Please help show your support for our good friend, Jabari Johnson, as he prepares to launch the second season of his show, Jabari Presents. His show features interviews with influential artists, athletes and entertainers. Wiz Khalifa and Diggy Simmons are just a couple examples of people interviewed in season one.

The show has grown and maintained a faithful audience, however, major networks still don’t share Jabari’s vision. He’s decided to launch the second season of Jabari Presents on the internet and continue the project on his own. If you believe in chasing what you love and creating a career for yourself, check out his video above. The project has 22 days left to go and ends on June 30th. Click here for his Kickstarter page and more information about the project.

When designer, Jake Caputo, quietly launched TakeMyMoneyHBO last night, no one would have guessed what was to follow.

The premise to his site was simple: answer how much would you pay for a HBOGO streaming service per month and then tweet it out to your friends. Beyond that, it unintentionally revealed that most of us are willing to pay a fair price for HBOGO, rather than stick to a traditional expensive cable package.

I decided $15 would be a fair enough price but quickly wondered what others would pay. Dominic Balsuryia beat me to it by leveraging Twitter’s API to see what the average cost was for every 1,500 tweets (it was $12).

It’s not likely that HBO will soon offer a stand alone service, but Caputo’s site achieved something greater - it started a conversation. In about a day, his site has racked up 100k+ visits, countless tweets, and hundreds of stories on blogs all over the web. It’s really inspiring to know that a single individual can shake up years of age old business practices with a few spare minutes and a great idea.

This morning a few of us went to Creative Mornings at the Galapagos art space in DUMBO to listen to Internet anthropologist, JonathanHarris. Upon entering we were given icebreaker tags that asked for our name, Twitter handle, and our definition of magic - perhaps because we were about to witness magic right in front of us.

Jonathan Harris has made several impacting projects that give new light to how we communicate with technology and how technology communicates with us. His most recent project, Cowbird, is an online collection of stories about human experiences in the form of writing, sound, and imagery by anyone and everyone. Although Cowbird has grown in popularity, Harris said, “we are going to keep Cowbird as a small labor of love, not a big business. No ads, no selling data.”

During his talk, Harris covered four trends in online culture:

·      Compression of communication: This means everything from phone calls to e-mails, to chats and tweets - with each new method our communication becomes faster.

·      Disposability of information: We, as individuals, put out information into the world with such ease that it becomes lost in waves of new fresh information.

·      Curation: How people are evolving the way they are collecting and sharing things that they find interesting.

·      Self-promotion: The tendency that we have to self-advertise ourselves is unhealthy in our culture, because we are consistently comparing ourselves with others, which can lead to insecurity.

Lastly big thanks to MailChimp and Freshbooks for breakfast! We’ll post a Vimeo link to the talk as soon as it becomes available.