In recent years, do-it-yourself programs for amateur genealogists have proliferated, along with commercial ancestry Web sites.
He cited the example of the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-size computer that enables do-it-yourself programming and costs as little as five dollars.
But however attractive some of the commercials may be, he said, he doesn't think do-it-yourself programs like VizzVox are a threat to more traditional marketing services.
At NewsEdge he and his team found that do-it-yourself programs based on creating useful content and publishing it on-line at virtually no cost consistently generated more interest from qualified buyers than expensive profession public relations programs.
"When you play by yourself, you program the music by yourself.
Although I admire the ingenuity of your do-it-yourself reparations program, I can't endorse it.
I often looked at the carved, pained expression of one of the living room Christs when my father stalled the television remote on something particularly dull — episodes of that PBS do-it-yourself remodeling program come to mind — and thought, Haven't you been through enough?
And he's finally latched onto a Big Idea that could reshape the country even more than the Kemp-Roth tax cuts did in 1981 — namely, the Republican budget he masterminded, particularly its radical vision for turning Medicare into, essentially, a do-it-yourself voucher program.
CHARLIE ROSE: You taught yourself to program so you could understand how cities work?
