Just to emphasize why he gets paid to speak at conferences and I don’t, Clay Shirky decided to piece together all the things that make participatory culture great, and put them into one short presentation:
There’s a new service called Muxtape that lets you upload up to 12 mp3 files to create the 21st century version of a mixtape. And unless you’re really into the idea of holding a microphone up to the radio, it’ll generally have better audio quality.
I created my very own: my depressing music. Listen along to the torture I put myself through on a daily basis. Yes, it’s all one band, and yes the audio volume hasn’t been normalized (take it up with whoever puts out the CDs). But I know somebody who would have liked it, and listening to all of this reminds me of her.