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  1. 99% Invisible-66- Kowloon Walled City | 99% Invisible

    Kowloon Walled City was the densest place in the world, ever.

    By its peak in the 1990s, the 6.5 acre Kowloon Walled City was home to at least 33,000 people (with estimates of up to 50,000). That’s a population density of at least 3.2 million per square mile. For New York City to get that dense, every man, woman, and child living in Texas would have to move to Manhattan.

    To put it another way, think about living in a 1,200 square foot home. Then imagine yourself living with 9 other people. Then imagine that your building is only one unit of a twelve-story building, and every other unit is as full as yours. Then imagine hundreds those buildings crammed together in a space the size of four football fields.

    http://99percentinvisible.prx.org/2012/11/19/99-invisible-66-kowloon-walled-city/

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  2. 7 Billion: It’s getting crowded in here!

    High density living is great for the environment, right? But what does it do to our heads and hearts? The Australian psyche was moulded by the myth of the ‘wide brown land’, so what might life packed like sardines look and feel like? With the world’s seven billionth person about to be born, can we learn from the Asian megacity experience? And will we still be sharing a cup of sugar with our neighbours? As the population debate gets mental, we’re going in search of the soul in urban sprawl. A forum featuring Bernard Salt, Kim Dovey, Helen Killmier, and Sein-Way Tan, hosted by ABC Radio National’s Natasha Mitchell at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.

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  3. The City Is A Platform

    Cities abound in data generated by their inhabitants (virtual worlds, city websites) and created automatically by systems or monitoring. How does this online manifestation of the city interact in tangible ways with urban design and informal urban constructs? Is there such a thing as "the street as platform"?

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  4. Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture

    What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City? How has the embrace of "new media" by so-called "digital natives" facilitated the formation of transnational, digital publics? More important, what are the local effects of such practices, and why do they seem to generate such hostile responses and anxiety about the future?

    Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist, blogger, DJ, and, beginning this year, a Mellon Fellow in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT. His research focuses on the production and circulation of popular music, especially across the Americas and in the wider world, and the role that digital technologies are playing in the formation of new notions of community, selfhood, and nationhood.

    http://cms.mit.edu/news/2009/11/podcast_skinny_jeans_and_fruit.php

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  5. The Real Social Networks

    James’s new book, “Connected”… Unintentionally influencing your friend’s friend’s friend… How happiness is like the flu… Obesity spreads like an idea …… … but don’t try to lose weight by dumping your fat friends… An old shampoo commercial, voting, and Facebook pseudo-friends…

    http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/23217

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  6. OSI Forum: Organizing in the Obama Era

    Organizing in the Obama Era The Perils and Promise of Civic Mobilization

    The Obama campaign vividly demonstrated the power of mass civic participation. But many organizers still struggle with questions of efficacy and legitimacy. Panelists addressed the following questions:

    * Can we mobilize large groups of people while also fostering a sense of engagement by individual participants?
* How can an organization’s members hold their leaders accountable?
* What distinct challenges arise when working with communities that face social, economic, or political marginalization?
* How can we apply lessons from electoral campaigns, which are date-specific and focused on candidates, to community- and issue-based organizing?

    Veteran organizers Zack Exley, Ai-jen Poo and Zephyr Teachout discussed these and other questions as they drew lessons from past mobilizations—including the Dean and Kerry campaigns, Domestic Workers United, MoveOn.org and others—and offered ideas for building grassroots power today.

    Bill Vandenberg, director of the Open Society Institute Democracy and Power Fund, introduced the panel.

    http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/events/organizing_20090507

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  7. Mixergy: Seth Godin On How To Build And Lead Your Tribe

    Godin gives a top-level understanding of how to build your community, a good followup to this presentation is my interview with Max Alexander about the tactics of creating groups.

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  8. SXSW 09: Not the Same Old Story

    If the web provides so many ways to connect with audiences, why are we all stuck telling the same story with our designs? Hear from a panel of storytelling experts on the importance of narrative and art direction online to break away from static and boring experiences.

    Jason Santa Maria

    Daniel Burka, Digg/Pownce

    Nicholas Felton, feltron.com

    Emily Gordon, emdashes.com / printmag.com

    Ian Adelman, nymag.com

    http://sxsw.com/node/1456

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  9. Kathy Sierra & Tim O’Reilly: Creating Passionate Users

    Kathy Sierra and Tim O’Reilly discuss the principles behind "creating passionate users" and how this energizes and increases consumers. They discuss how in today’s competitive marketplace, every business is looking for an edge. This typically forces business leaders to face the challenge of making their products different. However, that can be more difficult than it sounds and the business landscape is littered with the carcasses of companies who failed to differentiate themselves or their products

    http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3946.html

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  10. First Monday - November 2008: Rethinking Remix

    First Monday Podcast interviews Lawrence Lessig about his new book Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. Podcast Editors AJ Hannah and Joy Austria take on Remix - what worked, what didn’t and what ideas were left out of the mix. Lastly, Jennifer Kelley reviews NPR: Technology Podcast.

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