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In which I Instagram the 2006 Worldcon
Originally published at Scott Edelman. Please leave any comments there.
Instagram didn’t launch until 2010-but why should that stop me from Instagramming L.A.con IV, the 2006 Worldcon which took place in Anaheim?
And so … here are seven snapshots of who were were a decade ago.
Bob Silverberg
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My spam finds Connie Willis confusing, thinks the Doc Strange movie was a masterpiece, and is angry
Originally published at Scott Edelman. Please leave any comments there.
When I woke this morning, I found 185 new spam comments intended to go live on my blog which had instead thankfully been caught by my spam folder. That was an unusually large amount of spam to appear over one night.
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Connie Willis causes the most surprising comment I’ve read all day
As soon as it was announced yesterday that Connie Willis had been named the next SFWA Grand Master, the Internet exploded with a wide range of chatter, ranging from “It’s about time!” to “Wow, I suddenly feel very old” to “Already?”
That was to be expected. Science fiction fandom doesn’t speak in one voice on anything.
But what I didn’t expect ( Read more... )
