Cynicism is dead in 2008. What are you doing to help the world? The least you can do is check out some forward-thinking websites.
Meetup Alliance attempts to take the meetup concept to the next logical level. If meetups are about the power of local groups that meet regularly, Meetup Alliance is about the power ..
Posts on Ideas
Five Websites That Might Possibly Change the World
18 Jan 2008
“Once You Open the Vault It Ceases to Be a Vault”
26 Nov 2007
Boston public television station WGBH has started to do what many people long for TV stations and related entities everywhere to do: chop up their archives into short video clips and make them findable online. Open Vault boasts a growing library of clips, mostly from the ’70s. Quick picks:
Nam June Paik’s “9/23″
Featuring ..
Getting Into the School of Everything
12 Nov 2007
The School of Everything is one of the better ideas I’ve heard for a startup in the last ten years: connecting would-be teachers with would-be students. They want to make it extremely easy to find people near you who can help you learn whatever it is you want to learn. If you think of ..
Beckett for Babies
21 Sep 2007
From Crooked House, via Silliman, for Lauren, who had a similar idea.
Google Book Mashups
10 Sep 2007
Who needs a cut-up machine when you can embed and combine public-domain book-page slices via Google Books?
UPDATE: “Ironics Light and Dark” above had to replaced with “ROBUST RED-BLOODED REALISM” because the 1901 poetry journal I had originally clipped from disappeared from Google’s index. One of the downsides of embeddable book clips. One of ..
Google Searching Your Bookshelf
07 Sep 2007
Photo: Flickr user gregw
Back in February, I reviewed all the book-oriented social networks I could find and concluded that what I really wanted was a more personalized version of Google Books. The rich related content with which Google surrounds many books is what makes it so valuable. Compare the book information pages for A ..
Altering Finnegans Wake
25 Jul 2007
With apologies to Tom Phillips, creator of the altered Victorian novel A Humument, and book alterers everywhere, I’ve been having a laugh altering Finnegans Wake. Amazingly, there’s a very straightforward linear narrative hidden in here about blogs. Parts 2-628 and back again TK.
The Message
16 Jul 2007
High-rise architecture and mini-skirts have much in common.
Image, audio courtesy of UbuWeb.
See also: Getting Rid of Animus
