DAZED RULES

From the http://www.theimagist.com/node/2308
All the young fashion photographers I know are bidding to be in Dazed and Confused, a turn of event I find to be fascinating. Over the past two years a powerful creative team has gelled at the magazine ring-led by the formidable Nichola Formichetti. I love a current project the magazine is currently spinning, to have its readers (well the ones who are under 18 and living in the UK) create their own Dazed cover using images shot by Hedi Slimane.

As dazeddigital.com explains:

So, how will it work? All of the fashion for this issue was shot over three days by designer Hedi Slimane, on a portfolio of British youth street-cast from various locations around London. We’re now giving you a downloadable Dazed cover template and three of Hedi’s images. If you want to use one (or all) of them, go for it – they’re yours to do with as you like. And if you want to use a completely different image of your own, that’s fine, too – it’s up to you. We just want you to make an exciting, attractive and revealing Dazed cover that says something about what it’s like to be young and British today. If you're from a different country, you're welcome to take part and just make a cover about what it's like to be young today in your country

You should be under 18 to take part. If you’re actually a 37-year-old graphic designer and live with your mum, well, we can’t stop you entering but it would be a bit weird, wouldn’t it? We’ll print our favourites in the January issue and show some of the best here on Dazed Digital as they come in, and we’ll also be blagging some nice prizes to give out randomly over the coming weeks as well. Please send all entries (JPEG format, ideally) to stephen.ll@dazedgroup.com by Thursday November 20th and be sure to include your name, age and where you live. Happy designing
http://www.dazeddigital.com/ArtsAndCulture/article/1384/1/Dazed_Cover_Versions

quarterlife

A show about a group of twentysomethings coming of age in the digital generation. And a social network about what it means to be creative, to pursue a passion, to make a difference in the world -- or just to find a place in it.

From Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind "My So-Called Life," quarterlife is the first Internet series that is as high quality as any film or television show - it's smart, funny, emotional...real.


quarterlife.com is a social network for actors, photographers, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and designers. quarterlife.com connects you with like-minded people, and offers resources for information about schools, grants, and internships. It's a place to explore the issues in your life, where changing the world is as real as the friends you meet.

Beatport 4.0

Beatport is a phenomenon of modern dance music. For better or worse, it has been a pioneer and leader in dance music culture's changing dynamic in embracing true digitalism.

"Independent music is the soul of the music industry. These artists and labels are the true believers in the sound and deserve all the credit. Beatport is just a platform to deliver their music to the masses."
Jonas Tempel, founder and CEO

"Beatport 4.0 will launch early 2009. Official release date coming soon."
more at http://www.ibiza-voice.com/story/news/1613


Beatport 4.0 : We want to hear your ideas.
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/beatport-40/

"We are at the beginning stages of planning for the next version of Beatport.com. As you can imagine, we have tons of great ideas. Things that we’ve been planning for quite some time, and things that are brand new ideas. But we’d really like to hear from you, the user community. What are your ideas?

The task of updating and developing Beatport from initial ideas to public launch is quite a long process. Honestly, they are some of the most intense times around the office. It’s hard to limit the amount of crazy ideas we are capable of creating — there are so many things that can be done on the internet these days. It’s hard to narrow it down to a list of things that will truly add value to each user’s shopping experience.

New technologies, new design techniques, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 — it all comes into play. To help, we’ve assembled a talented team of interface designers, DJs, producers and developers to help make sure the next version of Beatport is amazing. The process is just too big, there is no way we can think of every opportunity to improve the site, which is why we’re reaching out to get our community of loyal users involved from day one.

We are looking for input to help our team map out the future and come up with the next features that will become Beatport 4.0. These features can be track-related, search engine improvements, navigation ideas, new widgets, new desktop applications, etc. Internally, we’ve come up with great ideas on how to make MyBeatport better and help users find the music they love faster. There are even some good ideas on how to make the pre-listening player better. From top to bottom, there are dozens of potential improvements that can be made to the shopping experience.

But that is enough about our ideas. If you have a minute, please give us a few of your ideas and requests. We are all looking forward to hearing your thoughts and contributions towards the future of Beatport"

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing has, virtually overnight, generated huge buzz, enthusiasm, and fear. It's the application of the open-source idea to any field outside of software, taking a function performed by people in an organization, such as reporting done by journalists, research and product development by scientists, or design of a T-shirt, for example, and, in effect, "outsourcing" it through an open-air broadcast on the Internet. Crowdsourcing has already had a huge impact on big companies like Procter & Gamble, as well as start-ups like Threadless.com, which rapidly became the third largest T-shirt maker in the United States. The fuel sparking the crowdsourcing flame is the potent combination of more highly educated people working in fields other than those in which they were trained (think of the art historian peddling financial advice at Merrill Lynch) with the greatest mechanism for distributing knowledge and information the world has ever seen: the Internet.