linkspam should have flossed more
Watch this time-lapsed video of the righting of the shipwrecked cruise ship in Italy.
io9 has an excerpt about the making of Time Bandits. I had no idea it was so dramatic!
As many of you know, and others will come to learn, daughters in this society are on the hook for parental care.
Marked for later:
The dark side of Peter Pan.
The origins of the hashtag.
Eleanor Arnason has a regular column at Strange Horizons. Odd that I didn't know that.
More on the NSA.
It's funny because it's true. SIGH.
This is fascinating and depressing all together.
I need to find time to watch this, but it's Allison Janney, so I will.
The Big Picture covers the flooding in Colorado.
Martha Wells' new Star Wars novel, Razor's Edge, comes out Monday, and the publishers have commissioned a truly stunning piece of artwork for it. Can't wait to read it!
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With regards to the ongoing debate about authors participating in conversations about their work:
If you walked into a room at a party and found people talking about you, you would not be surprised if they (a) felt awkward; and (b) changed the subject. Your presence in the conversation necessarily has an effect on the conversation, because that's a basic tenet of social discourse, and we (most of us) are trained not to be rude or unkind to people's faces.
How is this different on-line? If I'm having a critical conversation in my LJ about, say, Raymond Feist's novels, having Mr. Feist show up in the conversation is going to change what I say and how I say it, and maybe will stop us talking all together. (Note: it's been about 20 years since I read anything by Mr. Feist, and I have no opinion on him one way or another.) Even setting aside issues of gender, race, and social capital, common standards of human interaction are going to redirect the conversation.
That said, apparently some people out there don't seem to get this, or maybe they do--because they would rather the conversation stop than that it continue in a direction they don't like.
If you don't think that that's a problem, well, that's your prerogative.
As for the people sending rape threats to
renay for daring to suggest that authors should be cautious about jumping into fannish conversations--well, you are beyond the bounds of any social control, evidently.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
io9 has an excerpt about the making of Time Bandits. I had no idea it was so dramatic!
As many of you know, and others will come to learn, daughters in this society are on the hook for parental care.
Marked for later:
The dark side of Peter Pan.
The origins of the hashtag.
Eleanor Arnason has a regular column at Strange Horizons. Odd that I didn't know that.
More on the NSA.
It's funny because it's true. SIGH.
This is fascinating and depressing all together.
I need to find time to watch this, but it's Allison Janney, so I will.
The Big Picture covers the flooding in Colorado.
Martha Wells' new Star Wars novel, Razor's Edge, comes out Monday, and the publishers have commissioned a truly stunning piece of artwork for it. Can't wait to read it!
*
With regards to the ongoing debate about authors participating in conversations about their work:
If you walked into a room at a party and found people talking about you, you would not be surprised if they (a) felt awkward; and (b) changed the subject. Your presence in the conversation necessarily has an effect on the conversation, because that's a basic tenet of social discourse, and we (most of us) are trained not to be rude or unkind to people's faces.
How is this different on-line? If I'm having a critical conversation in my LJ about, say, Raymond Feist's novels, having Mr. Feist show up in the conversation is going to change what I say and how I say it, and maybe will stop us talking all together. (Note: it's been about 20 years since I read anything by Mr. Feist, and I have no opinion on him one way or another.) Even setting aside issues of gender, race, and social capital, common standards of human interaction are going to redirect the conversation.
That said, apparently some people out there don't seem to get this, or maybe they do--because they would rather the conversation stop than that it continue in a direction they don't like.
If you don't think that that's a problem, well, that's your prerogative.
As for the people sending rape threats to
renay for daring to suggest that authors should be cautious about jumping into fannish conversations--well, you are beyond the bounds of any social control, evidently.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.