A few things that have been of interest to me this week:
- Gabe is at it again with his always interesting Monday Meanderings at Mysterious Outposts. He’s gotten lots of attention from his post about bloggers getting paid – though most of the discussion I’ve seen misses the more interesting aspects of his post, which I felt I addressed in the comments (of course this could be due in part to my own choice in title of the Westeros post). What’s more interesting is that the narcissism of bloggers seems to be overlooking the more interesting post he made yesterday.
- Stephen Hunt of SF Crowsnest starts a SFF social networking site – Hive Mind. I signed up, and right now it looks to have potential, but I think it’s a got a ways to go before it stands out.
- A moderate earthquake shakes LA…it makes me remember fondly when I felt my first earthquake east of LA a few years ago (yes, I’m a weird geologist like that).
- I’m really enjoying the Eruptions Blog and the realization of just how many volcanic eruptions are occurring around the world at any given time. Montserrat had another big one.
EDIT: I totally forgot to mention that Acacia (my review) by David Anthony Durham has been picked up for a movie. I generally don't like crossovers, but congratulations, I'll certainly see it.
I didn't miss his other post - I just haven't gotten around to commenting on it at length :P I also had commented much earlier on SF Diplomat and even earlier than that in the first SF Signal Mind Meld, where I alluded to the subject, so if I left things unsaid, it was more because I had stated similar things months ago ;)
ReplyDeleteI didn't figure you would...hell, I haven't commented on it either. I was hoping that there would be some reaction I could follow...so are, nothing.
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe later tonight, as it'll take some thinking, as it comes close to one of those "personal" areas, to be honest. And speaking of no comments...no comments on my other post from today? ;)
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm slightly miffed that the blogger thing has overshadowed the other post, so I'm glad you found it interesting. Of course, I'm also glad people have been discussing the first issue, so it's sort of a win/win thing, eh?
ReplyDeleteI'm still a bit confused about how social networks in general should work, but so far it's fun finding "friends" (internet acquaintances at least) on HiveMind.
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