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== Background == | == Background == | ||
''Crewscut.com'' was started in December 2004 by two media students in Odense, Denmark, [[Morten Blaabjerg]] and [ | ''Crewscut.com'' was started in December 2004 by two media students in Odense, Denmark, [[Morten Blaabjerg]] and [http://falgaard.dk/ Søren Falgaard]. The site was inspired by mainly three things: | ||
# The need to organize and present creative projects online (mainly film/tv projects) - to create an online home for the widely divergent ideas and projects of the organizers, which didn't seem to fit in any traditional, hierarchical form | # The need to organize and present creative projects online (mainly film/tv projects) - to create an online home for the widely divergent ideas and projects of the organizers, which didn't seem to fit in any traditional, hierarchical form | ||
# The amazing concept of [[Wikipedia]], and the discovery that [[MediaWiki]] could be used as an open source platform to build such a site | # The amazing concept of [[Wikipedia]], and the discovery that [[MediaWiki]] could be used as an open source platform to build such a site | ||
# A mixture of [ | # A mixture of [http://lessig.org Lawrence Lessig]'s ideas of 'remixing culture' and the media philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and others. | ||
The wiki began to grow, with the realization that Mediawiki was powerful enough to contain information on not only the organizers' own projects, but could envelop information on the converging media landscape as a whole, and invite other users and projects to participate. | The wiki began to grow, with the realization that Mediawiki was powerful enough to contain information on not only the organizers' own projects, but could envelop information on the converging media landscape as a whole, and invite other users and projects to participate. | ||