Note: Once again with the hand-coding, since LJ is still eating our autoformatted posts. And once again, apologies for the lack of tags in this edition.

General Fandom Meta

hesychasm - 2007-05-22: hesychasm: keeping myself honest - "panisdead did some commentary on her stories in order to look specifically at how she presented, consciously or unconsciously, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. [...] I don't generally write to make some kind of point about these issues, but certainly"

miss_direct - 2007-05-22: miss_direct: Fandom census - "I do think that my tendency to write primarily from the POV of white characters could use some thought. A big part of the equation is that, when writing fanfiction, we're playing with the tools in someone else's toolbox."

asim - 2007-05-22: asim: Marvel Comics has Lost It's Damn Mind - "Here's a hint as to Why Marvel Fails At Life -- and no, it's not about a statue (not yet...)"

jadelennox - 2007-05-25: jadelennox: Write What You Don't Know - "The pace of a story is moving along just fine, and I'm involved in the character's life, and then suddenly one character starts talking about a particular martial art, or a particular craft, or a form of gardening, and with a resounding CRASH I fall out"

quicksilvereyes - 2007-05-24: quicksilvereyes: Fans and the Intellectual Property Protection Act o - "This bill proposes that copyright infringement be made into a criminal act that could sometimes earn you a life sentence in prison. Prison!"

Fanlib - The Continuing Saga

lyore - 2007-05-24: lyore: Why FFN isn't like FanLib: Profit, Risk and Exploitation - "I came across a couple of people honestly enquiring how what FanLib was doing was any different to FFN, giving that both are funded by advertisements. ... The difference that fans are reacting to is, in my mind, the matter of a) intent, and b) appearance, and c) risk."

sarka - 2007-05-24: sarka: Better to give - on the subject of fandom economics. - "And the gift economy made possible by the internet doesn't just extend to fanworks. When was the last time you looked something up on Wikipedia? Browsed something like TripAdvisor recommendations to find a hotel? Watched a video on YouTube? How many people use Linux on their computers?
. . . This is, in fact, where things start to get interesting - when the gift economy and the things produced within start competing with the options provided by the market economy."

melyanna - 2007-05-25: melyanna: I may be late to the game, but I'm still not happy. - "So I have a series of questions I would like to ask of the FanLib people. . . . I have divided these questions into categories to make it easier."