Crowdfire

Crowdfire is sort of like an event-centric Flickr or videosharing site, but on a very large scale -- some 60K+ people attended the concert each day, and as Battelle said, probably 59,000 of them were carrying cameraphones.

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Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson checks out Crowdfire, a sort of real-life social media experiment at the Outside Lands Music fest.

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* Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music) * Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music) * BB Gadgets 'Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed

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And there's tons of fan-made footage and photos of Primus on Crowdfire. net (they're a BBtv sponsor).

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You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire -- here's the search link for fan-uploads related to Broken Social Scene.

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* Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music) * BB Gadgets 'Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed

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* Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music) * Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music) * BB Gadgets 'Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed

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Crowdfire (with Windows) is Boing Boing tv's sponsor this month, and the project was the brainchild of BB partner and FM founder/CEO John Battelle and Rick Farman, the festival developer who created Outside Lands.

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Note: this episode, and other BBtv music features this month, are sponsored by the Crowdfire live music social media project.

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You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire --

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