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Based on [[MediaWiki]], Crewscut.com was a Danish wiki for cultural producers, dedicated to presenting cultural and media projects, networks and knowhow. As of April 2010, Crewscut.com is discontinued as a wiki for cultural projects, but the wiki's database and user base is continued under a new profile in [[NotatWiki]]. | Based on [[MediaWiki]], Crewscut.com was a Danish wiki for cultural producers, dedicated to presenting cultural and media projects, networks and knowhow. As of April 2010, Crewscut.com is discontinued as a wiki for cultural projects, but the wiki's database and user base is continued under a new profile in [[NotatWiki]]. | ||
The Crewscut.com domain will be used to host the media production back catalogue of Crews Cut Production, powered by [http:// | The Crewscut.com domain will be used to host the media production back catalogue of Crews Cut Production, powered by [http://wordpress.org/ WordPress]. | ||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
''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: | ''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 | # 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 with 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 [http://lessig.org Lawrence Lessig]'s ideas of 'remixing culture' and the media philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and others. | # A mixture of [http://lessig.org Lawrence Lessig]'s ideas of 'remixing culture' and the media philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and others. | ||