Willow Bl00 & Diggz

Willow Bl00 gave me the skinny on a fascinating 2-part piece on written by Kevin Lovelace on Grinding.be called Brands, Prosthetic Identities and The Batman.  She pointed out the second part, Open Source Superheroes, Idoru and the Batman which talks about Makerspaces and Geeks Without Bounds, two things I care very much about.  Here’s an excerpt:

“In a world where prosthetic identities are commonplace, we can all be rockstars – and superheroes are rockstars that help people.  Being something bigger than ourselves isn’t a superhuman feat in a world where Twitter lets you crowdsource solutions in seconds behind an @-handle that may be more recognizable than your birth name.

Geek culture helps birth Maker culture.  Suddenly “makerspaces” are viable community resources.  Highly-networked organizations like Burners without Borders, Geeks Without Bounds and various Worldchanging spin-offs can leverage that networking to react quickly to problems and use local resources to help solve problems when infrastructure, for whatever reason  fails.”

Read more:  Open Source Superheroes, Idoru, and the Batman or start with Part 1, Brands, Prosthetic Identities and The Batman (both worth the read)