Amazon just bought Goodreads. I don't use Goodreads (and I try to avoid Amazon*), but I know people who do. For the retailer and publisher of books -- and monopoly wannabe -- to acquire a social/discussion site means that Goodreads is about to become commercially biased where it wasn't before. Implications abound. Oh, and this also means that ( Read more... )

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My personal Friday theme was WisCon 101, because I spent a lot of time thinking and talking about what you might want to know should you attend WisCon.

First WisCon dinnersAt the dinner break, I joined the exceedingly well organized and large project that was the collective First WisCon dinner expeditions. I say large because, while in the past it ( Read more... )

• Every synapse is sacred from one of my favorite webcomics, Indexed (Venn diagrams on index cards).
• Mary Anne Mohanraj and Jed Hartman have posted an online guide to critiquing fiction. The guide is specifically geared to Clarion-style workshops, but I think it makes some excellent points for considering another person's fiction.
• Mary Anne Mohanraj ( Read more... )

( A poll! A poll! )

It occurs to me that, while I know a little about a lot of things, and I've been a feminist for almost my entire life, I could use some recommendations on things to bring me up to speed on stuff like, yanno, feminist theory and all. The WisCon/Elizabeth Moon issues have brought this home to me again and in a concrete way ( Read more... )

Has any volunteer-run SF/F convention every disinvited a Guest of Honor (GoH)? and if yes, then why ( Read more... )