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 Laughing Squid is an online resource for underground art and culture of San Francisco and beyond. We run a blog on our front page and maintain a link database of local and regional art and culture. Laughing Squid also is home to the Squid List, a daily event announcements list and The Tentacle List, a place to post calls for artists and performers. Laughing Squid Web Hosting, the business side of Laughing Squid, is a web hosting service that specializes in web hosting for artists, individuals, non-profits and small organizations. Some of the sites linked from Laughing Squid are hosted by our web hosting operation. The revenue generated from the web hosting side of Laughing Squid helps to fund the art and culture (not-for-profit) side of Laughing Squid.
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 Six Apart Ltd. is the award-winning pioneer in weblog software and services and the maker of the Movable Type publishing platform and the TypePad hosted weblogging service. Based in San Francisco, Six Apart was founded by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002 and joined by LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick in early 2005. LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool, built on open source software. Six Apart's focus is to create simple, yet powerful communication tools that enable millions of individuals, institutions and businesses to express, share and connect in ways never before possible.
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Sponsor WebzineSponsor Webzine! Webzine loves its sponsors. Yes we do. Come get loved. Seriously, by sponsoring Webzine 2005 you will be greasing the wheels of independent media creation. Sponsors help to subsizide the costs of producing the conference enabling us to keep the admission price low and the event accessible by everyone who has the creative itch. In return for subsidizing the love, sponsors get recognition in our program, on our website and from the stage. Sponsors will also have the opportunity of turning on attendees to their service, product or technology on-site with a space to promote. If you’ve got a tool or technology that grassrootes media makers are using, you really should be pouring your Kewl-Aid at Webzine 2005. This PDF has complete sponsorship information. Drop Eddie a line at if you want in or need more information. |