October 2009
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Casey Pugh: May the (crowd)Force be with you
Casey Pugh is leading a fan remake of Star Wars. (Courtesy: Casey Pugh)
Thanks to Casey Pugh, fans from around the world are joining forces to recreate the iconic Star Wars: A New Hope. Casey split the film into 15-second scenes and has allowed anyone to claim a scene, film it, and upload it! He’ll then stitch the whole thing back together.
Why Star Wars?
When the idea was first forming,...
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Jessamyn West: AskMe anything, in moderation
Jessamyn West, also known as ‘teh mod’ of MetaFilter. (Courtesy: Jessamyn West)
When community weblog MetaFilter recently celebrated its 10th birthday, many offered plaudits citing it as an exceptionally civil online community. At least some of the credit must go to AskMetafilter moderator Jessamyn West. I asked her what it takes to keep a huge online community on track.
You’re...
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Jarbas Agnelli: Where the birds may take him
Jarbas Agnelli’s Birds on the Wires video
When most people look at a photo of birds on powerlines, they see birds on powerlines. But Jarbas Agnelli sees music, and his creative impulse to make the birds’ song a reality swept around the internet.
Tell us about the inspiration for the Birds on the Wires video. How did it come about?
I was eating breakfast and reading a newspaper...
September 2009
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Arjun Basu: It was a dark and stormy Tweet
Arjun Basu: A master of micro stories. (Courtesy: Jane Heller)
Arjun Basu is a Montreal-based writer who’s composed hundreds of tiny stories, each one exactly 140 characters long, on Twitter. Many of his ‘Twisters’, as he’s dubbed them, capture moments in time that somehow manage to tell much larger stories than you’d think possible. Arjun’s Twitter stream has...