Word: do-it-yourself
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...this issue. "The Faces of India's Future" profiles four brave individuals who are working to change India. Last September, Ratnesar and Stein teamed up to write GetRich.com, an inside look at Silicon Valley e-commerce entrepreneurs seeking to make millions, fast. This week the pair takes us inside the do-it-yourself dotcom scene, where everyone from Stephen King to scruffy indies is using the Internet to distribute his own music, TV, film and books. Ratnesar is now based in London, and so the team's techno-savvy came in handy. They wrote the story over speakerphone, with their...
...lots of free time to make his own movies, TV shows, albums, books and even radio programs at the merest fraction of what it cost only a few years ago. It has suddenly become cheap to create your own entertainment--and cheaper still to distribute it online. It's the do-it-yourself dream, and it's seizing the imagination of thousands of auteurs--amateur and professional alike--yearning for a mass-market way to express themselves...
...case you missed the news, iMovie is the do-it-yourself video-editing program that comes bundled with Apple's high-end iMac DV. Since Steve Jobs decided, not unreasonably, that home digital video is going to be as big as desktop publishing, Apple has been cramming its website and its TV ads with homespun iMovies from kids and such celebs as John Cleese and Gregory Hines. All rave about how easy the software's editing process is. They're mostly right. Your footage, when you download it from the camera, arrives presliced in bite-size clips based on where...
...Chain Mail Smith: Do-it-yourself medieval metal-armor kit; no child should joust without...
...phone: buy her a copy of Teen Digital Diva II (Activision/Girl Games; $25.99). This PC-only software lets her create, edit and print her own teen publication (or, if she prefers privacy, her own "cosmic journal" with password protection). It features everything you'd expect from the genre: do-it-yourself astrology, numerology, relationship quizzes, a "dream oracle" that always finds something positive to say about your nightmares, and a virtual makeover room that lets you change your image to your heart's content. You need never buy Cosmo again...