links for 2010-06-08

Social spume

• Cultivate Your Creativity With These 4 Fair Use Libraries
  Looking for creative content that is also free can be taxing. And when overused, Creative Commons becomes a bore of stock photos and MIDI jingles. Especially when it comes to fair use music, sometimes you just want something more refined and less 8-bit. In comes Moby, who announced Monday the relaunch of mobygratis.com, a fair use site stuffed to the brim wi […]
  Denise Lu
• Adopting the post-obedient mindset
  It's not uncommon for teenagers to whine that there's nothing to do in this town. Or for college students to talk about the limits of their institution, about the paucity of opportunities at the placement office or the lack of campus activities. And of course, those that complain that the boss won't let me. All three complaints are based on a […]
  Seth Godin
• Vine Videos Give Sneak Peek at New Features
  One day before rival Facebook is rumored to announce a Vine competitor, employees of Twitter's video-sharing service teased several of its new features. Co-founders Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov tweeted out Vine videos on Wednesday that gave an early look at the app's upcoming design changes. From each six-second clip, viewers can catch glimpses of f […]
  Anita Li
• Watch Right Now: Andrew W.K. Playing Drums for 24 Hours Straight
  Andrew W.K., the man known for his music but also for his crazy affinity for partying, is playing drums right now. He's been doing it for the last 8 hours or so, and he plans to continue doing it for the next 16 hours Can he pull it off? Well, staying up all night is no problem for Andrew, but playing the drums for an entire day, that's a wee bit m […]
  Stan Schroeder
• LinkedIn Recovering From Outage Due to Possible DNS Hijack
  LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday night The issue, which is now resolved for most users, rerouted the traffic to a domain sales page. LinkedIn, a popular professional social network, acknowledged the issue in a tweet, but did not elaborate Our site is now recovering for some members. We d […]
  Stan Schroeder
• 1,556 Instagrams Make 1 Incredible Stop-Motion Video
  Rumors are floating around that Instagram intends to jump into the world of video-sharing, but the creative duo FriendsInFaux have made their own video from Instagram photos — 1,556 of them, to be exact While the short film's plot follows a casual beach-goer's trials and tribulations, the animation is more than just a straight-forward compilation o […]
  Brie Hiramine
• 'Chime' Instrument Turns City Sounds Into Musical Compositions
  Horns honking, engines running and construction clanging — the urban jungle's daily noises can be hard on the ears, and easy to ignore But Marc De Pape, a self-described "creative technologist" based in Toronto, is encouraging urbanites to tune back in by turning these city sounds into musicDe Pape achieves this through his creation, an instru […]
  Anita Li