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Story Wars. Reminds me of FanLib in a bad way.
Story Wars (http://www.storywars.net) Story Wars Blog (http://storywarsblog.net/)
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Kindle Worlds = FanLib?
Amazon announces a new program called Kindle Worlds, in which fanfic authors are invited to color within the lines to color within the lines in a tiny number of fandoms and supposedly earn royalties on straight-to-Kindle fanfiction.
See John Scalzi's take on it.I commented at his blog; my hunch is that Amazon will charge authors a fee for every ( Read more... ) -
Life Without FanLib imported from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth
Whew! Export of Life Without FanLib to DreamWidth completed early this morning, on December 30, 2011.
Link to DreamWidth Life Without FanLib comm.It has long worried me that the contents of this community, which document fans' experiences with FanLib, might be lost due to the vagaries of LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
Comments by non-members are now screened
Due to daily spam, comments from non-members are now screened. Anon comments have been screened for a while for the same reason.
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New owner of LOTRFanFiction.com is "super excited."
Esteliel sent me a message about LOTRFanFiction.com being sold. Read about it at her journal ( Read more... ) -
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, of Surveyfail fame, are back
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, of Surveyfail fame, are back. And they have a book out. So Ogas is promoting his evo-bio-psycho fake science here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/billion-wicked-thoughts/201104/why-feminism-is- ( Read more... ) -
partly_bouncy says it's time to quit crying about FanLib.
I recently blocked partly_bouncy -- FanLib apologist, Fan History owner, and all-around bad news -- from this community. Two days later, there was an inept attempt to troll the comm by taiyoukai_nile, a partly_bouncy subscriber and Fan History member.
I then found at a Fan History blog an ungrammatical post by Nile, presumably taiyoukai_nile:
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Disney purchased FanLib in May/June 2008, two months before FanLib's "closure."
Gotta love those public records. The tale of the FanLib trademark tells us bunches ( Read more... ) -
Disney lays off Ideal Bite employees as of December 9th.
From paidcontent.org:
Less than 18 months after acquiring Ideal Bite for $20 million, the Walt Disney Co. is folding the green-living tips company into the Disney Interactive Media Group. Disney spokeswoman Michelle Bergman said it's not being shut down, that DIMG is "evaluating the situation" and has made no staffing decisions yet. But it may not ( Read more... )