Open Journal Montreal

this is one of my state of the union posts i guess where i fill you in on where we’ve been and what i’ve been thinking about behind the scenes of this hydra headed beasty. Indyish launched with joy and much brilliant art, there were 12 music videos made, and 12 unique garments, and a [...]

So we’re getting this new website off the ground, as you may have heard, called Indyish.com. It’s an online blog and boutique for independent artists (musicians, clothing designers, publishers, painters, etc..) and we’re looking to add a key member to our team. If you know of someone who might be looking for a marketing internship, [...]

Ah so, we’ve been threatening the Open editors for a while with talk of an upcoming Open overhaul, and then we went quiet for a while, and now we’ve sprung it on you. (boo!) This is not an official redesign, just a primping. We’ve added some quickness with the old asynchronous javascript (and by we, [...]

I decided to throw one more project in the air recently and to take on putting together a book for young adults about the design experiment I was a part of last year. Though the idea had been hatching for a while, the making of it was precipitated by the upcoming Vernissage for the new [...]

Open, meet One Neck Hates You.
One Neck Hates You is the work of Edinburgh based comix artist and illustrator Iain Laurie. When not working on his childish, seedy little drawings he enjoys watching the Chevy Chase film “Fletch” on a loop and solving crimes with a supernatural element.
“Here’s a wee xmas card to you [...]

The Problem with OpenJournal and An Open Source-Inspired Proposal:
A comment that turned into a new plan for OpenJournal.
by Risa Dickens.

skip the preamble and take me straight to the problem and the proposed solution, please.

Part 1.
Editing Openness: Lessons from Open Source.
I’m really glad Christian drew the issue of edited openness into the comments about [...]