The times they are a changin'. From here on out, personal thoughts, ideas, and posts will land here at me.raddevon.com. My former blog is now devoted to tech, the Internet, and gaming. Check that out at raddevon.com.

Let’s try this again…

Posted: April 9th, 2008 | Author: raddevon | Filed under: Projects | Comments

I’m going to try to actually start posting again due to popular demand. ;-)

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Another Shot at wheresitmade

Posted: August 5th, 2007 | Author: raddevon | Filed under: Projects | Comments

You may remember the project I blogged about previously called wheresitmade. I’m giving it another lease on life this time self-hosted on the MediaWiki engine. This time there won’t be a private beta. It’s going to go live as soon as I get it ready enough. Then I’ll go back and work on refinement. I’ll post another update when you can check it out. Let’s hope it makes it this time!

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wheresitmade.org

Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Author: raddevon | Filed under: Projects | Comments

There’s one disclaimer before I post this information. This is a facet of my personality of which I’m not very fond. I don’t like starting things that I don’t finish, but I do it. I’ve always done it. This isn’t something I’m wearing like a badge.

wheresitmade.org

One of my personal missions is to purchase responsibly in as many ways as I’m able. I hate consumer culture, but I can’t deny that I am a part of it. I try to minimize my damage by not purchasing from companies that have poor labor practices. I have found that information about the manufacturing of products is very difficult to come by. I often have to contact companies directly to find out where there products are made. I oftentimes get no response even then. I decided it would be nice to have a wiki which would catalog different products and where they are made as well as other information that may be of ethical concern to prospective consumers. Read the rest of this entry »

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