Joy Shirt - Your Face on Someone Else's Shirt

I came across this site/service recently.

http://www.joytshirt.com/

In their words, it works like this:

1. Select a portrait of someone you don't know.  Click on their thumbnail to read about them & to start building your shirt.

2. Customize your own T-shirt. All shirts are Sweatshop free and  made from certified organic cotton or bamboo.

3. Wait for your marvelous Joy T-shirt to arrive in the mail. We ship our shirts all over the world.

4. Take a stand for Global Awareness:  Wear your shirt and think about the person printed over your heart.

5. Upload your photo via the Participate link to have your photo drawn by hand and worn on the hearts of others!

Cool idea!

Universe = Creativity

I like the sentiment of this post.

http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/chrisckemp/posts/index.html?cdt=1238073179193

But the comparing the universe to a database is quite ignorant, and frankly missing the point.  The universe is closer to "creativity", rather then a store of data IMHO.  The essence of art-perception, rather then some repository of data for us to look up with query strings and T-SQL commands...

Fwd: Crunch year for worlds forests

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7963489.stm

Fwd: Twitter Vid - Ha!

> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8puil_twouble-with-twitter-soustitre_creation

Fwd: Just Thank You

An interesting insight into what a Facebook app can do for traffic.  I'm not super engaged in this site, nor have I seen the app, but the numbers were interesting.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jason Goldberg <jason@socialmedian.com>

Date: 24 March 2009 10:03:13 AM

To: gdyke@fantasysportsreality.com

Subject: Just Thank You

We launched Facebook Connect on socialmedian last Monday.  It enables people to login to socialmedian using their Facebook accounts and then easily share news from socialmedian onto Facebook.  It really emphasizes the notion of "the news filtered by your network" that we've been going for here at socialmedian.

 

One week later:

• We had a 5% increase in total new socialmedian subscribers last week.
• We saw a 30% increase in total pageviews last week over any of the past 12 weeks. That's incredible.
• 25% of the visitors to socialmedian in the past week visited more than 5 times.  Also incredible.

Thanks. 

 

BIG thanks! ... and please, keep pushing us to do better.

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Interesting Read, Re: Design at Google

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Linked Data Talk at TED

Hey Guys,

I just watched this very interesting talk on "Linked Data" at TED.
Beyond being interesting, it is also somewhat pertinent to GDR and the
DB's we hold there.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

This kind of runs back on some of the semantic web stuff I was on
about a couple of years back. I'm not sure that I have an immediate
application in mind, but it is still very interesting to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

Also don't see a business story... yet.

Enjoy!

George

PS I couldn't hit the DB Pedia application link he was talking about
as the site seemed to be down, but that application also looks very
interesting. And not unlike some of the stuff I am (slowly) trying to
do with the GDR buzz functionality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia