Romain Goday on Content Curation: Why Detecting Emerging Patterns Is Crucial

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Romain Goday on: Why Good Curators Need to Identify Emerging Patterns Before Others?

"It is critical to detect emerging patterns in information early to be an effective content curator. Pattern detection is important for a few reasons:

If there is an emerging pattern, there’s something going on...

Patterns provide insights on the significance of an event...

Patterns demonstrate how events evolve...

Patterns link together pieces of the information puzzle...

Understanding patterns helps to identify experts..."

Read the full post for Goday's insights on these points

Wow. Netflix Gets Exclusive 'Arrested Development' Streaming Rights For New Season via HuffingtonPost

The media-streaming giant has signed an exclusive deal to resurrect acclaimed comedy series "Arrested Development."

New episodes will be available only to Netflix streaming subscribers in the U.S. in 2013.

"For the first time in their histories, Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine Television will produce original first-run entertainment content for the world's leading internet subscription service, bringing back the acclaimed series to production on all new episodes five years after its cancellation," read Netflix's press release.

"Netflix's bold entrance into original programming presents an exciting new opportunity for our two companies," Fox Filmed Entertainment's President of New Media & Digital Distribution Peter Levinsohn was quoted in the release. "Bringing a classic show back to production on new episodes exclusively for Netflix customers is a game changer, and illustrates the incredible potential the new digital landscape affords great content providers like Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine."

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Music to think by: Q&A with David Lynch on his debut album (Wired UK)

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David Lynch has made cult films and Tv series such as Twin Peaks. His debut album is no less psychologically intense.

Wired has a (surreal) chat with Lynch about his music and the mind.

Wired: The subconscious is a recurring theme in your visual work. How has it translated onto your album, Crazy Clown Time?

David Lynch: Well, I always say if it's subconscious, we don't know it: you can feel it, you can sense it. But when an idea enters the conscious mind, you really know it. So in music, the ideas come along in a flow -- until you get something that feels correct.

Listening to the album encourages the mind to wander. Is music more effective than film at penetrating the subconscious?
A film can get to where music does -- and that's one thing I love about cinema, it can "say" abstractions. But music is pure abstraction and it's really beautiful. You can get things where people weep and they don't know why, but the music is so powerful it can stir the mind.

You sing throughout the album, manipulating your voice. How do you think digital tools affect identity?
These tools are there to help you get it to feel correct. And so the more tools you have, the better off you are.

So all the digital tools we have available, whether it's Twitter or Facebook, allow us to correct ourselves?
Yes, exactly. They may not represent us, but they represent something that feels correct. And so with a song, you work on it, but it doesn't feel right. You keep working on it and you use all these tools and you experiment. You act and then you react until, lo and behold, it feels correct.

As a Twitter user, do you think social media is leading to a super-consciousness?
There's an ocean of pure vibrance -- fullness of consciousness -- at the base of all matter and mind. Always has been there, always will be. Now, if you heighten that in the individual, it leads to enlightenment -- that's super-consciousness. If you heighten that in the world, it brings a higher collective consciousness. But it won't happen because of Twitter...."

i-docs 2012 Conference in Bristol | Call for Participation -

Call for Participation

Following the success of i-Docs 2011, we are delighted to invite your participation in i-Docs 2012, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary.

i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi on behalf of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol. The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23th of March 2012.

This year’s symposium will be organized around four topical questions that emerged from i-Docs 2011. Each question will be covered by a keynote speaker, a panel-based discussion and one (or more) workshops. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, presentations of work and other alternative forms of debate around the following questions:

1. User participation in i-docs: how can the act of participating change the meaning of an i-doc?

Where is the participation happening: within the i-doc or around it?
When and why do people want to participate? Is participation an inherently good thing?
What are the ethics of participation: where to stop and where to push?
How do strategies of participation affect the creation of meaning within an i-doc?

2. Layered experience, augmented reality games and pervasive media: are locative i-docs changing our notion of physical experience and space?
Is pervasive technology an effective way to layer the experience of reality?
How does our perception of space change in locative and augmented reality i-docs?
What are the consequences and ethics of tagging content to a place?
How do user experience and design issues effect the planning of a “real world” experience?

