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 ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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