http://ourmedia.org/user/17177 Recently published media items from Ourmedia.org en http://ourmedia.org/node/50078 Lisa Williams (here?s her blog: H2Otown) sent us this show idea: ?Knitting has made a huge resurgence among urban hipsters, who have meetups in towns and cities nationwide, often in bars, to hang out and knit. There?s even one in a gay bar in South Boston? Overall, they?re ?taking back the knit? from frumpiness, making and distributing patterns for sweaters with skulls and crossbones and iPod cozies.? There are also the oldtimers who never knew that knitting had fallen out of fashion?for these guys knitting is beyond fashion?it?s a way of life. Thanks to Lisa, we?ve plunged into the world of knitting and we?ll be exploring it on the airwaves in our next installment in the Passion Thursday series.Some credit the knitting revival to the internet. Ordering supplies online, knitting chatrooms and blogs are all fueling the craze. Knitting blogger Joe Wilcox, Queer Joe?s Knitting Blog will be joinging us from Albany, NYStich ?n? bitch guru Debbie Stoller will be joinging us from Gotham City. She?s a relative newcomer to knitting, she started in 1999, and she?s been wrtingKnit-Lit ever since.And last but not least??joining us in the studio are the husband and wife knitting duo Kevin Lundeen and Elise Goldschlag. They own and operate Flying Fingers . It?s a small shop in Irvington, NY, which is thriving because they are importing not only the finest alpaca but the best clientele. Flying fingers designed the Yarn Bus, which shuttles customers to and from Manhattan, which happens to be 39, 411 yards of yarn away. Also check out our web feature on Craftivismhttp://www.radioopensource.org/craftivism/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:35:13 -0700 Open Source on PRI http://ourmedia.org/node/49636 Open Source is a daily, live radio show and blog, but we've fallen in love with flickr.com. We decided to find out the story behind the picture.Let us know if you want to hear the story behind a photo. Tag flickr photos "radioopensource" if you're curious. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:35:01 -0700 Open Source Media w/Kristina Fetkovich, flickr-user http://ourmedia.org/node/36717 “Non,” “Nee” and now the UK isn’t even going to ask. The European Constitution itself is a massive document of more than 250 pages and 448 – or is it 465? – articles, drafted via a year-long, open access process. But somewhere the process – and the PR – failed. The U.S. constitution has only seven articles, and its writers knew it had to be simple and readable if it was going to pass. Listen here to find out what makes a constitution.Join host Christopher Lydon in his conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele, Akhil Reed Amar, and Richard Corbett. Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:22:00 -0700 Open Source on PRI http://ourmedia.org/node/36701 [aired on 6/2/05]Our host Christopher Lydon has a conversation aboiut Kenya with guest Jeffrey Sachs, director, the Earth Institute at Columbia University special advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.Sachs has got the whole developing world in his ken, but we’re going to start small… assuming that a country with over 31 million people composed of over 70 different tribal groups can be considered small. We’re going to be talking about the macro and the micro: about international investment and hyper-local organizing, the ravages of malaria and the nitty gritty of homegrown mosquito repellent. In short, we want to talk about what’s working in Kenya and what’s not. Sachs will provide the invaluable perspective of someone who travels to all of the developing world hotspots — including the Kenyan village Sauri, where he just spent a few days — and someone who has the ears of both Kofi Annan and Bono. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:13:43 -0700 Open Source on PRI http://ourmedia.org/node/36691 [aired 5/30/05]The Internet just got cool again. Forget the crash. What was a collection of static pages and commerce sites has become a living, breathing conversation. A handful of innovations — tagging, syndication and yes, of course, blogging — have only now become user-friendly. They’re changing the way we communicate. And finally, the doomsday predictions about the old models — of journalism, of marketing, of research — are no longer exaggerated.They’re calling it Web 2.0, and it will probably change your life. A few people saw it coming all along. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, they wrote.With guests David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Dina Mehta, and Dave Winer. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:52:02 -0700 Open Source on PRI http://ourmedia.org/node/380120 “Non,” “Nee” and now the UK isn’t even going to ask. The European Constitution itself is a massive document of more than 250 pages and 448 – or is it 465? – articles, drafted via a year-long, open access process. But somewhere the process – and the PR – failed. The U.S. constitution has only seven articles, and its writers knew it had to be simple and readable if it was going to pass. We want to know what’s in a constitution: whether the key is in the writing or the ratifying or the PR or all of it. Was the American experience an anomaly – or an example? Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:15:26 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/380121 Amitav Ghosh is a novelist, a journalist, a star among postcolonial writers. He’s a child of post-Independence India who sees all too clearly the dangers of empire — both in the past, in its indelible effect on present-day India; and in the present, in the Bush Administration’s war in Iraq. US news coverage of India seems to focus on outsourcing and economic globalization; Ghosh is headed back to India, and he’ll show us the full postcolonial Indian reality — the political, religious, social, and environmental changes in this country of 1 billion souls. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:17:00 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/380117 Sachs has got the whole developing world in his ken, but we're going to start small... assuming that a country with over 31 million people composed of over 70 different tribal groups can be considered small. We're going to be talking about the macro and the micro: about international investment and hyper-local organizing, the ravages of malaria and the nitty gritty of homegrown mosquito repellent. In short, we want to talk about what's working in Kenya and what's not. Sachs will provide the invaluable perspective of someone who travels to all of the developing world hotspots -- including the Kenyan village Sauri, where he just spent a few days -- and someone who has the ears of both Kofi Annan and Bono. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:12:07 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/380119 The internet is aflame. Orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Christians, wiccans and pagans, everyone is talking about God. So how has our notion of God changed since people started searching for Him online? And how has the Internet changed since He moved there? Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:13:50 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/380116 Is the internet taking the mystery out of medicine? Although access to healthcare hasn't improved, access to medical information has. As a result, patients are now spending more time at PubMed than the neighborhood saloon. The effect is sobering to physicians who had enjoyed a centuries old monopoly on medspeak. Docs may have been knocked from their pedestals but they aren’t down for the count. They too are basking in the benefits of cyberspace. The inspired diagnosis is only a Blackberry away. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:10:30 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/380115 The Internet just got cool again. Forget the crash. What was a collection of static pages and commerce sites has become a living, breathing conversation. A handful of innovations — tagging, syndication and yes, of course, blogging — have only now become user-friendly. They’re changing the way we communicate. And finally, the doomsday predictions about the old models — of journalism, of marketing, of research — are no longer exaggerated.They’re calling it Web 2.0, and it will probably change your life. A few people saw it coming all along. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, they wrote. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:08:54 -0800 Open Source Media http://ourmedia.org/node/18328 To launch a new public radio show, an hour-long discussion of developments in journalism, focusing on hyperlocal experiments like greensboro101 and h20town.com. With Jay Rosen, Lex Alexander, Roch Smith, Lisa Williams, Doug Kaye and Ben Walker. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:35:24 -0700 PRI's "Open Source" With Chris Lydon