These days it feels as if people have fled LiveJournal en masse, and I don’t know where they’ve gone. Granted I’ve been missing myself for quite some time-- first because of the endless black hole that was my dissertation, and then it was off to Rome, and then I entered the secondary black hole of job searching. You would think that being ( Read more... )

A fascinating link regarding a great editor.

Crowd-sourced publishing. An interesting idea, though we’ll have to wait and see how it goes.

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Osama bin Laden was killed, and across the USA people celebrated. I’m very glad I wasn’t in the USA; the thought of the people cheering in the streets disgusts me. But I thought that I should clarify, somewhere, why ( Read more... )

As per the excellent apis_cerana:

Originally posted by heeroluva at "Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam is a big FAIL!
So I've been noticing in both my own journal and communities that I haven't been able to see some comments even thought it says there are more comments there than are actually showing up. Instead I'm getting a place ( Read more... )

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( Bach in the D.C. Subway, by David Lee Garrison )

Tell me that you voted, US o' A-ers!

If you didn't vote, what are you waiting for?!

Come on. If I can vote while living in Japan, and now in Scotland, how hard can it be while still in the States?

Dooooo iiiiiiiiitttttt.

I argued in favor of voting in the comments after this entry. It has some typos, alas, which I noted in the comments below ( Read more... )

Megaupload link to Within Temptation's "a Final Dream," as quoted in the previous post.

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Even Through the Summer Storm, by Carol Clark Williamswild geese imagine the moon and ( Read more... )

Why publishers should beware the App store. I think it's my dislike of censorship that has really lead me to dislike recent Apple products. On the further subject of publishing, this is an Umberto Eco essay on the future of the book I found it at a cool website which is trying to compile and translate Eco's writing.

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Huzzah, it's a somewhat coherent article on US-China relations! Somewhat. Equating "the USA" with "the West" is not at all accurate, for one thing. If you mean the USA, say the USA! If you mean "the West," which generally means western European countries + the USA + Canada and Australia (kinda sorta sometimes when American writers remember that ( Read more... )