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On this episode of Spark: Collaboration
- The Spark community collaborates on the show’s script
- Kevin Lawver and Saffron write very short stories called Ficlets
- In a world of collaboration, Tom Howell defends idiosyncrasy
- Michael Kinsley tells the story of the LA Times Wikitorial
- Calendar Girl makes a collaborative record through Calendar Songs (full interview)
- Howard Rheingold on collaborative technology and collective action (full interview)
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Oslodum 2004” by DJ Dolores
- “Naughty Hula Eyes” by Andy Iona
- “22 o1 107 1.wav” and “22 o1 107 1.wav” by ERH
- “picked_slide.wav” by alikirodgers
- “string noise.wav” and “picked_slide.wav” by sleep
- “October – mellow house” by teru
- “scratch323.wav” by junggle
- “Twelve ( In the End )” by Loveshadow
- “scratch344_looped.wav” by junggle
- “2006 October” by Pitx
- “October” by Eskimo Esque
- “Do What You Can” from Backtime by Lee Rosevere
Very special thanks to everyone from the Spark community who collaborated on this episode, including: Luke Closs, Dianne Davis, Greg Demetrick, Toy Soldier Fedak, John Guise, Ed Hawco, N Herman, Craig Hubley, Glenn Jackman, Harold Jarche, JZ, Brett Knoss, Farrell McGovern, Kirby McInnis, Russell McOrmond, brian moffatt, Christian Nally, Robert Nunnally, Raj Patel, pleather, Lorry, Luke, and Paul Zablosky.
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Good show! Always fun and informative. Very cool idea to make use of the web in such a positive way.
Ummm..anybody want to buy a slightly used glockenspiel?
Ha! Thanks Teru!
Listened with great interest to the show that you created using the Wiki. I have to say I agree somewhat with Tom’s view. I used to be a broadcaster, I was a producer of a show for a community radio station, and I had one volunteer constantly try to direct the flow.
He was more interested in bashing the government of the day and talked on subjects outside the scope of the show, it was on disabilities. And while it was sometimes doable it was not always doable to do a story on say housing for the disabled every week, or bashing the government.
Needless to say at the end of my contract I handed him the reigns and the show promptly went off the air.
My point is that some control and direction is needed even in a collective. You have themes and storyboards etc etc and I think it is great that people jump on in and add on things, but if it does not make sense then the idea and in some cases the story should by all means get dumped.
Cliff
I missed this initially, but I’m glad I got the chance to hear it. Especially since I am totally, completely addicted to Ficlets.com. It is a wonderful website with some really amazing people, both as authors and just as really nice folks. And, as an aspiring author, myself, the collaborative atmosphere helps me become a better writer. Probably my favourite site at this time.
Closing the loop — Ficlets is no more: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/01/ficlets-is-goin.html
On a somewhat related note, Journalspace died recently due to bad administration: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Jp4NG2FxWkw/hard-lessons-in-the-importance-of-backups-journalspace-wiped-out
We’re giving more and more of our identities away to google, facebook and the like. What will we do when they go away (or start charging for service) too? What if google decides to be evil?