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2+title = "May 2023"
3+date = "2023-05-01"
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5+[featured-1]
6+title = "The Mars Review of Books"
7+description = "The Mars Review of Books is a magazine in print and on Urbit. The third issue is now available in print and on online."
8+image="https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/spotlight/mrb3-thumb.png"
9+content = """
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11+The *Mars Review of Books*, a magazine in print and on Urbit, recently put out its third issue — with pieces from Sean Thor Conroe, Marc Hochstein, Miles Routledge, Peter Nimitz and more. And now for the first time, the *MRB* is selling digital and print subscriptions exclusively through Urbit.
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15+Using payment rails from [Studio](http://localhost:3000/applications/~tirrel/studio) by [Tirrel](https://tirrel.io/), you can now plug in your credit card and subscribe directly to content hosted on an Urbit owned and operated by the people producing the content (in this case, the ~bidbel star).
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17+Visit marsreview.org to subscribe to the magazine, buy a print copy of Issue 3, or read selected unpaywalled pieces online.
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20+"""
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22+[featured-2]
23+title = "Portal"
24+description = "Find and curate Urbit apps, groups, and media from fellow Urbit users"
25+image="https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/applications/portal.svg"
26+content = """
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28+Portal is a lot like this ecosystem section of the Urbit website, except *on Urbit*. It’s a great place to find Urbit apps, Urbit groups, and recent media about your favorite Urbit developers and community members.
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32+Because Portal is on Urbit, networking among peers is built in. Anyone using Portal can curate their own list of apps and groups, and display that to other Portal users. It’s a great proof of concept for the way decentralized curation can work, a lot of fun to use, and the perfect place to start for anyone trying out Urbit for the first time.
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34+You’ll have to check it out on Urbit at ~worpet-bildet/portal
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36+"""
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38+[featured-3]
39+title = "%blog"
40+description = "Host a blog on your urbit with this application from ~dachus-tiprel."
41+image="https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/spotlight/blog-thumb.png"
42+content = """
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44+Blog is just what it sounds like. A new tool from Uqbar, the app lets anyone on Urbit spin up and customize a blog that displays to the net at an auto-generated URL. Nothing could be breezier. Plus it’s got payments through Uqbar and group-blogging settings on the roadmap. Find out more about it on its [creator's blog](https://dachus-tiprel.tlon.network/blog/introducing-blog).
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48+Download it at ~hanrut-sillet-dachus-tiprel/blog and let the world know what’s on your mind. Bonus feature: a simple command allows you to automatically publish the URL of your latest blog entry to the notorious [Rumors](applications/~paldev/rumors) app.
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