Category: do-it-yourself

  • How Open Source Tools are Challenging the Status Quo (with a List of Resources)

    How Open Source Tools are Challenging the Status Quo (with a List of Resources)

    The growth of DIY and independent culture is enabling new generation of artists to reach a wider audience. However, the rise of AI-generated content and the potential collapse of social media platforms pose challenges for indie artists. To support and nurture this trend, it is important to provide independent creators with the tools and platforms…

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  • Come To Life: One from the heart, about the new record

    We started this album three years ago. An effort to continue to the work we did with BDP almost a decade ago. Lest you don’t know me, I am not some balding wannabe ex-rocker seeking former glory days. I am a kid who didn’t feel like I had yet reached the root. So I decided…

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  • Web 3.0 Train Now Boarding, Don’t Be Late

    Just in case you are still wondering whether you should check out this whole “Social Networking Thing” – too late. It’s way tired. The tides are tiring of Facebook. MySpace has been declared dead. We are now halfway through the Web 2.5 paradigm; there are already so many books at Amazon.com about how to conduct…

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  • The Guild is the Next Generation’s Answer to Mary Tyler Moore

    Felicia Day’s eight-minute webisodic-turned-cultural-phenomenon The Guild revolves around the character Codex, a single woman in her late-twenties, early thirties who is not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her, but who holds a position of great importance in her online guild – that of the Healer. The show can similarly assert itself…

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  • The Salvation and the Grave Danger of Compact Flourescent Bulbs

    Companies once sold nuclear fallout shelters, green-colored Palmolive and even duct tape to protect us from the scourges of humanity and nature (usually humanity). Now the compact florescent bulb is taking center stage as the solution to “oil” and global warming.

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  • The Celebration of Light and 2008 in Review

    I can see the little beacons of humanity set out on those front lawns, reminding us that someone is still home. They are displaying those strings of little hopes that say, its alright, the world may be at its darkest, but we have been here a long time, as substantiated by our traditions, and we…

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