TALES FROM MAKE: BLOG Pushing Electrons By Phillip Torrone
Bots, how-tos, and virtual worlds all on the MAKE: Blog. Take
a tour of what’s new with Associate Editor Phillip Torrone.

MAKE, Volume 03, displayed in a virtual library inside Second Life.

We have been pushing a lot of share your projects with a mixture of images, text, atoms and electrons since we kicked off MAKE, and CAD files, ingredient lists, and more. Head on before we knew it, the MAKE: Blog hit 3,000 posts in over and add your projects to the MAKE group less than a year — during the first week of 2006. ( instructables.com/make).

That’s about ten posts a day, all about the amazing Then there’s our MAKE Flickr photo pool. Have
things makers are doing, building, and creating. a hack, mod, tweak, or just something plain cool
And we’re just getting warmed up: 24/7, makers are you want to share? Join in, upload, and share your
sending us their stories, their works, and their ideas. photos with hundreds of makers around the world
You, too, can visit Makezine.com and just clickity- ( flickr.com/groups/make/pool).
click the submit button ( makezine.com/blog). Forums! You asked for ’em, we got ’em! We
We’ve also added a few new features and ways launched the forums on Makezine.com, so anyone
to get what you need from MAKE and to publish can talk about all things MAKE-related — from
your projects. getting help in projects to selling MAKE wares in
First up is the MAKEbot. The MAKEbot is an the Maker Marketplace. If you’ve ever posted on
instant message buddy you add to your AOL/AIM/ MAKE in the comments, your account works for the
iChat buddy list. He can tell you the latest news, forums too, or just sign up and start posting with
photos, bookmarks, and forum posts, as well as other makers.
search all of MAKE from your buddy list or from Lastly, visit MAKE in the virtual world. We’ve created
your phone. We’re constantly making the MAKEbot the first magazine based on a real magazine inside
smarter, so give it a try. Just type “help” to get a list the virtual world of Second Life ( secondlife.com). It’s
of all the commands! free to download and use for PCs and Macs, and a
Next, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve Linux version is coming soon at secondlife://
partnered up with Instructables. What the heck is an Tenera/64/192.

Instructable? Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and Phillip Torrone is associate editor of MAKE.

References:

http://instructables.com/make

http://flickr.com/groups/make/pool

http://makezine.com/blog

http://secondlife.com

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