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May 4, 2008

New Remix - Drastic Independence

On my Premixed album last year, I had included a remix version of my song "More than 2 Sides" by fourstones that was pretty good, but I actually think that this new version, titled "Drastic Independence" (free mp3) by CCmixter artist radiotimes, is actually better.

Radiotimes' description: "This is another worthy wordy offering featuring the great vox and words of Colin Mutchler. Kept the arrangement to a minimum to emphasise the words just added some harmony and a bit of Duane Eddyish guitar to break it up a bit"

It reminds me about the value of sharing via the internet. If when you think a piece of culture or expression has run it's course, someone picks it up and makes something even better with it. Thanks radiotimes!

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April 29, 2008

Obama in 30 seconds - 15 Finalists

Check out the Finalists.

I think my favorites are:

Positive Vision:

Targeted at Republicans:

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April 5, 2008

Social Innovation Camp in London this weekend

This weekend in East London is what looks like an amazing first of it's kind event that hopefully will be replicated across the world soon. Based on the Barcamp / Unconference events that have blown up over the last year or so, Social Innovation Camp puts teams of techies with social entrepreneurs whose 5 ideas have been chosen before the weekend event.

My housemate Seth actually submitted one of the selected ideas, which is Stuffshare, Freecycle meets Street Car . The idea that actually seems the most similar to my own vision for Open Green is Barcode Wikipedia:

A site for storing user-generated information – such as carbon footprint, manufacturing conditions and reviews - against a product, identified by its barcode number.

Even though I'm a bit disappointed to not have submitted an idea to the perfect event for my converging interests (too much of my time focused on my job), it'll be cool to attend the final session tomorrow afternoon.

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Live from my Nokia N95 to you

I found out via rubbishcorp about this interesting app qik that enables live broadcasting from my phone. Of course the challenging part is the lack of permission from people, but we'll see where it takes us.

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March 19, 2008

'A More Perfect Union' - Worth 30 Minutes of your Attention

Read the recent comments from Youtube below.

brendabn87 (2 hours ago)
He is the first 21st century politician. It feels like fate has sent us this man to balance out the folly of the last 8 years -- and sound the death knell of the neo-conservative hoax.

DEEPSERIW
This man is Great, like him or hate him, he's man of conviction. This speech isn't from a man that just wants to be President, but a man that wants a America for Mankind, and a better future for all.

labohemianartist (2 hours ago)
did he write this? beautiful

Boomdog14 (2 hours ago)
This speech will be added to high school curricula for generations to come.

sgilman (2 hours ago)
He penned the entire speech.

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