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• Exclusive Mix: DJ/rupture & Matt Shadetek (Knowledge)
  "We'd been talking a lot about an imaginary world of New York, 30 years in the future, underwater," explains Shadetek. "We have characters that first appeared on [2008's] Uproot, so we developed a story where these guys live on top of buildings, there are octopus all around, there's water, and they make music on little solar-powered cellphones. It's a kind of optimistic apocalypse; strategies for surviving and making music after it."
• Everyman Offers New Directions in Online Maps (NYT)
  "An army of volunteer cartographers are logging every detail of neighborhoods near and far into online atlases. From Petaluma to Peshawar, these amateurs are arming themselves with GPS devices and easy-to-use software to create digital maps where none were available before, or fixing mistakes and adding information to existing ones. Like contributors to Wikipedia before them, they are democratizing a field that used to be the exclusive domain of professionals and specialists. And the information they gather is becoming increasingly valuable commercially."
• Cormac McCarthy on The Road (WSJ)
  "WSJ: But is there something compelling about the collaborative process compared to the solitary job of writing? CM: Yes, it would compel you to avoid it at all costs."
• Nine Top Digital Trends for 2010 (Brand Republic)
  "Much has been said about the power and potential of collective intelligence. From solving complex problems through crowd-sourcing, to reconfiguring industries to be leaner and more innovative by harnessing the expertise of a network of independent suppliers, many of the breakthrough solutions of tomorrow appear to lie in more effectively pooling the resources and intelligence of our increasingly networked world. On the other side of the equation, the power of pooled intelligence and networked resources have empowered individuals to take on more and more complex undertakings themselves. From drawing on the collective intelligence of blogs and university open courseware to educate themselves, to services like ponoko, spoonflower and cafe press that facilitate small-scale production, to offline resource pooling like pop-up retail and collective office spaces, individuals are discovering that it has never been easier to try doing it themselves."
• Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research (TechCrunch)
  "London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm of research”, has announced that it’s reached something of a milestone today – claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded to the site in less than a year since its launch. Furthermore, the online database is doubling in size every 10 weeks, says the company."