Our latest “Clip Art of the Month” post is up on Worldlabel.com.

With so much attention directed at Apple and their highly anticipated tablet technology, it may be interesting to discuss the approach they’ve taken toward content regulation and how it might impact the open source community. As you read the full blog post, feel free to share your thoughts.

Also, visit Open Clip Art Library to view and contribute work of your own!

That’s right! The StatusNet crew invites you #StatusCheckBRU to grab a beer on Saturday night, February 6, 2010 in Brussels at nearby “A La Mort Subite” for a couple of hours to talk all things StatusNet, the free network service microblogging software. Myself (@rejon) and @Evan will be on hand and  have free limited number of new StatusNet shirts, loads of new stickers, and lots of discussions to be had. This is a StatusCheck to coincide with FOSDEM, a Free and Open Software Developer Meeting. You don’t miss StatusNet CEO and Identi.ca Founder, Evan Prodromou’s presentation on Sunday at 4 PM at FOSDEM, either.

http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/820

You are invited to this #StatusCheckBRU where we will have beers, free shirts, free StatusNet sign-ups for private beta, stickers, and great discussion fun. Please go to the wiki page and let us know you are coming!

Put it on your calendars and share it with your friends!

StatusCheckBRU, 6 PM

A La Mort Subite
rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
B-1000 Brussels
+32-(0)2-513.13.18

Map: http://ur1.ca/l16z

http://www.alamortsubite.com/

UPDATE: In addition to some other staffers and community members, StatusNet’s own User Experience Designer, @csarven (Sarven Capadisli) will be on-hand at FOSDEM and the StatusCheckBRU.

For the first Clip Art of the Month entry of 2010, I chose to take a look back at the preceding year in the Clip Art Community. Doing so may offer some insight into what to expect in the coming year.

Visit World Label’s Blog to read the whole post and Open Clip Art Library to view more outstanding Clip Art submissions from this past year!

Fabricatorz is proud to promote an affiliation with the Society for Experimental Cultural Production.  We provided logo design services for the Society and their Kunsthalle Kowloon Project.  Kunsthalle Kowloon aims to provide:

..an imagined platform for the tentative investigation of cultural production.

Visit the Kunsthalle Kowloon Project Page to learn more about Robin and Venus’ work. We look forward to future collaborations with the Society!

Jon Phillips recently sat down for an interview with Tim Jaeger of SignalFive, via Skype, to discuss his recent projects, in what Tim calls a ‘Status Check.’  The session is aimed at orienting the reader with current developments in technology and culture.

In the interview, Jon speaks of his concept of ‘Open Marketing,’ as well as his involvement with Status.net and why it’s fundamentally different than Twitter:

But Status.net, the difference between that and Twitter is that the software is open, so you can install it on your own service internally like Motorola’s done, there are some really big companies that are rolling it out that are going to be announced soon.

Read the rest of the interview on SignalFive’s Blog, and get informed!