I ran into the inim­itable Tim Ander­son today. He just got back from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, meet­ing peo­ple and col­lect­ing infor­ma­tion about low tech mod­ern life. Appar­ently he has a gig writ­ing a col­umn on “heir­loom tech­nol­ogy” for a new mag­a­zine called Make, soon to begin pub­li­ca­tion by O’Reilly.

I’m glad Tim O’Reilly (who, inci­den­tally, I met a few years ago) has made a mis­sion out of giv­ing gadget-toting hip­ster geek types an inoc­u­la­tion of good ol’ Amer­i­can “do-it-yourself” attitude.

Says their web page: “…We chose to focus on cool things you can do with tech­nol­ogy, not just what to buy… Our goal is that all of us can learn to become mak­ers, just as we might learn to cook or use wood­work­ing tools.”