2008
11 March
From the days of usenet groups and bulletin boards, fandom has been what the web has been made for (well, that and p0rn). From the time when Deadheads converged on The Well, the web has been a place for fans to congregate and discuss the lucky subjects of their fandom. In very minute detail. A lot of this has proved some of the most innovative of online communities while other have just been.. well.. deadheads.
And all that is great about persnickity and dedicated online fandom is coming together as the Fangirl Project .
30 January
(Subtitle: this is not about facebook)
In response to the many breathless odes to social networking tools (and who can compete with news ways to play Scrabble), we offer our hazy recollections highlights of 2007. And apparently you can make friends online now.
2007
30 May
Radical Reference is a group of radical librarians and information workers who provide reference and research support to activist communities. They first formed as a support service to activists at the Republic National Convention in Washington (US) in 2004 and have more recently been present at the NY Anarchist Book Fair.
As well as street reference, Radical Reference also provide reference services to activists and independent media via their website at www.radicalreference.info. James Jacobs (one of the founders of RR) and Lia Friedman (a RR volunteer based in San Diego) kindly answered some questions for DZ.
25 April
Elliat Graney-Saucke is a radical queer artist and the director of an upcoming documentary, Travelqueeries. The film explores issues of identity, gender, creativity and geography through the experiences of queer activists and artists in various communities throughout Europe.
2006
07 November
One of the missions of Dandizette is to chart the interesting and peculiar adventures of freaks and geeks both online and off. But being the total geeks that we are, we occasionally only notice one or the other at a time. The internet is a largely vacuous and lonely place and claims that its sole existence is based on/around the distribution of porn are very, very true.
There are always fun, creative, challenging people and events who exist and operate online and this is by no means a definitive list — it’s more like a starting point. So, on this exploratory quest to discover whether the web really does offer more than a million and one ways to procrastinate at work, we recommend the following.
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