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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

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Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. in kenzo, machinimatographer~

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

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What if you could invite other people from the around the world to have discussions about those images? What if you could become part of an online community that contributes images of similar topics for you to consume? Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won!

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests. The Victoria & Albert Museum’s World Beach Project is a wonderful contributory project in which people around the world make artworks on beaches per institutional specifications and submit images of their work to a central website.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API Many people are experimenting with mashups using Google, eBay, Amazon, Windows Live, and Yahoos APIs. Examples of Mashups. Images: Flickr.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

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Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. 2) Crowd Creation.

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