Star Wars Uncut nominated for an Interactive Emmy

Star Wars Uncut has been nominated for an Interactive Emmy

Kind of unbelievable news! Read more on Casey’s blog.

Check out our Emmy submission reel here, or an excerpt from the final edit. And the original SWU trailer:

Know Your Meme in TIME's Top 50 websites 2009

Know Your Meme was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2009!

We wrote our first scientismic episodes in Dec 2007, and I built the first version of the Internet Meme Database knowyourmeme.com website in Dec 2008. It’s seen amazing growth — we’re now at more than 500 meme entries, 10,000 images, and will serve over 5 million pageviews this month!

INTERNET RICH talk @ Non-Motivational Speaker Series

Reblogged from Gelf Magazine:

Hacker-entrepreneur Jamie Wilkinson came to the Non-Motivational Speaker Series to talk about his Internet Famous course at Parson’s School of Design, the “first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.”

For those who couldn’t make it, below are highlights from the night. Click here for photos.

Internet Famous Class on Current TV

“In the Internet Famous class at Parson’s New School, students blog, facebook, twitter, and digg their way to internet fame and hopefully an A.” [link]

Doc was produced by Ben Stein and shot & directed by Eric Juhola and Jeremy Stulberg of Still Point Pictures

Much more coming from Famo soon, stay tuned!

Firefox Art panel at ROFLTHING 1/24/09

I’ll be moderating a panel at the upcoming ROFLCON NYC event on Saturday Jan. 24th about Firefox art projects with fellow F.A.T. Lab members Steve Lambert (Add-Art and NYTimes Special Edition) and Tobias Leingruber (China Channel and Pirates of the Amazon).

We’ll also be talking about ArtZilla, our new repository for Firefox add-on projects usually denied from listing on the addons.mozilla.org universe for being “useless art.”

New York City ROFLThing
When: January 24th, 2009
Where: Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan, NY)

Featuring Alexis Ohanian (Reddit), Charlie Todd (Improv Everywhere), the creator of Comic Sans, the founder of 4chan, Bre Pettis and a host of others to be announced.

text post reblogged from slambert

Wikiswarm: visualize Wikipedia page histories

A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. People who edit a lot drift toward the center. Best watched full screen in HD on Vimeo

Made using code_swarm and my new Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby), which uses the Wikipedia API to convert page edit histories into the code_swarm activity log format. There’s also experimental support for visualizing individual users’ contributions.

For info on how to generate your own wikiswarms read on…

Oprah's Linux Club

Join me and Steve Lambert Oct. 4th for the inaugural Oprah’s Linux Club. All manner of experience levels welcome. And, of course, free Chevy Tahoes under every seat!

3 – 6pm Oct. 4th 2008 at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St

Add-Art 0.8 for Firefox 3

Replace ads with art better than ever! Add-Art version 0.8 is out! Click here to install

Ayah Bdeir doing a show about Arab culture. Stewing up plans to allow anyone to host a gallery, check out dev.eyebeam.org

Also exciting new Add-Art screencast by Ol’ Slambert... now with hip-hop!

Meme Breaks 1.0

A demonstration of the new Meme Breaks 1.0 scratch record, which compiles the Internets’ most famous audio samples into DJ-friendly format.

Instrumental: Black Star – Respiration

from jamiew on Vimeo

More info & download at jamiedubs.com/meme-breaks

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