Word: do-it-yourself
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Like most Kenyans, Rachel Kung'u takes a do-it-yourself approach to security. Last year, police did nothing when gangs went on a killing spree and blocked the main road into Nairobi during ethnic violence following the elections. Kungu had to face down the thugs herself. Eventually, she persuaded them to back off. "I told them, now that you blocked the road, food cannot go through, people cannot flee," Kung'u remembers. "They were starving their own people...
...Self-Serve Concierge. Select Sheraton Hotels in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, as well as Seattle's boutique Hotel 1000, have added Microsoft Surface to their lobbies. The service is basically a do-it-yourself concierge, where up to four guests can sit around an interactive flat screen surface built into a table and look through city maps, get restaurant and bar recommendations, find 24-hour pharmacies and get directions to nearby destinations. At Hotel 1000, you can also use the concierge station to view and edit photos on your camera's memory card...
...call it "21 Ways to Serve America." This is about practice, not theory. As I said, America is a do-it-yourself culture. And at Time we believe that even fixing the world can be a DIY project...
...terms of influence, alternative musicians borrow from the rough edges of rock's history. Out of the 1960s comes the spirit of social protest and artistic freedom. From the late 1970s come the primitive, do-it-yourself sensibility of punk and the slam-dancing and stage-diving mayhem that went with it. "We rip off everyone equally," says Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon, which has sold more than 1 million copies of its first album this year. The trick is to sample riffs from somebody who's so long gone that the modern repetition of it sounds fresh...
...Ph.D student Alice Marwick calls a “microcelebrity,” one who is popular because it seems like he is a part of the audience itself. There is a democratic quality to this celebrity: we choose whom to make famous.But on the other hand, the do-it-yourself quality that shows up in the content of memes leads to serious questions of authenticity. Anyone can be themselves on the Web, but the second skin of an online identity means that anyone can also be anyone else or say anything on the Web. We?...