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My name is Conrad Lisco, and this is my blog, where I post odds and ends, things and thoughts.
I work at R/GA in the Mobile & Emerging Platforms group. I'm most interested in the intersection of technology and culture. Addicted to location-based services. Live in Chinatown and love sneakers and street art.
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These two music videos for Akira Kosemura's upcoming album, Grasslands, were shot entirely on a non-video iPhone 3G, using the QuadCamera app. Amazing.
"I had my iPhone with me and I had a medical app on there, so I was able to look up treatment of excessive bleeding and compound fracture," Woolley said. "So I used my shirt to tie my leg and a sock on the back of my head. And later used it for other things, like to diagnose shock"
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. Salman Khan has produced over 1,100 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic math to statistics, biology and physics.
Millions of people (about 8MM) around the world have tuned into his channel for free instruction, and in a way that can be accessed on-demand at a student's own pace. According to Khan, 70,000 students visit each month and watch 35,000 videos a day, with 2 million minutes of instructional video delivered in the past week.
Other non-profit groups have started distributing off-line versions of his library to rural and underserved areas in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It’s amazing how the Internet is helping to democratize education. No longer will proximity to “good” schools and deep pockets prevent people (mostly in developing worlds) from learning.
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Everyone's familiar with the "unboxing" phenomenon where people film themselves removing new gadgets from their packages. Well, Google has taken it one step further with the Nexus One.
Adam Brown, Head of Social Media at Coca-Cola discusses their new social media guidelines. It's worth noting that a global company like Coca-Cola can distill guidelines into three pages. The entire document is available here: http://bit.ly/62LhLA.
Coca-Cola's 10 “Principles for Online Spokespeople”:
1. Be Certified in the Social Media Certification Program.
2. Follow our Code of Business Conduct and all other Company policies.
3. Be mindful that you are representing the Company.
4. Fully disclose your affiliation with the Company.
5. Keep records.
6. When in doubt, do not post.
7. Give credit where credit is due and don’t violate others’ rights.
8. Be responsible to your work.
9. Remember that your local posts can have global significance.
10. Know that the Internet is permanent.
