Ubiscribe 0.9.0 is a collaborative editorial wiki, both a publication and working environment in its own right. Ubiscribe is a publication named after and generated from research conducted at the Jan van Eyck Academie design department, in Maastricht, Netherlands. It inquires into the conditions for personal and pervasive publishing and participatory media in today’s cultural production. As an ongoing experiment in open collaborative writing and editing, for its publication it uses networked writing and editing tools as well as print-on-demand reproduction technology, for occasional back up and review copies.

"Ubiscribe" was coined by Jouke Kleerebezem in 2003, after playing around with other Ubi-names as "Ubitext" "Ubilog" "Ubiscript "– searching for a label which would connect the idea of pervasive computation, as in Ubicomp, mobility, and what dawned as a consequence of ubiquitous embedded and roaming computers: ubiquitous media output, or pervasive publishing. A couple of years later we see the rise of a wireless "Internet of things", which will perfect the connection between networks of information and networks of objects and locations in the physical world.

Contents are: Recent Changes of the Wiki. Editor’s Introduction, The Address is the Message, Essay; Anthologies on Network Communities & Other Geographies, As We May Think Database; (Hi)stories of Computer Science, The Blogger as Electronic Performer, The Blogabulary, The Book as a Backup and Luxurious Object, Collected Quotes, Copyright, Open Content and Remix Cultures, Daily Operations Remix, Designing Participation: the Web Design Timeline, The Dutch-Language Wikpedia, The Issue Graph, Do Not Write More Than 12 Lines, Famous & Less Famous Images, Glossary, Google Search & Other Notes, Metadata and the Essayist of the Future, Mining NQPaOFU for "Personal publishing", "Biography", "Documented Life" including Anchor Longlist, Of Writing and Other Things, a Collection of Quotes, Personal Data-mining 2003-2004, Sewer, Gas & Electric (G.A.S.), (G.A.S.) List of Tags and Search Queries, Thinktank Conversation, Thinktank Media, Threads & Queries, Understanding the Information Age, The One Who Blogs Exists, Wild Edit, Knowledge is Using It, Workspaces, Writing Tools.

Performance: The first issue, Ubiscribe PoD 0.9.0, was launched on May 21, 2006 during the "bookish weekend" at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

"Pervasive Personal Participatory - Ubiscribe 0.9.0"
Contributing Editors: Arie Altena, Sandra Fauconnier,
Claudia Hardi, Jouke Kleerebezem, Inga Zimprich
Format: 16 x 22.5 cm, 206 Pages
Edition: 50
Language: English / Dutch
Year: 2006

Credits & Support: The publication has been made possible through the support of the Design Department of the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands.