I have added categories to the site. Seeing as this is a community the categories are cross-user. That means, when you add a category, everyone else can use that category. It is ok if the actegories are specific, we will create sets fo categories after we have a bunch of them in the future. To associate a journal with a category, just type the category name into the category box in your journal publish box. If you click on the (?) next to the box you can see alist of all categories already added by other users. Clicking on the category name assigns your journal to that category. You can also add a new category to the list, by typing in a category that doe snot yet exist.

You can update previous journals categories using your journal update icon. You can always change a journal category at any point as well. Once you have a journal asisgend ot a category , that category will show up in a list uner your favorite five list. By click ing on the category, the user is presented with a list of titles that you have associated with that category. Clicking the title load sthe entry.

My plan is to make it so that you can subscribe to a category and then have new posts of that category emailed to you. Or RSS feeds of category.

[size=m] What Is The Infringement Festival?[/size]

Various members of Buffalo, New York's arts community have come together to organize the first annual Buffalo infringement Festival -- An eleven-day event designed to promote eclectic, independent, experimental, and politically charged productions of a wide array of artistic projects including theater, performance art, live installations, street theater, and multi-media presentations.



The "buffalo infringement festival" is the result of six months of planning by an ad hoc collection of volunteers from the local theater and arts community and is a part of the international infringement festival circuit which holds similar events in cities throughout North America including Halifax (June 2-12), Montreal (June 16-26), Ottawa (June 30-July 10, Toronto (July 14-24), and New York City (August 25-September 4). Further information on the international component of the infringement festival can be found at www.infringementfestival.com

We are excited to announce that this event will be held at various venues in the Allentown area.

Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, August 7, 2005

Local writers, directors, and performers – as well as artists from New York City and Montreal – have answered an open call to present their work as part of this new festival. The resulting assortment of activities includes world premieres of one-person shows, gender-reversed productions of classical theatrical pieces, street theatre, political cabaret, puppetry, experimental work, virtual reality simulation, hip-hop, slam poetry, interpretive dance, outdoor screenings of family-oriented films, presentations of poetry readings by area high school students, and much more. No single style or aesthetic predominates; some events

Here is a list of performances

Venues

1. 1. Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St)
   
2. 2. Nietzsche's Bar (248 Allen Street)
   
3. 3. Allen/College Promenade (Parking Lot at Allen & College)
   
4. 4. Day's Park
   
5. 5. Allen Street Dance Studio (85 Allen Street)
   
6. 6. Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center (175 Elmwood)
   
7. 7. Coit House (414 Virginia Street)
   
8. 8. New Phoenix Theatre on the Park (95 North Johnson Park)
   
9. 9. Hallwalls (700 Main Street)
   
10. 10. SoundLab (110 Pearl Street)

I just added a new option for

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I renders like this: Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now.

I also made it so that the (e:name) links can now detect punctuation after them so no more extra space for links like (e:paul)'s journal

Old web link formatting works the same as before, simply type in the whole address and it becomes an address.
--Paul

omg, the artvoice survey is back up but all the answers are gone. I think everyone has to revote. Now it checks your IP as a method to stop you from voting twice. That really sucks for poor people like us who have 3 roomates on one computer network. I guess artvoice just assumes everyone can afford their own connection.

I have been debating and debating what to do with the site. I think I have decided not to go with the home connection for my $4000 superserver because I don't want the responsibility of keeping it up, seeing as I cannot find a qualified server admin to volunteer or help out.

Dr. Halavais suggested I talk with a woman named Kera who is a graduate of the UB informatics dept, web designer at Medaille and knows of a good local hosting company. After getting ahold of her I was able to contact buffalo web hosting They also seem really nice and local which is good but pretty freakin' expensive. I will end up paying $46/month which is really a lot to me considering I pay it all out of pocket.

We also will be losing shell access and with Buffalo web hosting. Because I don't get ssh and I can't compile my own stuff - blah. A dedicated box with them is really expensive. Around $250/month which is pretty crazy freakin's expensive for a site that is totally free.

I wonder what options the future will hold for (e:strip). Maybe if someone out there is a grant writer, they could help us write for grants. I have no idea where to start on that (e:terry) said he could get us declared a federal non-profit but that still wouldn't help the server situation but may open up more grant opportunities.

So either a grant writer or people will have to donate. However, the best solution is that someone can offer me a really nice job for $40-50k a year where I will work really hard and just pay for it out of pocket. Here is my portfolio I seriously have no problem paying for it all to support this local community, I just wish I had a bigger personal budget to pull from or didn't have $70,000 in student loans that I will have to start paying next month.

Kera suggest making estrip merchandise that people can buy. I like the idea but who is going to buy a tee-shirt or a coffee mug? Maybe if we put (e:matthew) ' s photos on them! Maybe I will just stick with where we are for now. an not care about the whole local thing.