The last couple of months, the nice team at 6Apart (gods bless and keep them, and may they finally be visited by the Angel of Cluebat at some stage) have been sending me these little friendly "newsletters" about what's going on in LJ-land. Which would be *great* - if I'd signed up for them in the first place. As it stands, I'm reasonably damn ( Read more... )

6Apart are currently demonstrating if there's a prize for "complete lack of clue demonstrated by a blog service host", they're in the running this year.

Details at this location. The original post where they announce it (which is at lj_biz, rather than news) is over hereNope, they still aren't going to be getting my money. End of this paid account, they ( Read more... )

Business groups launch pro-WorkChoices campaignAs expected, a coalition of business groups are getting together to promote the Howard government's Work Choices regime. This is perfectly understandable, given the man people who obtain the "choices" through this system are the employers. They want the laws kept, highlighting a "danger to the ( Read more... )

I'm currently working my way through David and Leigh Eddings' "Elder Gods" series. I just finished reading the third book of it last night (well, early this morning, to be honest) and I'm not really impressed. The problem being that these books are getting more and more contrived as they carry on ( Read more... )

http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/1382363.html

http://imaginarycircus.livejournal.com/123898.html

http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/159327.html

Oh, and all the comments here: http://news.livejournal.com/102095.html (start at about page three).

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/241428.html?thread=11268884#t11268884I see 6A ( Read more... )

There are days when I realise that my cynicism is somewhat eclipsed by that of the Universe. This is one of them.

US cannot account for 190,000 guns in Iraq: report

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For starters - I'm not going to be getting a GreatestJournal account[1]. I'm not going to be quitting this LJ account. I'm not going to be stomping off in high dudgeon to another site, and playing the whole game all over again ( Read more... )

So, the online interview of Chris Williams of FanLib (abbreviated hereafter as FL) by Professor Henry Jenkins has been and gone. FL haven't answered any questions, and they're still playing the dazed and confused line, trying to convince everyone that the fans on LJ are completely and utterly bonkers, power obsessed, and just too demanding. This ( Read more... )

Well, things are getting interesting in the whole "FanLib" thing. I got involved with a thread over on fanthropology last night. I posted a total of seventeen questions for the person from FL who stated that she was willing to answer questions. Just for the sake of kindness, I'll post the questions below ( Read more... )

Okay, for those who aren't out there in the great wide world of fandom, looking for fanfiction, a quick primer. There is a new website name of "FanLib.com". They are attempting to create a multi-fandom fanfiction archive. Rather along the same lines as The Pit of Voles, only with the stated interest in making money from it. However, there are ( Read more... )