It's called 'WhipprSnappr', and it's for all those people who have started hating the web and specifically web applications. Alison just made it up - so sadly I can't take credit for the sheer genius, but like all good gate-crashers, I can at least try to brand the power.

If you have begun to roll your eyes whenever you think about the power to harness (as a verb)the synergy of user-centric, user generated content, keeping in mind the ultimate remixability and co-creation potential of our granular networks..

Pata Macedo one of the students in my "building dynamic websites in a ridiculously short amount of time" class told me about this conference in MTL in early may.

http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

We bring together developers and users of the best of free software graphics applications - Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus, and more. 2007 promises to be a fun ride, with tutorials and presentations of applications, and lots of time and space to chat, meet up with old friends, make new ones. Plans will be made, hacking and drawing will be done, fun will be had.

Sound good to me, I am so addicted to Photoshop, maybe this will be the kick in the ace I need to stop relying so heavily on Macromedia image editing tools.

Today is wet and snowy. It's a slushstorm, a slushzard a wet-shoe nightmare. To combat the weather, in about 5 minutes I am going to start reading and writing a five page response to a paper by my new academic super-hero Deirdre McClosky, but first I am going to write about Jen and her Yeps.

See, I had to do this interview via Skype with my good friend who shall remain nameless for academic reasons. To test my little recording device I called Jen and asked her to voice-chat with me for a while, just to make sure the recorder was in good working order for the interview.