“Life In A Day” YouTube Debut

Ultimate Remix

In a grand collaboration with the global community, Producer/Director Ridley Scott, Kevin MacDonald and the Youtube Community present the ultimate remix with what it is like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010 on Thursday, January 27 at 8PM EST.

Visit Life In a Day. http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday

 

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Free knowledge tools: the Wiki way

Source: Wikimedia Foundation.

Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

The vision statement atop the Wikimedia Foundation home page says it all.

Wikimedia is the 4th largest website in world.
Yes, fourth.

This nonprofit organization is driven by volunteers from around the world helping the more than 250 million people who use Wikimedia monthly to create content, post photos, videos, and biographies, daily. Creating more than 3.3 million articles, and 21 million pages from over 12 million registered users.

The largest collaboratively edited reference project. includes its sister media sites of:

Wikipedia Written in 264 languages, hosts no advertising,
and its 100% free information to people everywhere in the world.

Wiktionary.org
An Open Content, human edited dictionary

Wikibooks.org
More than 30,000 English Open-content textbooks, and
more than 800,000 publications in 117 languages

Wikiquote.org
A multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations.

Wikiversity.org
An Open Language community providing a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.

Wikispecies.org
A free directory of species, covering Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.

…and more Wikis.

Want to help?

Support quality open source public information
and the Wikimedia Foundation by donating.

More

What is a Wiki? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
How to Edit a Wiki page. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages
See all Wiki Projects: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects

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Semantic MediaWiki with Property Clusters – Dpldemo
(semeb.com)

*The Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikispecies logos are registered trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Video: Social Collaboration Builds This Wikipedia Page

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Watch this brief video of a Wikipedia page being built by a group of contributors. This is a time lapse of their 90 minute collaboration.

Wikipedia is the largest user generated and maintained site on the internet. Its active community hosts more than 60,000 articles and 1.07BN edits in its English edition. This human generated site is ranked 6th in the US by Alexa and 7th Globally over MSN.com, Orcut.com and Twitter.com

Learn more about Wikipedia.

See live stats on the Wikimedia counter.

View all the Wikimedia projects.

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Is the publishing industry dead?

Image via Wikipedia

Garrison Keillor make a plaintive case on self publishing’s disruption to the publishing industry, reminiscing of the days where paper meant something and being “an author” was a rite of passage for a chosen few.

Self publishing is as easy as a text, a tweet, a Blurb, or an eBook on Scribd or Lulu.

…that is the future of publishing: 18 million
authors in America, each with an average
of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives.

So how do writers, journalist, poets publish to survive? Will publishers themselves survive by aggregating and redistributing online content down new channels to expand the individual’s reach?

Keillor’s lament and the continued growth of self publishing underscores the need to continuously build our personal and professional networks as this socially mediated mode of communication, the internet, continues to provide greater and greater access and voice to millions who have something to say.

Read Keillor’s post here.

14 Slides Business Needs to Thrive in the Social Web

Neil Perkin gave a keynote with a slide deck that would rival Lawrence Lessig’s.

Perkins presents key data points for navigating the social web, which resonate success for anyone engaged in social media, social networks, or simply using their smartphone.

Here are 14 slides business (or anyone) needs to know:

• #8 – About 70% of the digital universe is generated by individuals.
• #14 – Media brands are increasingly defined less by the platform and more by the community
• #15 …the means of production and distribution are shared…
• #18 …the purpose of information is to foster communication  — M.Zuckerberg.
• #21 …attention is increasingly earned…
• #22 …creating and supporting groups…
• #23 …engaging and nurturing its community…
• #25 …how can you help that comunity do what it wants to do  — M.Zuckerberg.
• #29 …you are what you share  — C.Ledbeater
• #31 …companies must act faster, responding in real time, to keep apace with its customers.” FarisYakob
• #32 …its about responsiveness…
• #38 …create content and services that [is] worth passing on.
• #51 – Americans between the ages of 8 and 18 spend on average 7 1/2 hours a day using some sort of electronic device
• #58 – New ways to tell stories…

Be There. Share. Show You Care.

The bottom line? The road to success will be earned by those who create and share an endless stream of information, and whom participate to support within their communities.

Feed your community. Grow your influence.
Feed your community. Earn their trust.
Feed your community.

What are you sharing?

Be the perspective. Be the difference. #sixwords

Why do we want to inspire? To motivate? To Sell? To Influence?

Why are you in business?

How do you build an audience?

How do you make friends?

How do you serve your community?

What is your bliss? Your mission? Your vision?

What perspectives do you hold on life?

With whom do you share this?

Who are you listening to? Who is listening to you?

What is your perspective?

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What’s the single most powerful positive word? TED Disussion

–Updated: February 16, 2:40pm PST

“What is the single most powerful positive word
in the English language?”

A lively discussion has lit up on LinkedIn on TED’s discussion group to answer that question.
The community responses are shown in the following tag cloud.

From Blog to Haiku to 6 Words to Single Word

Reductionism. This seems to be all too appealing for some in their online communication.

First, it was the blog, a shortened form of the news winnowed down to a journaled blurb.Then it was the 140 character tweet which restricted the 160 characters of its antecedent, the cellular text message.

Haiku tweets then added a pleasant literary intentionality to this narrowed universe with their 5-7-5 syllabic 3 line poems. It is same line of reductionism that fuels the popularity of the Six words blogs, stories and subsequent contests. Which only makes sense that this TED Group would (finally) query asking for a single word.

How would you answer?

What is the single most powerful positive word in the English language for you?

For the full discussion visit TED on LinkedIN here.
Learn more about TED here.

Make your own tag cloud at Wordle.net.

What is the single most powerful positive word in the English language?