Some thoughtful reading from this morning – time spent trying to wash from my mouth the bitter taste of ABC’s two-hour homage to Milton by way of Coppola-in-the-jungle ((I am referring, of course, to last evening’s LOST season premiere))…all to Aloe Blacc’s terrific Shine Through:

A few days back, I tripped across a brilliant idea called Thounds, best-described via the video below:

For those of you without the requisite patience for video viewing, Thounds is a social platform for the recording and sharing of musical snippets, which can be added-to collaboratively by other users within the network.
This is not a terrifically [...]

A handful of related thoughts, leading to a larger one:
Last week, my new favorite television show, Hung, ended its initial season run on HBO. On a lark, I posted to Facebook and Twitter for recommendations for a new series into which to sink my teeth. 24 hours and a few hundred suggestions later, a handful [...]

To celebrate the institutions’ 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum is crowdsourcing its’ celebratory exhibition, asking users to nominate pieces from their substantial collection for display – 150 of which will ultimately be included.

It’s a wonderful idea, as befits a museum of this regard (it really is a priceless space – one often overlooked even by local residents), and not dissimilar to an idea espoused here with respect to the archives of the American Museum of Natural History.

Read more about MIT’s program here, or go straight to nominating. Better still, plan a visit to the museum itself and see Connections, a new series of works by the Sociable Media Group.

via Everything is Miscellaneous.