Feb
24
2010
Podcamp Toronto 2010: Maker Culture with Wayne MacPhail
Author: Robin Browne
A 3D printer? WTF?
That’s right. A printer that can print things – not just pictures of things. That was just one of the cool things Wayne MacPhail spoke of in his Podcamp Toronto 2010 talk The Making of Maker Culture. Wayne, of W8NC and rabble.ca, never ceases to explore new frontiers – and come back and share what he’s learned – and this was no exception. Wayne, together with University of Western Ontario student Curtis File, presented a case study on “how Ryerson, Western, thetyee.ca and rabble.ca came together to create the MakerCulture Project. MakerCulture is an 11-part series produced by 45 students at the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University. It used a wiki, Twitter, social bookmarking, posterous, Facebook, livestream and Skype for its creation and promotion. In the process, it turned the traditional journalism process on its head.”
Enjoy!
ps. Apologies for the abrupt start to the recording. I was volunteering at Podcamp and arrived a little late to most of the presentations I attended after making sure everything was all right with the video cameras live streaming and recording each presentation.
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