Greetings from Continuous Labs, Mother’s premiere Mesh-to-Internet (M2I) translation specialists. We want to offer a special welcome to our new subscribers who have joined since we published our free fiction preview in honor of Tellurian New Years.

* Continuous Coast fiction preview!

For those of you who still have not seen it, visit:
http://www.continuouscoast.com/
where we have stories from Reesa Brown, Kit O’Connell, and Steven Brust, three of our fictioneers.

* Mediators Log

The Rabbit Roamers, a team of mediators from Port Outreach, continue to share their E-band communications with the people of Tellus using the Twitter service. You can follow them on their duties at:
http://twitter.com/mediators/

* Recent Voices from Port Outreach

Voices from Port Outreach is a group blog created by the nagara of Port Outreach. In addition to reposting daily logs of the Twitter feed, Voices features regular original content such as the following:

o Who is leaving stencil art around Port Outreach?
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … the-canal/
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … -outreach/
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … -probably/

o An interview with JH Mediator, dispatch for the Rabbit Roamers:
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … ranscript/

o Folk tales, Gurge Riding, and Dolphins with Fali Rider:
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … folk-tale/
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … -and-mods/
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … -dolphins/
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/12/ … every-day/

o An update on some city politics:
http://portoutreach.com/voices/2008/11/ … the-point/

* The Future

Continuous Labs is actively developing the project for the enjoyment of Zayzans and Telurians alike! The future includes an expanded Port Outreach Tourism website, a wiki where Tellurians can learn about Mother, and exciting artifacts imported from Mother.

Thank you for supporting the cause of cross-world understanding in the multiverse!

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Continuous Labs are Mother’s premiere Mesh-to-Internet (M2I) consultants. We proudly offer the highest quality, most reliable communications between the world known as Continuous Coast and the people of Tellus, Saeresh and Vikkir.

The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.

These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, and as those guys are writers and I’m focused on visual art these days, the articles are much more coherent than any attempt I could make to explain the same things.

For the last several months I’ve been working with Continuous Labs on their not-exactly-secret CC project. I’m working as a consulting artist and translator on the Mediator twitter project. I’ve really enjoyed working with the M2I guys (that’s Mesh 2 Internet, a translation protocol) and look forward to sharing more of our work as it goes live here on Tellus. Er, Earth.

It’s still sort of odd to make that distinction.

If you’re a twitter person, you can check out the twitterfeed for the Port Outreach Mediators. It’s sort of typical of Continuous Labs, and most of their clients from what I’ve seen, for somebody like the Mediators to bubble up to the top of the project list. It’s the guys who care right f’ing now that get their stuff done. I bet there’s a lesson in that.

Thankfully, the M2I wordpress plugin isn’t my baby at all, since I heard they just came discovered a basic paradigm barrier. But you can check out the Port Outreach Tourism site in the meantime.