links for 2007-04-23

• Irshad Manji: Faith without fear
  Irshad Manji, author of "The trouble with Islam today" and a speaker at TEDGLOBAL 05 in Oxford, travelled through the Arabian Peninsula and Europe making a documentary about reconciling Islam and freedom. PBS just premiered it. Videoclips on the site.
  (tags: irshadmanji TEDGLOBAL islam freedom)
• Al Jazeera English has own channel on YouTube
  The English-language operations of Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera have opened their own channel on videosharing platform YouTube, where they post some of their shows. A way to overcome the fact that US cable operators aren't keen on carrying AJ.
  (tags: aljazeera television youtube)
• GENI: Global environment for network innovations
  A group of scientists around Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf and with the support of the US' National Science Foundation want to create a new "global communications network and related services that will be qualitatively better than today's Internet".
  (tags: internet network research geni)
• Zurich: a petition to reduce outdoors advertising
  An association in Zurich is gathering signatures to cut in half the number of spaces allocated to billboards in the city. Turns out that Switzerland has more billboards per capita than any other European country.
  (tags: advertising Zurich)
• Stickiness and the viral nature
  Interesting thoughts by Erik Sundelof on viral marketing and stickiness. "Viral branding is about letting you users build your brand. If you are uncareful ... they might build a brand you didn’t intend".
  (tags: viral marketing)
• Lessons from a Stradivari in the metro station
  If a great musician plays great music in a metro station, will people recognize greatness? In Washington star violinist Josh Bell played his Stradivari for 43 min; 1100 people walked by, 27 gave a tot of 32$, almost none stopped to listen. (Thanks Isaiah)
  (tags: stunt music dailylife experiment)