An Urgent Message from Al Gore

Hi All,

As you may or may not be aware there is a very large and important meeting occurring in Bali on the subject of Climate Change. We just received this message from Al Gore and ask that you click the link and lend your support to moving up the agenda for the global treaty and let others know about this. There really isn’t anything more important than this. Read more

Protect Yo’self!—What Is Security?

Hi! Back already? Well, let’s get into it.

This first regular article in the COMPUTERS series deals with the definition of security and points toward where we will be going in future articles. We need this definition because a lot of what you do with your computer actually involves security. Read more

Allforart has acquired the Domain Names for the Music Division

While we can’t reveal details yet, in late November, Allforart acquired the domain names for the music division. This is a preparatory step to establishing the sites so we can move forward with publication plans for the songwriters we are working with.

The sites are now going into design and will be released at in time for the songwriters to take advantage of them, should they wish to.

NDK Creative Artist, said, “These two domain names are ideas I had developed more than two decades ago. They arose from my first love, creating songs and music. They came out of experience with the music industry and after a great deal of effort was spent coming to grips with how it works and many, many disappointments. I’m very excited about what this means for Allforart’s future and the many songs we’ve been creating. It’s great, really great to know this part of what’s been planned is coming to fruition.”

The domain names and exact nature of these particular businesses will be announced in the Free Articulator at a later date.

Emmah Williams and Engender Truth gaining wider Recognition through Networking

Emmah Williams, Creative Artist (storyteller and poet - works in progress), and activist for peace in the Gender Wars through her Engender Truth blog, recently received email from Edward Dunning, a co-Founder of the Family Interventions Project in California and a counselor for families. Read more

The Secret of Happiness, the Awesome Power of Memes and Toxic Ideas

A little while ago, I discovered a site called TED. On that site I discovered a remarkable set of video speeches. One by Lawrence Lessig finally clarified why the man who created the Creative Commons License did so. Now I grok, where before I only supported.

Interestingly enough this lead me back to a memory of my studies of licensing, copyright, and other intellectual property issues that I carried out in the early Nineties, and which have never really stopped since then, though they have quieted down a bit now.

In one of these video speeches a philosopher called Dan Bennett offers The secret of happiness:

Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

That’s what happened to me. I found something more important than I am, an idea, and I dedicated my life to it. That dedication is beginning to pay off, even as I write this. My dedication to that idea has kept me sane, happy and alive.

What’s a meme? “A meme,” as described by Dan Bennett in the video linked below is “an information package with attitude.”

He goes on to talk about memes in the course of talking about the replication of ideas and this has some relevance to being a Creative Artist. So I would like to recommend to you all that you take a few moments to watch his video because it is about as he puts it “[safeguarding] the benign and useful variants of our ideas as they continue to spread” and this is something important to Creative Artists as I have noted in many different areas and articles of the Free Articulator.

Meet Soo Doh Nim, friend to all Creative Artists

I’m a phonetic prankster as you’ll discover if you read much of my work or chat with me online or otherwise. Forget that sentence. Yeah, yeah, I know “Where is your work apart from here at the Free Articulator?” It’s coming, believe me, all you see happening at the Free Articulator is just part of the set-up.

This is a Creative Artist Marketing article. Soo Doh Nim is not a real person, but a great friend and you really should get acquainted with Soo, because she has a lot to offer every creative individual, and I don’t mean litigation. Read more