How to receive blog update notifications

Everyone has a multiple websites that they visit regularly, and it’s not efficient to manually visit the site every day (or hour).  Here are two easy ways to receive update notifications.
Method 1: RSS
Here’s a primer on this preferred method.
CDFi has two main RSS feeds:
1) blog updates
2) calendar updates
Method 2: Email
Email is still a good way [...]

SUNY Student Art Exhibition: A Review

For Today’s avdenture Thom and I walked down to the NYS Museum to behold the wonders of the 2008 Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition. I urge you to check it out, even if for only 15 minutes, it will be time well spent. This well-deserved showcase of talent includes a number of medias, including [...]

On Fridays, The New York State Museum, Man Study, and Squid Vicious.

It’s Friday and Marissa and I headed down to the New York State Museum in lieu of further pursuing the Keep Talking, Genius showcase grant project.  We’ve temporarily suspended work on the grant because right now the Federation of Ideas is in physical flux and we’re only planning to exist in hyperspace for a little [...]

Toolbox for Urban Sustainability.

Last Thursday at St. Anthony’s Church on Grand Street, I caught Skotty from Rhizome Collective speaking about his new book _Toolbox for Sustainable City Living_ that he co-authored with Stacey Pettigrew.  His efforts outline the basic systems that urban city dwellers can modify to conserve resources: water conservation, growing food at home, heating, and composting/waste [...]

there is an awesome show this friday at Point FIVE!!!

some of the details got cut off, but the show will start at 7, and it will cost $3

Times Union Coverage

Here’s the article about the Board’s decision to close Point Five.
I have not heard any cries of anguish over the closing.  Is the silence passivity at its worst or has CDFi not engaged the community enough?

Fold.IT

Here’s a fun exercise that teaches basic science and allows for non-mindless fun.
Fold.IT
Fold.IT grew out of the Rosetta distributed computing project.

Crowd pleaser.

Crowd pleaser., originally uploaded by CDFI.
Krafteteria!
It’s gonna happen again next month!
All-purpose making things!

Grant writing, part deux.

This is THE 100th post on the CDFI blog(!) AND my first post as the official Capital District Federation of Ideas Summer Intern ’08. To begin, Marissa in abstract form: I’m a college student living in Albany; I read (seriously, at this point I either need to invest in at least two more bookshelves or [...]

The Queen Bee – This Wednesday.