From the category archives:
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story
Posted this earlier, but really dug this story. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Amazing what William used to build his windmill – let alone the circumstances (and innovations!) that happened around his project.
Howdy We Operate Best Together Backers and Fans!
Apologies if some of this is old news to some of you, but I thought I’d condense the past months’ adventures for y’all in this email. Also, I’d asked some of you if I could add you to my eNewsletter list to stay up to date on my [...]
On my last day in New York City, after squatting a loft with my good friend Travis, I had another chance to meet up with Keiko (from the previous Sunday’s SHARE event) and stop by the Digital Democracy offices to see where all of their action happens. It was like a meeting of [...]
…so many different styles of music you know?
Recently, I got this SWEEET track – a remix of another track called ‘Community 2007′ from Audio Soul Project. A duo I really like called Peace Division did the remix and a fellow named Ron Carroll penned the lyrics.
I think the lyrics really say it all.
Community 2007
lyrics by [...]
Hi internet! In the next 10 3 days, I am trying to raise $1500 (now just $1360 $819 thanks to Ellen, Aleem, Jan, Belinda, Anne, Ben, Tom, Paul, Laura, Mark, Darryl, Liz, Jo’el, Ryan, Mary, Elvia, Taylor, Emily and Kristin to fund an independent travel project through Europe.
It’s called We Operate Best Together. And it’s [...]
UPDATE: Digital Democracy Won a $5000 FACT Social Justice Award!
This past week, I got invited to be a Project Champion for NetSquared’s N2Y4 Mobile Development Challenge. With some nice great encouragement from Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward and Justin Massa, I decided to become the Champion for Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights.
From the project [...]
When I served as an AmeriCorps CTC VISTA Leader, I mailed a package to all of my VISTAs introducing myself and giving them an exercise* I found invaluable during my own Year of Service. I called it a ‘Purpose Keeping’ exercise – basically, it’s a mission statement generator that uses this formula: i.e.
[your unique [...]
Danielle Martin
After serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member for over two years, I wonder: have any other government departments or agencies considered a “trade community service for education or debt relief” model for accomplishing the tasks it’s set up to do? Why or why not? If so, are there other models that exist? Where? How?
Also, [...]
Autechre – Gantz Graf
I’ve always thought these two pieces should be in conversation. The piece of the left is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 . I’ve always loved the piece. It has influenced me in so much of the music that I make. The visual ’stuttering’ of the painting [...]
The following is a brief list of things I’m learning about the connection between your passion and your purpose. Hopefully it grows as I continue on my path.
A purpose is most powerful when connected with your passions.
It is from your purpose that all other actions flow.
Sharing your purpose with others is generally [...]
I’m thinking of writing a personal manifesto. These are the first inklings:
Maximize potential for happiness at any given moment.
Make more choices without overthinking the consequences too much.
Give time to recover/learn from said choices if outcome results in general feelings of guilt, nausea, despair or inadequacy.
Rejoice in said choices if result is empowering, healing, [...]
Is it meaningful for people to organize by keywords? I was recently invited to join:
http://www.myspace.com/indonesianet
I didn’t feel like I had very much in common with the folks who’s profiles I perused and was most likely found by doing a keyword search. I feel part Indonesian biologically, but not culturally. Indonesia is part of my biological [...]
DIY New Media Sessions #4change Manifesto
