Media Mindfulness

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This portrait, “YouTuber,” reflects a mix between the impulse of early actuality films when the form was still novel, and Warhol’s screen tests, which are motion portraits of fame. This video, of course, is an incomplete picture because there is a lot of other stuff going on at YouTube, mainly sharing media detritus and ephemera [...]

Independent Online Edition > Business News:
The internet video site YouTube says it plans to start sharing its revenue with users. Chad Hurley, co-founder of the site, said YouTube is working on developing ways for its users, who upload videos on to the site, to be paid for the content they have created.

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A case study in how viral media spread. This is from sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling’s blog at Wired.com. It’s an account of the infamous “Macaca” comment by Senate candidate (and now loser) George Allen:
Beyond the Beyond:
According to Vanden Berg, they chose to post the video on YouTube because it was free (simple enough). But [...]

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The ghost of Tibor Kalman, whose tenure at the helm of Colors Magazine revitalized and re-appropiated the language of commercial graphics for social change, seems eerily present behind the creative campaign of Dropping Knowledge. Like a Zen koan, Dropping Knowledge is part playful pun, part serious business. We drop a dime like anonymous tipsters to the cosmic dharma police on nonsensical, idiotic social practices, and we download knowledge like hidden viruses inside protein shell ad phrases.