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News from the Future of Public Media
Crafting Public Radio
email discuss Posted by Jessica Clark on Mar 7, 2008 at 9:11 AM
Etsy—the innovative online marketplace for artists and crafters—is hosting a series of articles on podcasting as a form of DIY creativity, featuring interviews with and tips from independent and public radio producers, ruminations on the overlap between crafting and independent media making, and suggestions for the best podcasts from the Etsy community.
Etsy itself has been a case study in how independent producers can succesfully band together to offer their products to a larger audience. In the process, crafters have organized around environmental and consumer issues, creating a recycling project for swapping supplies, and campaigns urging shoppers to buy handmade items as an antidote to consumerism run amok. The site offers buyers tools for shopping locally, as well as a nifty geolocator that shows where the last 100 craft projects came from. Less socially conscious, but most fun: their color picker.
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