MakerCulture Now on thetyee.ca and rabble.ca
After months of research and writing the 11-part MakerCulture series is now appearing on http://rabble.ca and http://thetyee.ca - two leading alternative news sites in Canada. You can find on thetyee here and on rabble.ca here. This series was produced by 2009 online journalism students at the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University under the supervision of Wayne MacPhail. Hope you enjoy the work.
MakerCulture
A working space for the Ryerson Online Reporting Workshop/Western Online Journalism feature series on MakerCulture
Today
Great job on the presentations gang! Thanks. - w
Final Copies - ready for Wayne to do final edit
Vital Final Check
Great work (and rework) everyone. Please check and make sure that the links on http://makerculture.pbworks.com/Final-Copies actually point to your final pages. And, make sure your links, shownotes, final feature and podcast are on that page (not buried as links). I'd like the tyee and rabble gang to see everything from you on one page. And, I don't want to mark/send off old copy.
Thanks,
Wayne
Twitter hashtag for project: #mcry
delicious tag: makerculture
This is the site we'll use to share our discoveries, ideas and story roughs for the MakerCulture story.
Elevator Pitch
A worldwide network of makers has created a "printer" capable of replicating complex parts, even all the parts to replicate itself.
They want to use it to attack globalization and reinvent manufacturing and factories as we know it.
They're part of a growing do-it-yourself (DIY) or Maker culture that is reshaping not just manufacturing, but software, art and government.
It's a crosslinked culture that blends hardware and software skills and vision with a political view that dismisses copyright, digital rights managment and ownership.
The movement is rooted in the early issues of Popular Mechanics, in the pages of the Whole Earth Catalogue, in the hacker scientist mentality of Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and in the improbable antics of Angus MacGyver. Today it finds a home in Make Magazine and the Maker Faire or at a hacker Defcon conference.
This feature series will use social media tools and online multimedia to tell the story of Maker Culture.
Links
We can collect links we find on delicious (a social bookmarking site).
We can use the tag makerculture to add links to that collection.
You can find the dynamic list of links here (http://delicious.com/tag/makerculture).
Posterous
Posterous is our journal of our progress as we develop this project. You can find our posterous blog here: http://makingmakers.posterous.com/
You should have received an invite to post to the blog. Please let me know if you have any difficulties.
The email address for the blog is post@makingmakers.posterous.com
Other Links
Course Outline for Ryerson Course
Equipment Loans for Ryerson
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