Coups de coeur dans les nuages

Isabelle A. 

Music from Human Chromosome 9

The music scans the human chromosome 9 at a rate of about a million bases in one second. Melody is derived from the contour of local GC content profile, high pitches for AT-rich and low pitches for GC-rich regions, and each gene is represented by one of two percussion sounds depending on the direction of the transcription.

What if the scientists represent themselves world as a piece of music instead of searching a pre-determined "mecanism"?



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Viva la vida!

Cello and piano rock...and roll!

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The One-Man Band

They’re called Nathan “Flutebox” Lee and Beardyman, thx Zee for this great sharing.

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Open Money or Dream Money?

Money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value.
A measure or a store of value means also a measure or a store of information.
People all around the world  are brainstorming about the future of money: the financial system is dead, let us organise a new system, more sustainable, fair, not speculative...endly not capitalist.
Behind these discussions, two ideas are rising up:
1- Market is conversation: the conversation is possible with internet, the value of each exchange could be the result of these conversations. The global market could become a peer to peer conversation.
2- Exchange requires trust: internet is building trust on community information. The world financial system could turn up to social community financial system.
No doubt that States and population who are not involved in the "webosphere", will be reluctant to such a drastic change.
All is about trust: are you confident in Banks, States, Big companies today?

More links:
http://lets.net
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/
http://www.letsystem.org/
http://openmoney.org
http://openmoney.editme.com
http://blogtalkradio.com/openmoney
http://openmoney.info
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/01/20/a-better-way-to-make-money/
http://www.lietaer.com/
http://wiki.thetransitioner.org/English
All the twits from several countries about this issue

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Giving is a human activity

Ophir Kutiel (born 1981), professionally known as Kutiman, is a musician, composer, producer and animator from Israel. He is best known for creating the viral phenomenon "ThruYou".

Kutiman says : "ThruYou was born out of the belief that giving is a social activity - an activity that creates and strengthens communities". He mashes pieces of  music and voices recorded on YouTube by you and me, and the result is a true, genuine composition, a master piece of creativity.

Larry Lessig, the author of "Remix," the bible of the free-culture generation, wrote: "Watch this, and you'll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book." 


* More about the implications of this phenomenon in : The Future begins Thru You
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"Open minded" people in Europe

The intensity of white and yellow shows areas of considerable recent activity in the OpenStreetMap project.
This picture, updated by Peter Miller from Ito company (http://www.itoworld.com/) reflects the citizens' commitment of each european country in the open source movement. As a consequence it reveals also how people are confident in things done from the "ground"...Hoping this "passivity", sometimes viewed as individualism, will be eradicated in the new "digital - social media" generation.

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Third-world myths

Hans Rosling (statistic guru) reveals new insights on poverty in 2007, during TED Talks.
He launched GAPMINDER.ORG website to help people to rethink world from the facts and not from the myths. Data exists, tools to visualize them exist, Internet can publish them to let more people know about them, so why are we still discussing about myths?

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Sit back and watch

Reading post "Blockage" in Cause Global Blog, I was impress by the  replies gave by Clay Shirky about the management of organizations and whole society.
To the question :
"Is there someone or some new organization doing this well?


Boing Boing, one of the well-trafficked Web blogs, has a brilliant community manager named Theresa Nielsen Hayden, whose principal MO is to sit back and watch
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answers Clay Shirky.
Absolutely disruptive of course as our traditionnal image of a true leader - manager is a busy person, pushing and pulling persons and projects.
Maybe the "sit and watch" attitude is the drastic posture  of the "new" leader but in the challenge to find efficient and flexible organization that deserves the society of information, it could be a necessary first step.

Do you agree with:
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how to change the organizational structure enough to accommodate Web-enabled, ground-up, collective action—self-organized groups of members or supporters or constituents that, because they're using new technology tools, are demanding interaction at far higher levels than before. This is something that really is unprecedented. Those organizations which fail to exert new leadership will risk losing support."
 



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135 persons rescued, good news, good job!

Clouds can also be very useful to share good news, to give hope.
This picture could be a metaphora of the situation of USA today in the world.
A big plane in a river, which is not its place, and people going out peacefully.
The contrast give me hope, as far as I know that this people are all safe.

PS: the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, veteran of US Air Force, is 67 years old.
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Street art...give a twist to simple thing.

"Think out of the box" as always and for ever : we can offer great services with  simple things, often just a tiny twist  help a lot more than a huge "Great Idea".
Enjoy this amazing "street art", and observe the passers-by joy.

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