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Daily Show on Google vs Viacom

Description on YouTube:

"Dailyshow's Demetri martin talks about the current battle between Viacom and Google"

Search, Search & Research

I've not been blogging much of late, but I have been actively researching online, as always. Recent projects include a short article entitled 'Enterprise 2.0 - The Business Mashup' which has recently been published on the Spannerworks website.

I've also prepared a small blog exploring the IKEA brand in terms of social networks, communities and multimedia content. I recently presented this to Antony Mayfield, Spannerworks' head of Content & Media.

The Blog 'Ikea Content' can be found here - any comments, observations or feedback would be much appreciated. I don't envisage much/any content being added, I just found blogging a quicker, easier and more useful way of representing these sorts of findings than evil MS Powerpoint, "a program written by Bill Gates, based on a concept developed in a paper written by the devil"!

Stop the Big Brother State

I started reading a book yesterday called 'Unspeak', then this morning I saw this infographical movie about surveillance:


Via the ever-interesting Infosthetics

Shameless (Self) Promotion

Do you want to work with me?

My office is next to...

Brighton Royal Pavilion!

Mr Suarez is Juggle-tastic

He showed me how to blog from my phone

Pythagoras Switch: Pitagora Suichi

A series of clips showing Rude Goldberg machines (things that perform a simple task in an unnecessarily complicated way) from an award-winning Japanese educational TV show for kids. Broadcast on NHK since 2002 the video below is a montage of intro seuences from the program. What!? "Pitagora Suichi" - watch the video, you'll be singing it in your head all week.

Magnets, watch the magnets...



{Thanks to Alex Chew via George Jackson}

Laser Graffiti

Laser graffiti - 'nuff said - incredible idea - nowhere is safe from impromptu messaging - but what more could it be used for? Hook it up in the Middle East perhaps and let Israeli & Palestinian civilians fight a war of lazer-words to reveal their true feelings? Paint some amsuing pictures of a Tony-Jug on the Houses of Parliament in London? Festivals and concerts could use the same technology for something I'm sure? Help locate lost kids in huge crowds by writing a name on the nearest skyscraper? I don't know... please post any better ideas - I'm tired but inspired:

YouTube Gangsters?

Today's edition of Metro carried on its front page a story about 'YouTube Gangsters' - trailing recent news stories about tragic gang shootings in south London it talks about gangsters recruiting, bragging and brandishing weapons on videos uploaded to social networking sites like YouTube and MySpace.

Presumably you've assumed that the image to the left is a screen grab from such a video. Challenge your prejudices as YOU COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG.

It is a grab taken from a video on a Metro train in France
with a group of young, black men. It's from a social networking site, found via Digg. It's a brilliant video of Naturally 7, an "award-winning gospel, r&b, jazz and soul septet from New York City".

Now this to me is a sign of the musical times ahead. Forget copyright fights between major record labels and social networking sites, they'll never be able to permenantly remove their content. Not only are these guys extremely talented but they've just unwittingly pioneered the C. 21st bastard-child of the resurgently popular 'flash-mob' - Gigs 2.0. There's music, talent, an appreciative (if somewhat suprised) audience - it's being spread through social networks and finding a huge audience (eg. 870 diggs at time of writing).

So let's take this model for music - if you've got talent, a videophone and internet access you can share your music with the world for free! Roll on the musical revolution, goodbye DRM, record labels, chart-fixing and the brain-washing of young people with Hip-pop & glossy bling culture. Generations to come will vote for their artists online and in networks where media is socially promoted.

Anyway, enough from me - listen and watch these guys spread joy and rhythm on one of modern society's most miserable and inhuman environments - the big-city metro:

Concert sauvage dans le métro !
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