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Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 12:45 am
acari: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
duskpeterson: Daily life: Slashers rule OK - Lesson: Do not tangle with slashers. We rule the literary blogosphere. -
- Richard Eoin Nash - The Blog: Amazonfail: A straight white male publisher on glitches and ham-fisted errors - The onus is on us, as Tim Wise has taught so well on the topic of white privilege. We cannot be given the benefit of the doubt, because it is always us who get the benefit of the doubt in our society, and if we are to take the pink and lavender dollars, and if we are to say, you don't need A Different Light, or Oscar Wilde Bookstore, we'll hook you up just fine, then we can never let this happen. -
- Adventures in Ethics and Science: Some thoughts on #Amazonfail. - Amazon does not own its customers. Consumers are entitled to view Amazon's deranking of books as appalling. They are entitled to share information about Amazon's behavior with other customers, entitled to voice their anger to Amazon, and entitled to organize efforts to shift business from Amazon to vendors with less appalling behavior. -
- The lessons of Amazonfail | Humans At Work - Don't stonewall, don't patronize, and don't assume you have automatic credibility. Amazon is perceived right now as everything from deeply clueless to desperately stonewalling to deliberately deceptive. And of all the errors you can make as a manager, this is the worst - to communicate in a way that distances people even further. -
lim: Sukat, his eyes uncovered! - So when I'm vidding I'm after realising our symbolic language, the one we (sometimes unconsciously) hold in common, that's made up from canon, from fanfic, from our cultural commons. That's why it's a visual story and not a fanfic or an essay. And it's not just visual, it's musical too; to me, expressively, instinctively, vidding is most like dancing. -
- Amazon Using Category MetaData to Filter Rankings | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary - I looked up the category meta data provided by the publisher to Amazon. I looked up over 40 books that had been deranked and filtered out of search engines. It appears that all the content that was filtered out had either "gay", "lesbian", "transgender", "erotic" or "sex" metadata categories. -
damned_colonial: Round-up of potential causes of amazonfail - I'm collecting some links regarding potential causes for the event known as "amazonfail"; as a research tool for myself, re: how not to do it, traps to avoid, etc. -
- Femininsting: Amazon Rep: This was not a "glitch"; - Last night, after finding out about the Amazon craziness, I immediately called my editor, Brooke Warner, over at Seal Press. (Especially because Full Frontal Feminism and Yes Means Yes were two of the books affected.)//She spoke to their Amazon rep today, and he told her it was definitely not a glitch. -
Tue, Apr. 14th, 2009, 11:49 pm
damned_colonial
I thought metafandom linked to posts on LJ only (profile on LJ says: "This community is for linking to interesting discussions in fandom, any fandom, on LiveJournal.") I realised when you started up on DW and I started looking into it, that you also link to LJ-like sites with talkative fannish populations (IJ, DW, etc). But now looking at today's links, I see that more than half of them aren't LJ-ish posts at all, but are blog posts, and not primarily from what I'd consider fannish blogs (a publishing consultant, a science blog, a blog about managing people, and a feminist blog.)
So, I'm wondering what the boundaries are around "fandom" and "livejournal" when it comes to MF's scope?
Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 04:21 am
oula
There isn't really an official clarification - and since there are seven of us, you could probably get seven different answers to that question. Here's mine: We've done the occasional Off-clone/fork linking before (racefail IIRC), and it is something we've discussed for a while, but had reservations about for several reasons. One we were worried about creating more work, two worried we'd break our automated delicious consolidator, and other worries I can't remember right now. Then two things happened at once, testing the delicious automation here of DW, and amazonfail. Whether it sticks or not probably depends on whether it becomes a hassle. I don't mind off-clone/fork links. I think there's a lot of great meta out there.
Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 05:58 am
damned_colonial
For what it's worth, I'd rather it *didn't* stick. It's not like there's a shortage of fandom meta on LJ-like sites, and from my POV, amazonfail was only tangentially fannish. Links talking about how some of the affected authors = fannish, but not most of the discussion (including my post). But that's just my own opinion, and probably a minority one at that, so feel free to disregard.
Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 07:05 am
oula