I’m busting with pride because, for the last year, I’ve been volunteering co-leading the Media team of this weekend’s Femme Conference. Between starting work on this conference and now, I started graduate school and went to two Allied Media Conferences, and it’s just really clear to me how incredibly important media –Â accessible, horizontal, participatory… Continue reading Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web
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Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!
Why are there a billion free PC programs out there but only ten thousand free Mac programs? Because a PC operating system is open source and Mac is proprietary. What the hell does that mean? Friends that’s a long conversation down intellectual property and capitalism lane, so let’s go there a little bit, and lets… Continue reading Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!
Buying A Video Camera
Buying a video camera might seem like a simple task, perhaps because you haven’t attempted to do it recently, or maybe you live in a world where video cameras are an oft-discussed item. For the rest of us — hearty DIY people who would like to purchase a video camera who are not independently wealthy… Continue reading Buying A Video Camera
Google games: beemp3 makes my songs into… ringtones?
ONE So every once in a while I’ll google my name[s] to see what comes up. And this time around I learned that you can get two songs from Ice 9 and two tracks from Exquisite Witness on the illustriously sketchy beemp3.com. This is surely payment for all the [legal, ahem] files I have gotten… Continue reading Google games: beemp3 makes my songs into… ringtones?
Recording For Free: Sound on a Mac & PC [how-to]
I love recording audio, making music, archiving stories and beautiful moments, and I am not endowed with money — and have definitely been seriously broke and still wanted to make audio art. What’s a techhead to do? Read on for audio recording recommendations for voices and music on mac and even pc! Programs Audio on… Continue reading Recording For Free: Sound on a Mac & PC [how-to]
Webpages I: Getting A Name
So you want a webpage, or maybe you want to be like me and have six plus some blogs [see blogroll]. Either way, you have to start with your web name! This covers basics like getting a domain name [your URL], what the heck you do to make it work … and what you do… Continue reading Webpages I: Getting A Name
How To's Are Hot: File Sharing
I really love knowing “how-to” any and everything — both digi/technological and real-time. Lately I find myself to be the Lady of Reference among my friends — and because I believe in skill-sharing and DIY/C [that last “/C’ is for “collectively“] I love to let people know how to do what I know…so, in the… Continue reading How To's Are Hot: File Sharing