Hyperbio

• I do this because I love to do it. or great local communities engaged with creative commons projects (openStreetMap.org).
• 13 Free web apps to simplify designer’s work life – including TinEye!
• BackType lands seed funding. Go BackType. Awesome to see a Ycombinator Canadian success story unfolding.
• My free software hero Benjamin Mako Hill
• A Slate take on Twitter: What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
• There are 193,000 working photographers in the US.
• Leila’s music listening strategy. ipod? what ipod?
• I like Blaise’s free culture thinking – and essay!
• Via Benjamin Mako Hill: I believe that access to information is ethical issue. This is where I invoke Eben Moglen because he says it a lot better than I can. Moglen says:  The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone — if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything?

• What’s in your orange juice? Perhaps not the childhood oranges that you were once so fond of! What isn’t straightforward about orange juice? HAMILTON: It’s a heavily processed product. It’s heavily engineered as well. In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, so it doesn’t oxidize. Then it’s put in huge storage tanks where it can be kept for upwards of a year. It gets stripped of flavor-providing chemicals, which are volatile. When it’s ready for packaging, companies such as Tropicana hire flavor companies such as Firmenich to engineer flavor packs to make it taste fresh. People think not-from-concentrate is a fresher product, but it also sits in storage for quite a long time…

• Via Seth’s blog: The two elements of a great presenter: 1. Respect (from the audience) 2. Love (to the audience)

Photograph By Greg Ma.