The nice folks at Seed named me a revolutionary mind this month. It's an honor to be in the company of the minds behind GISAID, Eigenfactor, Voice of Young Science, and CubeSat. Click through and check all of them out.
It's surreal to be photographed by a real photographer and followed around by a film crew. When I think of all the shots and film unused, I think about how nice it would be to see media companies releasing the backfile under CC licenses so that others could start to do remix on the unused content.
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Not a bad idea, John. I think this will probably start to happen more and more as rapid uploading tools are introcuded to common networking sites.