For the past few months, creative strategy consultant Richard Smith has been running a contest in which he asks designers to redesign the U.S. dollar. On July 4th, Smith announced that Kyle Thompson was the winner of the contest (photo of winning design below). I think Thompson’s winning design is pretty compelling,...
Continue ReadingThe most tweeted about speaker at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum was danah boyd, who gave a presentation entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online.” Full video of her 22 minute talk is embedded below. Enjoy.
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Continue ReadingNews and Blogs Versus Twitter at PDF09
Chuck Fitzpatrick from our ImpactWatch team has a great post up analyzing which themes and speakers from the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum got the most traction on Twitter and in the traditional media and blogs. Folks on Twitter were most excited about talks by danah boyd,...
Continue ReadingPdF09 Twitters From the White House to White Flight: Whatever
A great analysis of the trends and topics that got the most buzz at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum. The data behind the analysis was pulled from our tool, Twitterslurp....
Continue ReadingHere is video of Kansas State Anthropology Professor Michael Wesch’s great talk at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum. The talk is called The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube Culture and the Politics of Authenticity, and is a shorter, more politically focused version of the longer Wesch video I posted a few days back. ...
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