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Wow. I absolutely *LOVE* this song by Charlene Ava. I love how she incorporates environmental noises into the music… and just lets it breathe. Today’s world can sometimes feel so sterile, I find myself increasingly attracted to the grittier, richer, spontaneous creation of art and music. Check out some of the other songs she has on her site, all very beautiful. charleneava: Did some spontaneous midnight songwriting recently. Really into ambient mellow sappy stuff lately. I recorded this with piano and with my windows wide open. I literally turned up the mic and let the traffic and construction going on outside get recorded at the same time with the vocals. I sat at my desk and made up lyrics as the song went on. The mic was picking me up from across the room. “never again” they’re drilling holes in the street traffic is moving in little streams and I’m not gonna fall in love ever again in love ever again outside all the cars move as if they know I sit by the window here with nothing to smoke I’m not gonna fall in love ever again in love ever again you hang me out to dry I don’t even wonder why cause I’m not gonna fall in love ever again in love ever again

Post Secret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God. You may find the brave voices captured in this short film haunting, shocking and humorous. In some of their faces you’ll see joy, anguish and grace as they trust you with their confession. Please tell your friends about this short and thank you for supporting PostSecret by buying the books for yourself or as gifts.

Big Beach, Little Beach; big ideas, small details. We are on a business retreat on Maui, staying at the Hotel Wailea, and filming at Big Beach/Little Beach. iPod | 3:46 | To Embed or Email: click above At home we have a small place with low ceilings, and no view. At the Hotel Wailea, we have a large room, high ceilings, and an incredible view! The shift in our thinking as a result in the shift in our environment is providing a contrast that was long overdue for us. It reminds me of the value of alternating between big view and little view. Hawaiian word: Ikena: view, scenery, knowledge Vote for us please: Beach Walks with Rox for Best Online Video Web Series http://mashable.com/owa/votes/category/38?c=38 #openwebawards Subscribe to Beach Walks via RSS. Get Beach Walks with Rox delivered by Email. Subscribe to Beach Walks with Rox in iTunes. (Please leave us a review too!) Join our online community, The Reef. Become a Fan on Facebook.

I’ve been watching this video all weekend. It’s like a kitty happiness drug… and quite possibly the cutest kitty video ever.

Autotuning Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. via: symphonyofscience.com - spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through music.

Jetedone Swimwear Introduces The Jett Girl Model Search. The Jett Girl Model Search will be looking for the best models in the world for Jetedone swimwear's full line of swimsuits including bikini and one piece attire. Jetedone is the world's leader in custom swimwear. The model search will feature contestants competing in dresses and the latest beach fashions.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody I twittered this earlier, but it just makes me so happy. So consider it an encore! (via @moth)

LOL. My favorite moment from August’s PBS press tour. I was busy interviewing the Sesame Street gang, so I didn’t realize what happened at the time. In Steve’s words: “At the TV Critics Press Tour in August, we interviewed Sesame Street. I was so dumbstruck by watching Maria, Grover, and Cookie Monster, that I ACTUALLY REACHED IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA to adjust audio levels on a mixing board we borrowed. To say this is an incredibly stupid thing to do is an understatement. Grover noticed.”

Techno Dancing Grandma. Amazing! Couldn’t stop laughing. I want to dance like her when I’m her age. (via: leahdemilio: thanks @elspethjane for sharing this video - this just made my day)

Another reason I like Lady Gaga. The girl has layers (sites Rilke as her fav philosopher)… and she’s crazy smart and cognizant about her role in the music business (scrub to 5:15 mark). She just may be our next pop icon. annieisms: ronworkman: christr: thedailywhat: Before They Were Lady Gaga of the Day: Footage of some nobody named Stephanie Germanotta performing a medley of songs at a 2005 NYU talent showcase surfaced recently on the Internet. Let me be the first to say, this lady sure can sing. I really hope she makes it. [via.] !!! (Minus 1 point for the douchey MC, though.)

YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Built from our APIs, this open source application lets media organizations enable customized versions of YouTube’s upload platform on their own websites. Users can upload videos directly into this application, which also enables the hosting organization to easily review video submissions and select the best ones to broadcast on-air and on their websites. As always, these videos also live on YouTube, so users can reach their own audience while also getting broader exposure and editorial validation for the videos they create.

ORIGINAL DESIGN GANGSTA - for the design-heads out there. “press check it!” ( …press checks are the worst.)

The EyeWriter: technology using open source software that enables paralyzed graffiti artists to draw using only their eyes. From one of the artists: “Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others.” – Tony Quan, aka Tempt One

Haha! The truth about social media experts/gurus. I can’t even begin to express how accurate this is… and funny.

