I love electronic music. I love making it, listening to it, promoting it and of course, helping other people create it. While I didn’t write them myself, I thought I’d share some helpful PDF manuals and guides I’ve compiled to get you started.

I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system.  If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts - your very [...]

I’ve taken up a bit of a personal research project and am asking the question of this post on various networks.  What are the roles of community technology centers in building a national community service infrastructure? I hope to be able to compile and synthesize a brief report on themes that emerge.
Given the current socioeconomic [...]

The great thing about the internet is that it allows those with access* connection to people and ideas in a lot of easy, organic ways.  However, while the tools to do this are always changing and evolving I’d argue that the techniques are timeless and work online as well as offline.  Regardless of technology, you [...]

‘Intergenerationalness’ seems to be a pretty hot topic in the world of online writing/blogging. In light of my own development as a young professional, I wanted to share these websites/blogs that I refer to for knowledge geared towards developing my own capacities as as professional.  The blogs below have a focus on HELPING. [...]

This is a mix I recently completed this month. It’s the mix I want to use to start getting gigs in and around the Bay Area (and beyond?) for minimal/tech house nights.
Here’s the track list:

Loco Dice : Black Truffles in the Snow
Audio Soul Project : Community 2007 (Peace Division Remix)
Alexi Delano : What Is [...]

(picture from Danielle Martin - thanks Danielle!)
Last week, I returned from NAMAC’s 2007 conference in Austin - The Frontier is Here: Create, Engage, Act. Being a dilettante professional relatively new to the field, this conference was a great view from the frontier. From meeting other media makers and supporters from the ‘old school’ [...]

This past week, the corporation paid for me to go out to a VISTA Leadership Training in Minneapolis as part of my preparation to be a VISTA leader. I found it pretty informative with lots of useful information. I may only use about 10% of it, but that 10% will be a VERY [...]