Archive for March, 2007
SFWA, Elections, And So On
Thursday, March 29th, 2007And, like a lot of other new/young writers have expressed, there’s some trepidation at the thought of going in and trying to make a difference because there is an impression of entrenched entrenchedness within SFWA that makes the whole prospect daunting.
Social Networking, Pt. 2
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Oh yeah, MySpace sucks on the technical front, but it’s not all bad when it comes to self-promotion, especially for the audio and visual artists. And it helped me promote my sad and lonely short story sale, at least for a while. These days, aside from people I actually know, the majority of the friend requests I get are from scammers with artfully stolen profiles. So there’s that downside, too, of anything that gets that popular.
LiveJournal, despite boasting over 12 million journals and communities created since 1999, seems to have avoided the problems that plague MySpace (which boasts over 160 million people in my extended network). The site is relatively fast, almost always loads crisply, and is a wonder of organization. Plus: threaded conversations.
The one thing that drives me a bit batty about the traditional blog, and blogware like WordPress and Movable Type, is the lack of comment threading. I’m sure there’s things to be said against it, but at the moment I can’t think of any.
Social Networking
Monday, March 5th, 2007MySpace almost irredeemably sucks. And I’m not even talking about the profiles that are almost physically unreadable or the proliferation of text messaging shorthand (“ho r u” “gr8 u”), but the site actually sucks.