Open Journal Montreal

After a summer full of afternoons at the Copa, my friend Emilie and I are always left feeling we owe the other a beer. We make half-hearted attempts to balance out, but the math of our friendship is on that longish list of things we’ve decided to let go of. Now, take my financial situation [...]

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 [...]

On this page there are pictures of the OpenJournal core contributors who are or ever have been. I hope you enjoy perusing through this stuff, these guys are great. Some of them contribute with writing and some contribute in more unseen ways. There’s lots to do so help is always welcome, email me if you’d [...]

by Risa Dickens Singing is hard, man, that shit ain’t easy. My friend Emilie got back into singing with a band the other day. She hadn’t gotten up in front of a gang of musicians and had to throw in her thoaty two cents in years; not since back when she was 19 or 20 [...]

No single person ever does anything. It’s always groups of people. We wanted to know how to go about building such a system. So I got interested in the subject of neural nets. Warren McCulloch in particular inspired me. He described how he could excise a part of the brain, and the function in that [...]

Shoot the Moon has a sound that speaks right to something in me. They are like Sonic Youth but less loud, like Arcade Fire with a twist of ska, that makes them a little more laidback, Montreal, easy-going. I need to preface a review of their music by this caveat because the fact of a [...]