hey all, having been technically unemployed since robot6 (december 2001) but still eeking out an existence and lifestyle since and knowing that others have barely managed to pull off the same, I've decided to refine my skills in layout and DIY publishing by documenting what geeky/cornputer/whatnot types have been doing since the free money spree ended.
So, the tenatively titled "unemployed hacker" zine. Thought I know more than the average script kiddie, I don't claim to be a whoopass hacker guy. I just want to curate articles of the life and times of people who make their livelihoods with their curiosity and minds any way they can post the venture capitol daydream. I don't think it'll make any money, I just want to document a piece of history that has been neglected. How do you live in a grey area of legitimacy, dubious income and post bubble cynicism? I aplologize for the reporter speak. I am not Declan. So I'm soliciting articles. How do you employ yourself as a consultant? How badly do DMCA and CBDTPA (s. 2048) scare you? Can you actually telecommute from baker beach via wifi and a chili can antenna? How do you manage an open-source project, broke but free of the threat of your company stealing your work? Everybody mocks the .com business whatnot, but nobody tells the story of the skilled net and code guru who had a heyday, and now is grasping at straws. Anyway, I wanna make a zeitgiest focused zine about these kind of people so our grandkids can look back and say "grampa was a hacker jefferson, dubya was a chump". If you're interested, lemme know. I'd like to distribute via pdf and zine at conventions and 2600 meetings. Any web help...though I am a total web-monkey, would help too. lemme know what you think...I'm open to suggestions, above all else, I want to tell YOUR story. tack ------------------------------------------------ Article 19: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
