The power of the "remix" in an open community

The power of the remix is all about making something new, fresh and possibly better.

The fact that what I did connected with someone else to inspire them to make something else out of it, that is satisfying in a way that nothing else is…. Once you let go of notion that ‘this is mine’ and others build on top of what you did, you can work together a lot better [and inexpensively]… Walt Disney didn’t create fairy tale characters like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella…  

— Actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaking about his  open-production collaboration community, hitRECord.

Via ZDNet

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nasdaq: After watching our favorite TV episodes, many of us take to Twitter to talk about them.  Now, thanks to a recent deal between Nielsen and Twitter, that Twitter chatter will become its own ratings system.  Called the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating,” the hope is to measure the conversation that a TV show spurs on Twitter and make that rating available in the fall of 2013.  More from TechCrunch here!

nasdaq:

After watching our favorite TV episodes, many of us take to Twitter to talk about them.  Now, thanks to a recent deal between Nielsen and Twitter, that Twitter chatter will become its own ratings system.  Called the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating,” the hope is to measure the conversation that a TV show spurs on Twitter and make that rating available in the fall of 2013.  More from TechCrunch here!

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