NetWeed.com Online space with an anarcho, left, lib perspective.
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netweed - web directory, news, projects, hip hop
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The netweed story by Clyde Smith
netweed began with an idea for a "directory of alternative culture" - radical politics, experimental art, stuff like that. But when I finally got it online, my energy focused on the projects hosted by netweed, so I called it a "project platform." I also used variations on such slogans as "Resources for Radicals" to encompass both the projects and the directory. Now, netweed has developed to the point that my energies are focused where necessary. I'm sure the labels and slogans will continue to shift as I maintain the current esoteric blend.
So the hosted projects were the initial focus, both my hip hop projects as well as Clay Richard's contributions as The Postmodern Anarchist and John Dancy-Jones' ongoing activities with The Paper Plant. And I am gradually building the directory by creating links pages for specific categories, like the Anarchy links. My goal is to grow netweed organically with some projects eventually moving to their own domain and others staying rooted right here.
What's up with the name?
I came up with netweed while pulling weeds at my parents' house in the summer of 1999, when the Internet bubble was expanding rapidly and causing nutty projects to get lots of money. I was pondering all that and imagining how I could join in and somehow my long-standing interest in alternative resouce directories that began with The Whole Earth Catalog got mixed in with netmania, weedpulling and rhizomatic theory.
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