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Blue Ant

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"She pulled out a molded vinyl figure of the Blue Ant ant. [...]
It had a determined smirk, the expression of a cartoon underdog fully aware of its own secret status as a superhero. Its posture conveyed that too, arms slightly bent at its sides, fists balled, feet in a martial artist's ready T-stance."

- Spook Country, William Gibson, 2007.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch

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Tomorrow I start a new job.

I was at my last job for six years, so this is quite a change.

I'm kinda excited.


2009 Good Stuff

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In January the sources for Goto 10's "Floss+Art" book were released, which feature the expanded version of my essay "Open Source Art Again".

In March I went to the FSF's "Libre Planet" conference, which was great. Thanks to Mako for the sofa!

In December I went to Goto 10's "Make Art" conference to talk about Foocorp's libre.fm project, which went live in April.

Furtherfield continued to publish my reviews. I find writing reviews very hard, and it's always good when I get feedback, I think my most popular review on that basis was the one of Pall Thayer's excellent Microcodes.

CIAC published some different reviews, which gave me a good chance to review work I wouldn't have had a chance to otherwise.

And I finished a good number of projects, including The Cybernetic Artworld, The Colour Of News, The Colour Of, the code for the Demo Graphic Replicators, and Random Aesthetics.

A big thank you to everyone whose material and moral support made this all possible. I feel very lucky to have got to do so much good stuff this year. I hope to do even more next year.

LP - Libre Planet 2009

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Libre Planet was great.

The FSF extended their annual get-together to two days this year and discussed free network services and their high priority projects as well as free software activism. It was held at Harward's science centre building, which was a great setting for rooms and for wifi but not so hot on food. ;-)

I met lots of cool people, and I'm going to blog about what I learnt over the next few days. Before that I need to say a massive thank you to Benjamin Mako Hill for letting me sleep on one of his sofas, to Matt Lee for suggesting I attend the convention, and to the rest of the FSF staff for running such a well-planned and successful event.

Boston, and Libre Planet 2009

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Due to an unlikely series of events I'm going to be in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts from Friday 20th to Monday 23rd of March. Amongst other things I'll be at the FSF's Libre Planet conference.

If you'll be in the area or at the convention you can contact me using the comments here, identi.ca, twitter, facebook or email where I am always "robmyers", although for email you need to add rob@ ... .org .

And if you won't be in the area but you've any questions regarding network service freedom or the FSF's high priority projects add them in the comments.

Snow Fail

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As Canada points and laughs, another bit of England succumbs to a few centimetres of snow. The bit I'm in, as it happens. Brrr.

Everything Seems To Be In Order

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I've changed hosts again and swapped this weblog back to Wordpress because Matt said to.

Comments have been kept and the archives should be the same as before.

Hopefully a nippier system will encourage me to post more.

Busy, Busy

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Would you like to be a GNU webmaster? Let me know if you would. I'm now the chief GNU webmaster. We need more webmasters.

I've been coding for various art projects, writing and drawing (yay!) furiously and reviewing books for Furtherfield. The drawings are mostly for a project of imagined Rothko paintings inspired by recent reports that some of his work was hung the wrong way up at the Tate...

I had a great time at a party at the HTTP gallery on Saturday, talking to lots of interesting people about art, games, new media and old television shows. I don't know how the old television shows got in there.

But all of this leaves very little time for blogging...


Busy, Busy

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I'm doing GNU webmaster work, writing reviews for Furtherfield, trying to gather unfinished art projects together for presentation, and enjoying "Adam Adamant Lives" on DVD.

So I'm not blogging much at the moment.

Site Moved Again

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A big thank you to Matt for hosting this site for the last few months.

If anything on this blog or the site is broken do let me know.

It should be easier to comment here now, you can comment anonymously again.

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