Sarah Davies

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative art project made of YouTube videos. The videos all feature someone doing something (playing an instrument, humming, talking) in the key of B flat. You can play them in order or together, starting any particular video at any time. They are all slow and somewhat ambient, so the resulting music always seems to work nicely regardless of the timing.

I’d love to see a bot that found these videos and categorized them in real time so I could have “the sound of YouTube” in any key on while I work.

This is a video of a panel run by NPower Seattle‘s Peg Giffels for the Kellog Action Lab. It features Zan McColloch-Lussier from the Pride Foundation, Jessica Ross from Treehouse, and me. We mostly cover Twitter and Facebook, but we frequently diverge into other web territories. Please feel free to spread the video around. I won’t sue you.

Some of the resources mentioned on the panel:

Ways to post to multiple sites at once: Ping.fm and Hellotxt.com
Short explanatory videos about technology and social media: Common Craft
Demographic information about social networks: danah boyd
Alternative copyright licensing options: Creative Commons