You may or may not have heard about the Meow Parlour, the first of what is sure to be a truckload of kitty cafés around the country. The Meow Parlour [...]
image credit martin jakobsen via flickr Crowdfunding campaigns cover a variety of causes: from the quickey multitool, a pocket device that'll tackle everyday tasks, to saving a classic drive-in theater. There's [...]
Kickstarter reports that to date, $903 million has been pledged in support of more than 52 thousand Kickstarter projects. While that's exciting news, the flip side is that more than [...]
Let’s talk a little about crowdfunding history. It was made last week and was enormously gratifying if you were a television nerd of my ilk. Yes, I’ll admit that I’m [...]
In the vital and exciting mood of SXSW and the invigorating artistic spirit that thrives there, I’d like to share the film that won best documentary short subject: Inocente. It [...]
The Library of Congress has now included a crowdsourced and crowdfunded project, the results of which are called Emoji Dick. Originally launched as a publishing project on Kickstarter, Emoji Dick [...]
With crowdfunding platforms proliferating in every industry (from publishing to aerospace), it is no surprise that the comic book industry would launch their own crowdfunding platofrm. This month, iVerse Media [...]
Maybe you’re big into The Hunger Games books in all of its juvenile dark appeal or maybe you identify with the trials and tribulations that face the Grantham and Crawley [...]
Even as our country continues to manage its way out of some tough economic times, everyone continues to be effected and find new ways to solve old problems. Including students [...]
If you’re a part of my family, then you are familiar with the musician Amanda Palmer – whose musical artistry has long-inspired my musician brother. But, in case you’re not, [...]