We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties.

Basically there’s more and more money being spent on live shows and, consequently, more money going…

We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties.

Basically there’s more and more money being spent on live shows and, consequently, more money going…

A quick update: GOOD now has a profile on StumbleUpon, the internet exploration site. We’ve found it to be pretty useful (and fun). Our profile, in case you want to have a look at it, is here.

One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…

One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…

Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch:

It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember.

As far as…

Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch:

It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember.

As far as…

This is a lot like ad-art. It’ll replace your internet ads with messages from charities and nonprofits.

Original article: Change ads with the DoGooder plugin – Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns

Sesame Street turned 40 yesterday. Here’s a clip from the show of Grover and a kid exploring the essence of marriage.

I think they hit all the most important points. Keep up the good work, guys.

Via Boing Boing.

Sesame Street turned 40 yesterday. Here’s a clip from the show of Grover and a kid exploring the essence of marriage.

I think they hit all the most important points. Keep up the good work, guys.

Via Boing Boing.

A quick update: GOOD now has a profile on StumbleUpon, the internet exploration site. We’ve found it to be pretty useful (and fun). Our profile, in case you want to have a look at it, is here.

Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch:

It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember.

As far as…

Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch:

It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember.

As far as…

This is a lot like ad-art. It’ll replace your internet ads with messages from charities and nonprofits.

Original article: Change ads with the DoGooder plugin – Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns

Sesame Street turned 40 yesterday. Here’s a clip from the show of Grover and a kid exploring the essence of marriage.

I think they hit all the most important points. Keep up the good work, guys.

Via Boing Boing.

Sesame Street turned 40 yesterday. Here’s a clip from the show of Grover and a kid exploring the essence of marriage.

I think they hit all the most important points. Keep up the good work, guys.

Via Boing Boing.

have people heard of Ad.ly. Pretty interesting to connect individuals and advertisers like this. Kind of paid word of mouth. You could voice potential concerns from an editorial integrity stand point, but you could also see a future where individuals get to endorse the brands they believe in and get paid for it. Just met the founder, and he seems to be a really good guy so I look forward to seeing where this goes…

Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown.

I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe…

Global Voices, defenders of free speech online, have launched a new tool called Threatened Voices that lets you look up where bloggers have been arrested or threatened by their governments. China, Iran, and Egypt look particularly bad. And here in the States, Elliott Madison was arresed for using Twitter to help G20 protesters evade the cops.

Via Boing Boing.

The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.

Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…

One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…

One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…

A Case Study

This past summer, as Iran was gripped by street protests and violent government crackdowns, the reporting in the U.S. media left much to be desired. How do you get news out of a country that barely tolerates reporters? For many, the answer was the Tehran Bureau, a scrappy website run by Kelly Niknejad that published reports from Iran alongside commentary from knowledgeable sources. Soon, the site was being quoted and cited across the news…

The Grey Lady Lets Her Hair Down

Old-media companies are no longer the cultural gatekeepers they once were. Shrinking production costs and effortless distribution of new media have eroded their monopoly on great content. As feisty start-ups and armchair auteurs crowd the landscape, these publishing bulwarks are being forced to take more risks. Here are some of our favorite successful shots in the dark.

The New York Times

The otherwise-conservative editors at The New York Times send the illustrator and…

Global Finance

The best explanation of the financial crisis can be found on NPR.

Like the housing crisis, NPR’s popular new business-reporting unit began with a Giant Pool of Money. The so-named 2008 radio special provided the clearest, most logical explanation of the housing crisis around. Plus, somehow the explanation was fun, like eavesdropping on two very smart friends chatting over a beer. It helps that hosts Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg actually are old friends, interested more…

You’ve seen the pink ribbons, but do you know how many American women actually get breast cancer? One in eight. While America may have the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, other countries are catching up, thanks to changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to carcinogens. We don’t have a cure, but this is our video version of the awareness ribbon. We hope it helps.