[FRIAM] DIY, MAKE, etc.

[Tom Johnson]

All:

First, kudos to Steve Guerin, Don Bagley, Owen Densmore, Roy Worth, Shawn
Barr, Simon, et al. for pulling off the first event at what we hope will
become (this month), the Santa Fe Complex.  The Bar Camp (
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSantaFe) on Friday and Saturday attracted >35
bright and accomplishing folks discussing and demo-ing a variety of
impressive tools and thinking.  (We hope to get some pics and vids up any
day now.)

I came away with a couple strong impressions:

   - I can't recall anyone talking about how much money THEY were going
   to make with this or that "product."  Everyone seemed engaged at an
   intellectual level, not a fiscal one.
   - A couple interesting and existing initiatives were mentioned
   involving how the synergy of the Digital Revolution can be used to improve
   health care and another I had never heard of, Freerice.com  This
   morning's New York Times Magazine is devoted to philanthropy, and the issue
   points up these projects.  Drill down into this link for some encouraging
   reading:  http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html
   - Interesting do-it-yourself (DIY) topics and MAKE magazine (
   http://www.makezine.com/) appeared in different ways at different
   times.  It just so happens that National Public Radio (in the USA) carried a
   related story this morning.  See/hear
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87815753

--tj

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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
                                                  -- Buckminster Fuller
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