Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

Growth of a Twitter graph
blog.burak-arikan.com/growth-of-a-twitter-graph/

What kind of interest groups emerge as I cure my Twitter social graph. Do my Twitter friends have always growing interconnections? How do people relate? Do I have friends who link together otherwise disconnected communities of interest? Do my Twitter clusters expand or contract over time?

Friends data collected via Twitter API at three different times to be able to compare the diagrams in time. This movie shows the last week. See h

Here's a creative example of adding the visual to the verbal to amplify the narrative. I Met The Walrus is an amazing six-minute film which earned an Academy Award nomination for best animated short early this year. This is the story: In 1969 14-year-old Jerry Levitan "armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrac

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including

The 'Social Virtual' World's A Stage
A Film by Gary Hayes © Personalizemedia 2008
http://www.personalizemedia.com

75MB MP4 Download available at http://www.justvirtual.com/SVWS_2008.mp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CijdlYOSPc

"This is not a Game" - Music composed and performed by
Gary Hayes http://www.korkyt.net

Post about the video here: http://www.personalizemedia.com/2008-...

Over 50 virtual worlds featured including:
Second Life, HiPiHi, Kaneva, Twinity, ActiveWorlds, LagunaBeach vMTV. There.co

Video by Tony Hirst (http://ouseful.info) on how the Web changes communications and the media.

Dans le cadre de la sortie du livre "Mais non, je blogue", Milan Jeunesse présente les flux RSS expliqués aux enfants ou comment suivre l'actualité de ses sites préférés sans se fatiguer.

http://www.maisnonjeblogue.com
http://www.netvibes.com/milan
http://www.editionsmilan.com

Inspiré de "RSS in plain english" (http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english)

A CBC presentation of famous human behaviour experiments.

presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net

Robert Lang is a pioneer of modern origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 15:59.)

http://blog.ted.com/2008/07/idea_square_ori.php

Avaaz.org (Avaaz means "voice" or "song" in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and other langauges) is a community of global citizens who take action on major issues around the world. We have members in every country on earth, and operate in twelve languages. Our aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world's people--and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations--shape global decisions.

This video, made with agit-pop.com with music by DJ Spooky, helped launch our campaign against the so-called C

The Century Of The Self - Part 4 of 4 - By Adam Curtis - 58 mn - 8 août 2006
A Lucifer Sybarite Contribution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml
(795 Avis) Note :
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

The Century Of The Self - Part 3 of 4 - By Adam Curtis - 58 mn - 8 août 2006
A Lucifer Sybarite Contribution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml
(795 Avis) Note :
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4 - By Adam Curtis - 58 mn - 8 août 2006
A Lucifer Sybarite Contribution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml
(795 Avis) Note :
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4 - By Adam Curtis - 58 mn - 8 août 2006
A Lucifer Sybarite Contribution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml
(795 Avis) Note :
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

Fourth annual Short Film Online Competition - Cannes 2008. The NFB, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, is proud to announce that the winner of the NFB Online Competition Cannes 2008 is Alonso Alvarez Barreda for his short film Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign) produced in Mexico/U.S.A.

Director : Alonso Alvarez Barreda
Running Time : 04:50
Year : 2007
Country : Mexico/ U.S.A
Category : Short film

http://www.tylerroberts.net Short story winner of the Cannes Fe

At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, he asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

SocioPatterns.org aims to shed light on hidden patterns in social dynamics. A case in point is the study of contact patterns, which deals with such patterns in contacts among people.

Premier épisode d'une série de vidéos consacrée à l'évolution du web, réalisé par Manuel Vila

Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for.