Early morning ear-burning

[demiurgent]

Something I found in my early morning blog glancing.

"Can I share information about new developments in Science Fiction?" I asked.

"Yes! Yes!" he enthused. "This you can do, and more!"

"Can I discuss Science Fiction Fandom, conventions, and other fannish activity?" I asked.

"Yes! Yes! Discuss them like the mighty wind, you can!" he cried, sweeping the flaming staff through the air in a great arc.

"Can I pull a new word out of my ass and get it into Wikipedia?" I asked.

"No, so sorry," he said, "you cannot. But you can pull other things out of your ass!"

Cuuuuuuute.

Anyway. If this means more regular updating of SFBlog, I'm all for it. Though I seriously wonder why they're not using the changing of the guard to implement per-entry comments. It seems like they're shooting for a community rather than simply being a news and information site, and community building begins with the capacity to participate and discuss.

On the other hand, the drama implicit in something like Science Fiction Fandom might lead to frightening consequence. (Though I doubt it would be significantly more intense than, say, Webcomics fandom.)

Comments

[wednesday]

Well, I've bounced to Ray about it. Don't know, really. I will say that it's a pain in the ass with a stock Blogger site.

[(Anonymous)]

Cuuuuuuute. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websnark)

Heh. Actually, I was thinking of another word that starts with "Web." (http://www.dangerblanket.com/index.php/?p=10)

Anyway. If this means more regular updating of SFBlog, I'm all for it.

Me, too — which is why I campaigned for the position on a platform of "There's a very real chance that things might not get worse!"

Though I seriously wonder why they're not using the changing of the guard to implement per-entry comments. It seems like they're shooting for a community rather than simply being a news and information site, and community building begins with the capacity to participate and discuss.

Comments have been high on my list of Things to Consider for quite some time now, but I'm going to Dragon*Con in two days, where my time, attention span, and access to my own computer and accounts will be quite... challenged; so I didn't want to do anything too dramatic right now. Once I'm back, and settled in, and past the "Oooh, what does this shiny, shiny button do?" stage, I'll start thinking for real about larger changes.

On the other hand, the drama implicit in something like Science Fiction Fandom might lead to frightening consequence. (Though I doubt it would be significantly more intense than, say, Webcomics fandom.)

Heh. Yeah. Just keep thinking that. :-)


- Ray R.

Makin' up words

[akhenaten.livejournal.com]

Then again, there's always Jeffrey Rowland's Webcest (http://wigu.com/overcompensating/2005/08/webcest.html) debacle (http://wigu.com/overcompensating/2005/08/absinthe-party-at-fly-honey-warehouse.html). Poor Jeffrey Rowland.

Re: Makin' up words

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

wikipedia will come to regret that decision soon enough, webcest will be considered part of the vernacular soon enough, all cancelling it did was make it stronger

[dirkdada.livejournal.com]

On an unrelated note, the color of television tuned to a dead camel... nice Neuromancer pun.

ha!

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

"White has not to date dispensed biscuits."

I love this wording.

White! Dispense some damn biscuits!

(Or, perhaps, some tasty tasty single malt? Pims? Smarties? The UK sort, of course, not the US version.)

Kelly J.

Re: ha!

[wednesday]

See, if I did that, White would simply be latching on to her partner's lexicon.

(I once knew a guy who, in a fit of pique over my decision to read up on a political cause that someone I was seeing at the time supported, declared that he felt it would be beneath me to "swallow a man's bibliography." A week or so later, I went out, bought my first dildo, and named it Bibliography. God only knows what kind of toy I'd have to buy in order to latch onto someone's lexicon.)

Re: ha!

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

It would make linguistics more interesting, certainly.