3. Activism and ethics: how can i-docs be used to develop new strategies for activism?
Is combining information with role-play opening activism to a younger audience?
Is implicating the user in moral dilemmas an ethical /effective strategy?
Where does an i-doc end and social media activism begin?
How does activism fit with emerging business models for i-docs?

4. Open source and the semantic web: how are tagging video, HTML5 and the semantic web opening up new routes for i-docs?
What new relationships are being created between documentary recordings and live data feeds?
Where does the role of the author lie in an open source i-doc? Are producers becoming curators?
What is the production cycle of an open source i-doc? Is it a finite or continuously evolving entity?
Are users browsers or co-creators of meaning? How can deep engagement be encouraged?

Proposals for both paper and project presentations should be sent to: idocs.symposium@gmail.com by Monday, 21st of November 2011. The proposal should clearly outline your intentions in no more than 300 words. Links to further visual materials may be provided, where appropriate. Proposals for alternate formats and/or workshops are also welcome.

Martin Lindstrom on Brand Ethics - 10 Ethical Brand Guidelines- well worth reading & mulling on - can you do this?

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The new ethical guideline for companies of the social media age

These 10 Ethical Guidelines were developed based on research and votes by more than 2,000 consumers. They identified these guidelines to be the 10 most important Ethical Guidelines they’d like companies to follow. I would like to open the votes on the top 10 Ethical Guidelines guidelines to a second round of voting, with you, in order to identify the top 5 Ethical Guidelines. Please join me in creating this important set of guidelines to help improve the ethics of brands everywhere.

as the examples are on site - read the full post!

http://www.martinlindstrom.com/ethics/#

Joe Gebbia: Be Successful By Owning The Story [Video] @PSFK

Some highlights from the talk:

  • The first step is curiosity – get your audience hooked and interacting with the product or idea
  • You must have and own a story. The story is everything.
  • Once the story goes beyond your community, it must be re-localized in the culture and dialogue of other communities in order to have global success.
  • Tips and the progression of distribution, and how to let the product or idea do the work for you.
  • How to get the story into the media without spending a lot – or any – money.

Very Cool: Wearable Sensors Offer Real-Time Snowboarding Performance And ‘Stoked’ Readouts @PSFK

Excerpt from original post/interview by Timothy Ryan with Stuart Wells, Global Marketing Partnerships, Nokia on November 15, 2011

TR: Please tell us about the Push Snowboarding collaboration between Nokia and Burton. What is the idea and goal behind the platform?

SW: Rather than just tell people about Nokia’s latest powerful product, the Nokia N8, we developed a piece of new technology which placed the smartphone at the heart of a sensor ecosystem to provide insights into snowboarding that hadn’t been seen before.

We designed, tested and produced wearable sensors, simultaneously connected via Bluetooth to the N8, that gave snowboarders live tracking of their ride: speed, heart rate, airtime, rotation and even ‘rush’ – a measure of how anxious or “stoked” a rider was when on the mountain.

We then tested this technology with Burton professional snowboarders around the world at top snowboarding competitions. We documented every stage on film and shared it online, at experiential events and through mainstream media coverage.

The project culminated with a sponsorship presence at Burton’s US Open competition where the public was invited to test the kit themselves in the resort.

The development of the innovation was shared with the world as it happened. In this case, the product development was the marketing...."

via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/wearable-sensors-offer-real-time-snowboarding-per...

Love this: German Designer Benedikt Groß on Making Mental Maps Manifest via/ @PSFK

 My idea was not only to collect mental maps of Vauxhall, but also to combine these mental maps with real world map data to “interpolate,” or in a way, to fill the white spots of the mental maps with data of the realities. I was hoping to gain with these mashup maps new insights in terms how people “see” Vauxhall e.g.: how is the space order around them? are there things they would like to change? What is important for them?

Benedikt asked residents of Vauxhall to draw maps of their neighborhood, then matched the mental and real world maps with the tools he wrote. Here’s the result:

While not visually spectacular, Benedikt’s project lays the groundwork for reexamining how we interact with, remember and represent large urban areas. With more development, the implications for urban planning, retail placement, transport and public policy could be huge.