YouTube at Carnegie Hall

A few months ago I wrote about YouTube setting up its own crowd sourced orchestra. The orchestra performed and a mash up of their performance appeared on the orchestra channel earlier in the month. So for your dilectation I bring you the highlights of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall conducted by Michael Tilson [...]

The internet make us smarter, so how long until they dumb it down?

I picked up a copy of Intelligent Life last night and was struck by the letter from the editor, Tim Delisle. The crux of the letter is that, no matter what we’re told, we are all getting smarter (wish I could agree) for a number of reasons, not least of all the internet. Delisle claims [...]

Online Room 101

Jed tagged me in a meme and dammit I intend to follow through, so here we go:
 

 
I had a little problem with this one because the nature of the internet is such that if you don’t like something you just don’t go to it. However, i managed to scrape a few together and without further [...]

Some Cool Stuff

Just kicking about the internet and wanted to point y’all in the direction of some cool stuff.
The upcoming Watchmen film which I’ve waxed lyrical about before is putting on a heavy digital campaign. A few YouTube Channels connected to the film have appeared including one for Veidt industries (a company owned by one of the [...]

Accuracy Vs Accessibility: The Wikipedia Story

I don’t know what it is about the Independent but they Love them a good Wikipedia story and I just love to have my two cents. Today the Indy have a big spread on how Wikipedia is crumbling.
On Obama’s inauguration day senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd had to leave a celebration dinner early. [...]