Open & Crowdsourced
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
OpenMedia.ca | Engage, Educate, Empower
By Tavia Grant for the Globe and Mail Canadian businesses and governments are lagging several western nations in the “Internet economy” and are being warned that they risk falling even further behind unless they take immediate and more aggressive action. The Internet contributed $49-billion to Canada’s gross domestic product last year, representing 3 per cent of the country’s economy, a report to be released Monday by the Boston Consulting Group estimates.
Open Culture
Today we’re bringing you a roundup of some of the great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian classics available on the web. And what better way to get started than with Aldous Huxley reading a dramatized recording of his 1932 novel, Brave New World . The reading aired on the CBS Radio Workshop in 1956. You can listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here .
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music , film , art , technology , design , food , publishing and other creative fields. A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project.
Kickstarter
I'm Elena Moon Park, and along with all-ages musician Dan Zanes and his label Festival Five Records, I will be recording an album of reinterpreted folk and children's songs from East Asia. It's an album we've been wanting to make for years. We are trying something new with this album: that is to appeal directly to our listeners, supporters, friends and peers to make it happen. With your help we will be able to record these songs in collaboration with a fantastic, diverse and wide-ranging community of musicians and artists.
Rabbit Days & Dumplings: family folk music from East Asia by Elena Moon Park — Kickstarter
About this project BREAKING NEWS: Oh snap! We've reached our goal but keep those pledges coming! We have additional costs associated with the space that could use your support. See "71 POP $ Breakdown" pie chart below. — 71 POP — Artists Create, We Do The Rest
71 POP: Detroit Pop-Up Shop for Emerging Artists by Margarita Barry — Kickstarter
Conectarte Conference Juárez by Kerry Doyle — Kickstarter
About this project Despite the violence that rages throughout Ciudad Juarez, scores of artist collectives around the city continue to create art, engage youth, and improve the lives of people in their communities. Conectarte: 10 Years of Collectives and Communities in Juarez is an unprecedented attempt to gather and celebrate the experience of these artist collectives. It has been organized by a group of artists and activists from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso and will take place April 8th and 9th on the campus of the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez. The conference includes multimedia presentations by artist groups from around the city and an exhibition and interchange of art and ideas between the collectives.A crowdfunded series premiere exclusive to VODO, the first instalment of this slick, dark Sci-Fi thriller follows the unfolding mystery and tensions of an interstellar research... Pioneer One (2010) A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere.
VODO
Pioneer One (2010)
A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere. A US Department of Homeland Security investigation has uncovered a live human being in a Soviet space suit in an unstable condition. A note in Russian, found at the crash site, claims the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars. Taylor prepares to go to the public with Yuri's story, and everyone discovers the consequences of their actions in the conclusion to Pioneer One's first season.
