Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful concert at Carnegie Hall: the YouTube Symphony. The YouTube Symphony is an orchestra that was assembled through auditions conducted via – you guessed it – YouTube. As such, the process was open to musicians from around the world which is entirely different from how orchestras (even youth orchestras) are traditionally assembled. The idea fits with a concept that we discussed at our hacking education conference: the Internet provides...

Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful concert at Carnegie Hall: the YouTube Symphony. The YouTube Symphony is an orchestra that was assembled through auditions conducted via – you guessed it – YouTube. As such, the process was open to musicians from around the world which is entirely different from how orchestras (even youth orchestras) are traditionally assembled. The idea fits with a concept that we discussed at our hacking education conference: the Internet provides...