Somebody That I Used To Know via YouTube. It's truly amazing! All audio and video in Somebodies is from the YouTube user videos featured, each of them a cover or parody of Somebody That I Used To Know. No extra sounds were added to the mix, but I used some EQ, filtering, pitch-shifting and time-stretching to make the music.

 A full list of links to the original videos is available here:
‪ http://www.gotye.com/#blog.html ‬

I avoided using any existing remixes of the song, or any covers from tv talent shows.
 As comprehensive and extensive as I tried to be with my downloading of source videos, I know there are many clips that I missed. 

I used Ableton Live for audio stretching, pitch-shifting and the initial video editing, and Adobe's After Effects to put the final video together. 

Big thanks to Travis Banko for assistance with downloading source videos, and to James Bryans for After Effects tutelage.

 Thankyou to Barry for being Barry, and guiding us all.

 Thanks to you for listening

 Wally

Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra (by gotyemusic)

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This year, he made $100,000 teaching on Skillshare, including $25,000 in the month of June alone.

Skillshare Offers Courses Online To Expand 'Marketplace' For Education

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Isaac's Live Lip-Dub Proposal (by Isaac Lamb)

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Making my shows affordable has always been my goal but two things have always worked against that. High ticket charges and ticket re-sellers marking up the prices. Some ticketing services charge more than 40% over the ticket price and, ironically, the lower I've made my ticket prices, the more scalpers have bought them up, so the more fans have paid for a lot of my tickets. By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I've cut the ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the ticket price. To buy a ticket, you join NOTHING. Just use your credit card and buy the damn thing. opt in to the email list if you want, and you'll only get emails from me.

LouisCK.net | I'm going on the road

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With the little existing physical, political and social infrastructure now destroyed or damaged, the situation was especially challenging for aid agencies arriving on the ground. Where are the areas most in need of assistance, how do we get there, where are people trapped under buildings, which roads are blocked? This information is important to the rescue agencies immediately after the event, and to the longer rebuilding process. In many developing countries, there is a lack of good mapping data and particularly after a crisis, when up-to-date information is critical to managing events as they evolve. Enter OpenStreetMap, the wiki map of the world, CrisisMappers and an impromptu community of volunteers who collaborated to produce the most authoritative map of Haiti in existence. Within hours of the event people were adding detail to the map, but on January 14th high resolution sattelite imagery of Haiti was made freely available and the Crisis Mapping community were able to trace roads, damaged buildings, and enter camps of displaced people into OpenStreetMap.

Ito World: ITO World at TED 2010 - Project Haiti

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So for the past 10 years, Brierley has scoured the satellite images of Google Earth, zooming in and out searching for any discernible clues. He found the train station where he used to beg with his brother, then examined the surrounding area and found that his hometown was called Ganesh Talai. He joined a Facebook group, messaging locals to piece the story together. And then, three weeks ago, he boarded a plane.

Man Uses Google Earth to Track Down Long-Lost Family in India

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A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography).

Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red secondary) added. Also many other features were added such as the blue glowing refugee camps that emerge.

A lot of these edits were made possible by a number of satellite and aerial imagery passes in the days after the quake, that were release to the public for tracing and analysis.

Read more on our blog - itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/ito-world-at-ted-2010-project-haiti.html

Developed with support from ideasintransit.org

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At Personal Democracy Forum 2011 (#PdF11), developer and activist Jim Gilliam gave this inspiring talk about his life, his battles with cancer, and how he found grace in the networks and connections that the Internet makes possible.