Für Apples iPhone gibt es Unmengen nützlicher Zusatzprogramme, geschrieben von Profi- und Hobby-Programmierern in aller Welt. Aber welche die Kunden letztlich auf ihrem Telefon installieren dürfen, entscheiden nicht sie, sondern Apple. Passt dem Hersteller ein Programm nicht, bekommt es keine Zulassung fürs iPhone. „Für die Sicherheit der Kunden”, argumentiert Apple. „Zur Sicherung von Apples Geschäftsinteressen”, meinen Kritiker, denen solche geschlossenen Systeme ein Dorn im Auge sind. Das iPhone ist längst nicht das einzige digitale Gerät, bei dem der Hersteller sich Kontrollfunktionen einräumt - auch nach dem Verkauf, auch aus der Ferne. Besitzer von Amazons E-Book-Lesegerät “Kindle” erlebten, wie ihnen die Firma ein elektronisches Buch aus dem Speicher löschte, obwohl sie es ganz legal erworben hatten. Die Nutzer glauben also nur, sie hätten die komplette Verfügungsgewalt über ihre Geräte oder den den darauf laufenden Programmen und gespeicherten Inhalten. In Wirklichkeit bestimmen die Hersteller, was sie damit machen dürfen und was nicht. Kritiker warnen deshalb vor einer digitalen Entmündigung der Verbraucher. Und manche befürchten das verheerende Ende der kreativen Computer-Tüftel-Kultur, wenn Basteleien nur noch mit dem Segen des Herstellers möglich sind. Mitwirkende: Rüdiger Weis, Ed Felten, Oliver Kretzschmar, Jon Johansen, Markus Breuer; Autoren: Fiete Stegers, Mario Sixtus; Mitarbeit: Janko Röttgers; Kamera: Iris Jungels, Eddie Codel, Julius Endert; Schnitt: Dominic Kennedy, Arne Bönninghoff; Sprecher: Petra Bröcker, Torsten Altenhöner; Zeichnungen: Johannes “Beetlebum” Kretzschmar; Bildredaktion: Theresa Schwär; Studio-Konstruktion: Axel Ganz; Titelmusik: Mario Sixtus; Musik: Miguel Herrero, Walter Well, Likantropika,GeradorZero, DJ Answer; Bildmaterial: Internet Archive, Prelinger Archive; Redaktion ZDF: Bernhard Fritsch, Peter Wagner; Produktion: Blinkenlichten Produktionen im Auftrag des ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit Handelsblatt.com; (c) 2009 ZDF, (cc) by-nc-sa

(video from This American Life illustrates how cameras change our behavior) Interesting article from TechCrunch about Fort Hood and the state of Citizen Journalism: Excerpt: For all of our talk about “the world watching”, what good did social media actually do for the people of Iran? Did the footage out of the country actually change the outcome of the elections? No. Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar green and pretending to be in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in power. It’s astonishing, really. Despite how successful ten million actual voters marching through Washington, London and other major cities in 2003 were in stopping the invasion of Iraq, a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran. …none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something, or post a video on YouTube or check-in using someone’s address on Foursquare. It’s just what we do now, no matter whether we’re heading out for dinner or witnessing a massacre on an Army base. Like Lord of the Flies, or the Stanford Prison Experiment , as long as we’re all losing our perspective at the same time – which, as a generation growing up with social media we are – then we don’t realise that our humanity is leaking away until its too late. Chuck Olsen chimes in: I think your cautionary warning is a good one. We should take a step back and consider our shifting personal and social boundaries. That doesn’t mean you should condemn the entirety of citizen journalism, and in fact you haven’t presented a case for that. I co-founded a citizen journalism non-profit called The UpTake, and we’re proud to have produced stories not seen elsewhere, either because corporate media outlets didn’t have enough monetary interest (MN senate recount) or we simply had more people on the street with cameras (RNC). A single eyewitness twitter report from inside an army base, or a single child’s statement that his brother was in the balloon — unverified reports from a single source should always be met with healthy skepticism. We simply have more raw news and opinion streaming over and around us. We have to be smarter news consumers and triangulate the truth.

The Golden Age of Video: AWESOME video mashup by Ricardo Autobahn! http://www.ricardoautobahn.co.uk (via spraynetdotcodotuk)

Wer einen Kredit braucht, geht zur Bank, fragt einen Freund oder - wendet sich an andere Nutzer im Internet. Online-Plattformen für so genannte P2P-Kredite wollen sich als Alternative zum Bankkredit etablieren. Wie eine Mischung aus Ebay und Facebook organisieren sie einen Marktplatz für Geld, auf dem Kreditwünsche und Anlagegelder - von “Person to Person” (P2P) - zusammengeführt werden. Neben harten Bonitätskriterien und dem Zusammenspiel von Angebot und Nachfrage, bestimmen auch weiche Faktoren wie persönliche Profile oder die Beschreibung der geplanten Kreditverwendung den Zinssatz. Der Elektrische Reporter erklärt, wie die Sache mit dem geliehenes Geld aus dem Web funktioniert und untersucht, ob Anbieter wie Smava, Prosper oder Zopa den Banken wirklich gefährlich werden können. Mitwirkende: Alexander Artopé, Chris Larsen, Claus Lehmann, Bernd Skiera, Jörg Schwieder, Arpita Gosh; Autoren: Julius Endert, Mario Sixtus; Mitarbeit: Janko Röttgers; Kamera: Iris Jungels, Eddie Codel; Schnitt: Dominic Kennedy, Arne Bönninghoff; Sprecher: Petra Bröcker, Torsten Altenhöner; Zeichnungen: Johannes “Beetlebum” Kretzschmar; Bildredaktion: Iris Jungels, Theresa Schwär; Studio-Konstruktion: Axel Ganz; Titelmusik: Mario Sixtus; Musik: Ehma, Serphonic, Nerious; Bildmaterial: Internet Archive, Prelinger Archive; Redaktion ZDF: Bernhard Fritsch, Peter Wagner; Produktion: Blinkenlichten Produktionen im Auftrag des ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit Handelsblatt.com; (c) 2009 ZDF, (cc) by-nc-sa