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July 2008

Reading Comprehension 101

30 July 2008

I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post Teresa Nielsen Hayden made about another site. Her comment was about the comments on a post at AdPulp being a moderator’s nightmare. Well, in all fairness, the original blog post at Making Light is [...]

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The Tor site is live!

21 July 2008

And it’s at Tor.com.
There are short stories available to read, free, right on the site itself. By John Scalzi and Charles Stross at the moment.
There are blogs, currently including entries written by Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Making Light, Jim Henley, John [...]

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Do you read short fiction?

19 July 2008

This is the interesting question that I mentioned in my previous post about Tor Beta – which I still can’t link to. So here’s the question for you, dear readers. Do you read short fiction? Why or why not? Under what conditions will you read short fiction?
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Scintillating Conversation on the Tor Beta site

18 July 2008

An interesting question came up about reading short fiction – which I’m going to blog about in a separate post – on the Tor Beta site which I can’t link to because it’s a beta and they’ve asked everyone not to. Yes, I know I’m being mean, but hey, what can [...]

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coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?

17 July 2008

coComment is a site that offers the service of tracking your comments through cyberspace on the various blogs you visit and show the replies and continuing conversation after your post. In theory.
Last year, it worked like that. I stopped using it mostly because it was a [...]

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Working on the Design of this Site…

16 July 2008

I seem to work in fits and starts and I have time and brain power. I seem to do that with a lot of things.
So I’m back to working on the design for this site. There were some nitpicky details I wanted to change and cosmetic things [...]

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Quirks or Freak of Nature? You Decide.

10 July 2008

So I’m self-tagging myself (I add that for some extra redundant redundancy ) on a meme I stole from Plaid Earthworm. And here are the rules:
The rules (yes, because I’m still into redundancy)
1. Link to the person who tagged me. [...]

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Top 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels

9 July 2008

This list I got from Fantasy Book Review. Since lists are not copyrightable, I’m duplicating it here.
Same as in the Science Fiction post, green and bold means I’ve read it and green with no bold means I’ve only watched the movie…

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Top 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

8 July 2008

Edited to add: I saw an addendum to Rosemerry’s post over on her blog and learned that this list is part of a published book. I don’t recall reading that on Rosemerry’s blog at the time, but that could just as easily have been my goldfish memory at play as much [...]

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More on Plagiarism in Sri Lanka

7 July 2008

Sometimes, I just wonder about people. Really, I do.
I’ve mentioned in previous posts that plagiarism, copyright violations, and piracy of all kinds is rampant in Sri Lanka. It’s sad, really.
Because we know this, we added comments to the writer’s guidelines for [...]

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