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Keyboard Cat is our salvation (and the bane for politicians)

in your darkest day, in your darkest hour, when the fail is epic and relentless and no crisis can be bigger do not despair -- keyboard cat will offer redemption. --me Fatso, a.k.a. Keyboard Cat, has changed the way I look at failure. Sure, it hurts to make a mistake or show the world how much of a … [Read more...]

Animoto: soon to launch video upload and 3D viewing

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8JTGsbVkw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1] Animoto -- the easy, fast and cool way to create video slideshows that actually don't look like slideshows -- is about to become even cooler. It will soon launch some amazing new features: aside … [Read more...]

Democratising and socialising data to empower the public domain – other examples

This serves more as an appendix to the main articles I've written on the subject. I plan to update this list of best practices in e-democacy / e-governance / open civic governance / gov 2.0.  I've already listed some inspiring initiatives in part 3 of the main article, but I know there are a lot … [Read more...]

Kirtasbook.com: digitize a book, earn 5%

All lovers of knowledge, raise your fists for Kirtasbook.com. They've launched a program where you can help subsidise the digitalisation of books while earning 5% of all future sales. I think it's a good expansion of their business moel where anyone can order a rare,  out-of-print or … [Read more...]

Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”

Chris Anderson's new book is causing a storm and firing up conversations amongst the internet gurus. You can read it here -- for free -- and decide for yourself. This version should include notes / references that were missing from the printend copy and prompted some critques on plagiarism. I intend … [Read more...]

TED Talks – Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

[ted id="575"] Clay Shirky talks about how social networks like Twitter, Facebook are changing the landscape of news production and reporting, and how this change in top-down control of news concurrently changes politcal dynamics. … [Read more...]

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