{"id":1671,"date":"2006-02-15T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/02\/15\/takeaway-festival-of-do-it-your-self-media\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:44","slug":"takeaway-festival-of-do-it-your-self-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/takeaway-festival-of-do-it-your-self-media\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKEAWAY: Festival of do it your self Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/100057424\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/31\/100057424_8ce708b24e_m.jpg\" width=\"137\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" height=\"240\" alt=\"TAKEAWAY: Festival of do it your self Media\" \/><\/a> Finally a geek workshop for non geeks. Would love to go but i&#8217;m afraid with SXSW in the same month this could be a little problematic. Not directly related, i have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1568985525\/designobserver-20\/002-7210275-4697655\">this book<\/a> in Berlin and it looked quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p><i>A silent revolution is taking place. More and more people are transforming themselves from media consumers to producers &#8211; using the new tools, software and technologies now at their disposal.<\/p>\n<p>From the expanding realm of free and open source software (FLOSS), to peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution and &#8216;pervasive&#8217; mobile and locative technologies, the possibilities exist as never before to create and disseminate our opinions and experiences through our own media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takeawayfestival.com\/\">TAKEAWAY, the Festival of do it your self Media<\/a>, will help you to understand what it&#8217;s all about and how to take part in the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Learn &#8211; how to make your own mark in new media: create a blog, videolog or podcast; install and use free operating systems; learn about free software; explore ideas for distributing and marketing your work &#8211; and how to get paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>Talk &#8211; to those who are making the tools and those who are finding new and innovative ways to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Listen &#8211; to lectures and panel discussions which will introduce concepts of Free Software, Open Source and the Peer-to-Peer approach in interactive design, learning and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss &#8211; the implications of &#8216;free&#8217; and P2P culture, changes in the way we create culture and art, and how we will be able to live, and learn, in the new media environment.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>29-31 March 2006: @ DANA Centre, Science Museum, 165 Queen&#8217;s Gate, South Kensington, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a geek workshop for non geeks. Would love to go but i&#8217;m afraid with SXSW in the same month this could be a little problematic. Not directly related, i have seen this book in Berlin and it looked quite interesting. A silent revolution is taking place. More and more people are transforming themselves from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/takeaway-festival-of-do-it-your-self-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAKEAWAY: Festival of do it your self Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}