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wiliqueen: Take two Excedrin and call me when the dust settles
Whether the FanLib people themselves realize it or not, this venture just plain isn't aimed at the fannish community I know.
- wiliqueen: I have a headache THIS BIG, and it has FanLib written all over it - someone in a comment I read today dubbed it "the Creation Cons of fanfic." Which, in a way, is the same thing. If it takes off, it's going to be as a parallel structure, regarded contemptuously by fandom-at-large as a feeble synthetic substitute -
- furiosity: da me mas gasolina - figure, if it's a rumour or a hoax, there is still no harm in reminding ourselves that there are many aspects of fandom that are absolutely Not Digestible by the general public and may well send members of the aforementioned general public into a frenzied -
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life_wo_fanlib: Workers of the World Unite: An Old School Marxist Analysis of FanLib vs. Fandom - Our self-created system for sharing our stories, imperfect as it might be, seems to be as genuine an expression of what Marx considers wealth (and he's not talking in terms of monetary wealth here but social and intellectual self-realization) as any I've -
- justhuman: Fanlib update - Based on what I've heard before Williams latest response, I thought -
- liz_marcs: The Perfect Storm... - And yet, here I am, staring at what is possibly a true Perfect Storm in the virtual world of fandom culture. It is amazing and terrifying to behold. -
- life_wo_fanlib: Fandom means I get to meta as much as the next person
The Real Communications Divide: Goal-Oriented vs. Network-Based
- fandom_me: Cross-posted to fanficrants
Canon = Fact
Characterization = Interpretation
Interpretation != Canon
- life_wo_fanlib: Chris Williams Gets Closer To The Talent - When Chris Williams, FanLib CEO, responded to the questions posed by fans at Henry Jenkinsâ™s blog, he distanced FanLib from that marketing brochure, claiming it is irrelevant to what FanLib is doing now.//But it is relevant, and Williams says so himself -
- life_wo_fanlib: Taking a moment to say: - I love that thirty/forty years of being cultural critics trained us for this moment. I love that, three seconds from its inception, there were posts everywhere deconstructing it, there were gender critiques, there was extreme parsing of the language of th -
- life_wo_fanlib: This is what I'm about to post in respon - FanLib sees fanfic as a potential value. As seen through the gaze of FanLib, fanfic is something whose proposed worth has not been fully capitalized upon until a tangible transaction, a value exchange, has come about because of it -
- quicksilvereyes: Interview With Chris Williams - I do think FanLib might be able to coexist with fans if they narrow their scope greatly. They don't need to be an all-inclusive multifandom archive. They just don't -
- seperis: sometimes things change - So, hmm. A part of me thinks it's unfair a fic has to carry that weight--not only of canon and of itself, but of its author, of its fandom, of a *lot* of fandoms, of the judgements that came before and after. OTOH, it's fascinating that fannish history *c -
- bottle_of_shine: the fanlib interview - Both those men upset me, and perhaps Jenkins more so because I've been reading all this great stuff about him, how he really cares, and I really didn't expect to read his posts and get the feeling I did. I expected the crap from the Williams guy[...]but I -
- melyanna: I seem to be on a metaphor kick lately, but it's so easy when you're talking about FanLib. - I think the fundamental problem with FanLib's CEO is that he never came out of the bathroom with his skirt in his panties.[...]This is about how to deal with a mistake you made that's really embarrassing. -
- alixtii: Feminism and Proof - We're talking about interpretative lenses[...]A conspiracy of evil robots that look just like humans is no more or less disprovable than "patriarchy" or "liberal democracy," but it doesn't help us to communicate or to live justly in this world -
- angiepen: Audience and Priorities - IMO the intended audience, once FanLib really gets going, is going to be that really huge body of fans who watch the TV shows and movies, and read the books and comics, but haven't yet gotten actively involved in fandom. -
- laguera25: Fandom and Fanlib - Why is it that big business cannot follow the simple rules we were all taught in school? Why are they allowed to take our ideas and claim them as their own? -
- lyore: Why FFN isn't like FanLib: Profit, Risk and Exploitation
The difference that fans are reacting to is, in my mind, the matter of a) intent, and b) appearance, and c) risk.
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oulangi.livejournal.com: Monday, May 28th 2007