The Well and the Cathedral

Number two in a series on my favorite Cincinnati innovation/open source/collaborative projects, spaces, and events:

Photo courtesy of Bill Barnett (http://www.bill-barnett.com/)

According to The Freelancer’s Union, independent workers make up thirty percent of the nation’s workforce. Independent workers hang out in coffee shops, spare bedrooms, and libraries. Now Cincinnati has a wonderful place for those independent workers to go. It’s got coffee, parking, and really, really smart people to talk to. Isn’t that where you want to be?

Learn more:

Soapbox Media wrote an article about Cincinnati Coworks.

Stop by the Willow Creative offices any weekday between 10 AM and 5 PM, at 222 E. 14th St. in Over the Rhine.

Visit the coworking website (designed by the talented Ms. Anna Baur), become coworking’s friend, or read some tweets.

Recently I finished a fictionalization of Nikola Tesla’s life written by Samantha Hunt, and on a seemingly unrelated note, I tried to explain to my business-savvy dad how a business can make money and still contribute source code back to the world at large. I began thinking about the ways Tesla worked within an essentially open source framework. Read the rest of this entry »

Number one in a series on my favorite Cincinnati innovation/open source/collaborative projects, spaces, and events:

Hive13 (think: five one three)

Photo from Flickr: Projector Fun by p_vince

So like many of the raddest projects I’ll cover, I’m partial to Hive13 because I currently work with one of the main organizers, used to work with another, and also worked out of a studio space right next to the Hive13 space in Camp Washington, and so on and so forth, and my cousin went to grade school with your wife and oh! you went to Finneytown, how is so-and-so?? So Cincinnati.

In any case, the folks at Hive13 are doing some very exciting, very fun things. From code-driven graffiti projectors to big party light up bathroom walls they’re working on a host of great hacks. I was most excited about the DIY 3D printer. Very cool.

Learn more: Soapbox covered Hive13 recently. The organization has a frequently updated site that explains some of the great projects they’re working on as well.

Where: Hive13 is located at 2929 Spring Grove Avenue in the Anchor Building in the Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati.

When: Stop by for a Tuesday evening meeting, or attend their party this Saturday, February 13th.