Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

For more info on the build and process, check out my blog: www.volpinprops.blogspot.com

I found this amazing video in Portuguese with English subtitles from a TEDx event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Definitely worth checking out, and reading through it.

Roberta Faria, How a magazine can become a social project and help people

Heard on Facebook:

Enter our video contest to win a pair of tickets to Jack Johnson's August 24th concert in Orlando. Create a 2-3 minute promotional video of our non-profit, Simple Living Institute. We have permission to use Jacks music in the videos too!!!

More info at http://www.simplelivinginstitute.org/jackjohnson.html#video

A bit more info:

The intent of the video is to showcase Simple Living Institute and describe sustainability. The video must be between 2 and 3 minutes long, and should include live action shots of Simple Living events, volunteers, and/or board members. Please contact us for permission prior to filming at our events. View our upcoming events on our Events Calendar. The video can also include still photos. There are stock photographs in our Photo Gallery that you may use. We also have Jack's permission to use his music in the videos!

commandN is one of the premier video podcasts in the world, not to mention one of the longest-running. In a recent episode, they featured a short documentary about a Hackfest in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Held at a Coworking space in Halifax called The Hub, a group of designers, programmers and marketers gathered to create small applications for entertainment, social connections, and creativity. The apps are then sold on the iTunes store, with all benefits going to charity.

The segment, from commandN episode 214 is called "Spotlight", and it starts about 5 minutes in to the video:

If you haven't tried the excellent Miro software for subscribing to and promoting your Video and Audio podcasts, it's totally worth it.

They incorporate their own podcast directory (one of the best) and their client can download via bittorrent to save publishers' bandwidth fees. The company that makes miro is non-profit, and the software is open source. They also work with a public radio company to publish their audio podcast directory, and they support the Open Media Project. Can it get any better?

Yes. It can.

Entrepreneurs turn to coworking for business, community building

BTW, there is no hyphen in the word "Coworking". Your spell-checker is wrong.

Saw this video on my Google Alerts. Looks very well produced, with some well-known folks in the Coworking community. Tell your friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monome

Monome is a small hardware company based in the Catskills that makes controllers for electronic music performance and new media art. Their first product, the 40h, is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using a USB cable and the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally developed as an open ended performance interface for electronic music, its developers have said "The wonderful thing about this device is that it doesn't do anything really,"[1]. As a result, developers have begun to use the Monome as an interface for other types of software, from text displays to games.

The word "Monome" is also often used as a name for the various devices that Monome produces.

http://monome.org/

Welcome to Monome from sam_square on Vimeo.

What is a monome? Monomes are fun to watch, but what is actually going on?

I was cruising the MakerShed (Make Magazine's store) and I saw this really cool kit. You can make your own synthesizer with 2 full octaves of keys. Think about it.

You also need an Arduino (direct link) to use this at all, which is useful for so many other things.

If you pay attention to hardware at all, you'll have seen people building interesting tools for fun or profit with openly designed, hackable devices such as Makerbot and Arduino.

We also see lots of popular media featuring open hardware, like this episode of WebNation from the Canadian Discovery Channel, filmed at a hackerspace in Toronto.

Hey, we have a hackerspace, too!