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This month we will be taking a look at #SixWordStories and revisiting ~FocusOnLit! 
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Our official dates for 2012 will be the same as last year! Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 - Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
`JamminJo is our interview committee leader, and she has been working very hard to bring us some juicy interviews for this year's week of fun! 
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This will help spread the word and provide me with an easy way to keep track of all participants.
Hey all! 
I'd like to adress something very important for everyone who cares about art and the internet. A lot of help is needed. Please read this and help if you can; it won't take long but it can make a big difference. I'll soon explain what you can do, first I'll explain why your help is needed.
I'd like to adress something very important for everyone who cares about art and the internet. A lot of help is needed. Please read this and help if you can; it won't take long but it can make a big difference. I'll soon explain what you can do, first I'll explain why your help is needed.What's the issue?
The .art top level domain will soon be made available. A corporation will be assigned to manage it. That means that, besides .com, .org, .nl, .tv etc. people will also be able to make websites as www.websitename.art. This would mean a great opportunity for artists and art supporters alike to create art portfolios, websites that help artists in some way, etc.
This can bring great improvements to the art world, if managed well.
That is where the potential trouble starts 
About a dozen companies have applied to manage .art. However, most of them are large companies hoping to make big profit. Most of these companies have nothing to do with art in the first place!
About a dozen companies have applied to manage .art. However, most of them are large companies hoping to make big profit. Most of these companies have nothing to do with art in the first place!That is why deviantART has applied. They want to protect .art and ensure it is used for real, art related purposes only.
Why is this important?
With .art in the hands of dadotart (dA's company through which they're trying to get this tld), the internet would be a better place for the arts. Websites with .art would be cheap and easily available for anyone who is genuine about art and who wants to use this website for art related purposes. And anyone you give your url to, would be assured of real quality content. This would mean a revolution of the online art world, quite honestly.
If it ends up in the hands of those purely after profit, well - expect it to become another meaningless name like .com and .net. The name of ART thrown to shame, really.
How do I help?
This article explains it all! 
If you can leave a comment on there and/ share it with your watchers that would be great. And what will especially help a lot is to leave a comment to ICANN directly in your support of dadotart and deviantART. To do that, click here!
If you can leave a comment on there and/ share it with your watchers that would be great. And what will especially help a lot is to leave a comment to ICANN directly in your support of dadotart and deviantART. To do that, click here!
Help support our application to manage .ARTView in Spanish
DeviantART announced a month ago that through a new organization, Dadotart we applied to manage a new Top Level Domain (TLD) called “.ART.” We are committed to having the .ART TLD — the Internet addresses that could end in .ART — organized and distributed with the full participation of the global art community.
We need your help!
We need your help to show public support for the Dadotart application. The application process to manage a TLD is long, arduous, and intricate. Help us gather as a true art-centric community. And please spread the word to everyone who loves the arts or is part of the arts because we aim to have .ART be home to everyo
Submit a Comment to ICANN
The following process for submitting a comment to ICANN is in-depth, but will be monumentally helpful in the success of the Dadotart campaign.
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To leave a comment on the ICANN website, please follow these steps:
Visit gtldcomment.icann.org and click “Create a User Account.”
Complete the listed information, making sure your password is at least 8 characters long and uses at least one capital letter and one number.
Verify your e-mail address by clicking the link in the e-mail sent to you by ICANN. Be sure to do so within 5 hours, or your e-mail will be deleted from ICANN’s system.
Using the e-mail address and password you just created, log into the website by clicking “Login to Submit an Applic
Thank you.
Thanks so much for reading. 
As a community member of dA and a supporter of the arts and the internet, this means a lot to me as this truly could make a difference to how the future of the art world looks.
As a community member of dA and a supporter of the arts and the internet, this means a lot to me as this truly could make a difference to how the future of the art world looks.skin by =trezoid, modified by $namenotrequired
How will having to pay for your site for it to be taken seriously as art benefit artists in any way? You already have to pay to have your site, why charge artists an extra?
I mean, why is this necessary?
Sure, www.example.art is cool, but it's not a revolution, not something that will change the arts on the internet. If it actually changes something, it will be for worse.
Imagine you now have to own a .art domain to be taken seriously as an artist. So you go up to DA, who's won the dispute and now manages the thing, and say "here's my money, I want a .art domain". What if they say "no, your site is not really artistic, sorry"? There's nothing you can do, except keep your account at DeviantArt, which is owned by the same people. Sounds strange, doesn't it? How are we assured issues from this site would not be carried over to your owning of a .art domain? You're banned from DA, and you will never own a .art domain and subsequently your art-site won't be taken seriously.
That's the good case scenario. Where .art is sucessful and taken seriously, and not "another meaningless name like .com and .net." The name of ART could be thrown to shame, as you say, even with .art usage managed be DA. What if the same problem with porn we have here, on this site, were to happen to .art sites. People make movies and take pictures of themselves and upload to a site, then buy the .art domain. Will DA forbid them? Or will they let them pass automatically, because, you know, it's so much work filtering porn? How can you say that set of pictures are not erotic nude photography? DA has serious issues drawing a clear line, will it be any different if they were to sell domains to users, instead of letting them in their community for free? Or are they of the mindset of "as long as they can pay..."? You seem to assume they're not, they have high morals, because you expect them to behave any different from those other nameless companies.
I fear the name of art will be thrown to shame regardless of who runs this .art project.