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PSFK recently asked our global network of experts, The Purple List for their thoughts on the future of journalism. We received answers that imagine a variety of possible scenarios, though a common theme emerged which points to a system that combines crowd-sourcing with some kind of editorial curation and professional reporting. If you want to [...]
A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars. According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the [...]
Artist Jonathan Harris has just announced the release of an interesting project he’s been working on over the last two tears with Sputnik, Inc., a NYC-based nonprofit dedicated to documenting, archiving and disseminating ideas that are shaping contemporary culture. Named Sputnik Observatory, the project is a fascinating collection of inter-connected video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in [...]
21st Century Plowshare went on a mission this past April to transform the urban landscape of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. The group set out to plant wildflower seeds on every single patch of abandoned soil within the neighborhood, creating a massive”urban meadow”. We’ll keep an eye out to watch the results of this interesting rewilding project.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a series of technology initiatives yesterday, all of them designed to increase transparency and improve access to information about City services. A contest called NYC Big Apps will begin in the fall and return as an annual competition to improve government accountability and transparency, as well as engaging New York’s [...]
Mixing a bit of DIY culture with a sense of urgency, a group of volunteer designers, writers and photographers assembled on June 27th in Belgium to produce the 24Hour Magazine - a 47-page digital publication from scratch in the course of a day. And while the effort involved to realize a completed product in such [...]
I had to laugh, when I read the piece in the New York Times about how LinkedIn was asking for volunteers to translate their site into dozens of different languages – Right now, it’s only available in English, Spanish, French and German – So they are looking for fucktards willing to do the job in [...]
10 examples of collaboration between Monocle magazine and brands in their July/August 09 issue. The publisher has worked with Taiwan, Lille and Singapore development boards, a property developer in Tokyo plus brands includi Hyundai, Diageo, Absolut and BMW.
PSFK recently caught up with Karen Bard, the Pop Culture Expert over at eBay. Her insights were a follow-up to our recent coverage on the creation of instant nostalgia.
A quick report from the UK where I witnessed another example of the changing face of news gathering and news reporting The first time I heard the news of Michael Jackson’s death was through news reports on the Sky News cable channel here last night. Although they couldn’t confirm what had happened they were reading [...]
As many magazines go the way of the dodo, other publications are staying strong despite industry woes. A recent survey of listings on eBay show that people are actively sharing issues of their favorites, even from recently defunct magazines.
Domino Magazine, which folded earlier this year, fetches prices across eBay well above the original news-stand price. [...]
Opium has tapped conceptual artist Johnathon Keats to create the front cover for the infinity issue of their magazine. His idea, to write the longest story in the history of humankind. The catch? It’s only nine words long.
Using a a double layer of black ink that masks each word in incrementally darker shades, Keats has conceived of [...]
Some people accept the demise of the physical album as an inevitability, others embrace it. Like Mos Def: He’s releasing his latest album, The Ecstatic, as a T-shirt. How does that work? The T-shirt has The Ecstatic Killer of Sheep-interpolating cover art printed on the front, song titles on the back, and a download [...]
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the French photographer behind film projects like “6 Billion Others,” recently released his latest project called Home that captures the beauty of our planet in a free film stressing the gravity of environmental issues. Arthus-Bertrand pioneered modern aerial photography and this latest project showcases an incredible selection of inspiring images from his ambitious [...]
Metaio—the technology vendor behind the augmented reality retail experience for LEGO (“Digital Box”)—has produced an augmented reality cover for July’s issue of Popular Science. By visiting a page on Popular Science’s website with a computer equipped with a webcam and microphone, visitors are able to see a 3D wind turbine. The piece is also interactive; [...]
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