If you have something to say about Vector, or the BSFA, or sf — or heck, about anything, really — that doesn’t fit on an existing post, stick it here. Or, of course, you could send an email.
If you have something to say about Vector, or the BSFA, or sf — or heck, about anything, really — that doesn’t fit on an existing post, stick it here. Or, of course, you could send an email.
October 11, 2006 at 11:29 pm
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October 12, 2006 at 12:34 am
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Only joking … actually, this strikes me as the ideal time to air an idea I had in the bath the other night. I’m thinking BSFA blog-badges; y’know, little sidebar icon for people’s sites to show they’re part of the crew, link-back to here or the BSFA homepage. Whaddya think? Might drum up some more business, wot?
October 12, 2006 at 10:50 am
The one thing that has struck me about the BSFA since I joined a couple of years ago is it’s lack of presence on the web. This blog is going some way to rectify that. However the main BSFA page is very poor. I would love a focal point for the BSFA that everyone can use.
Has anyone considered using something like the new Google Groups Beta? (http://groups-beta.google.com/). You can have forums, members, pages etc. Seems to give you a lot for not much effort and zero cost. (You can probably do this in Yahoo as well, but last time I used Yahoo Groups I didn’t like it much).
October 12, 2006 at 11:00 am
First, another preface: I don’t run the bsfa, but I can certainly pass ideas up the chain.
Paul: blog badges? I have absolutely no idea how to implement it — or indeed whether there are enough blogging members to make it worthwhile — but it’s an interesting idea. I suppose it’s just a case of creating an image and providing the HTML?
James: web presence is one of the things the bsfa is currently reviewing; somewhat obviously, I personally think an expanded presence would be a good thing. (One of my long-term plans for the Vector website is to start getting content from back-issues online.) I don’t think anyone’s suggested a Google Group, so I’ll pass the idea on.
October 12, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Yeah, that should do it. Make a little graphic square (about 175 pixels each side, or whatever the standard sidebar width is), HTML to link to the homepage. Probably an hour’s work for someone with the *m4d sk1llz* at Photoshop, or whatever those design types use. Google Group could be a good idea for updates and announcements … and maybe we could start a blog ring also. It’s all about the web2.0, baby! ;)
October 12, 2006 at 10:52 pm
You realise that many bsfa members also like to do things in the real world, right? :)
And hey, if the image was 100 x 100, people could use it as a livejournal icon. I certainly can’t think of anything cooler than that.
In other news, I just read “Yellow Card Man” in the December Asimov’s. Damn fine story.
October 16, 2006 at 7:39 pm
I’m not going to dignify this with a full post. But:
*headdesk*
November 15, 2006 at 11:57 am
So I watched the Iain Banks interview last night. The man could clearly talk the hind leg off a donkey, and overall the discussion didn’t feel structured enough to me; a bit too much about the man and a bit too little about the work for my taste, as well. I am also not entirely convinced that Mark Lawson has actually read any of Banks’ sf novels.
On the upside, Heroes was ++awesome. Huzzah for sweeps.
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July 31, 2007 at 12:39 am
I think sexysexygirl is admonishing us all to run out and get copies of the James Tiptree Award Anthologies. Or, at the very least, James Tiptree, Jr: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips’ wonderful biography. At least that’s if I’m using my Captain Crunch/Secret Feminist Cabal decoder ring correctly.
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September 27, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Can’t say I like the turn this thread has taken. We seem to be a bit off the subject.
September 28, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I hope you see this message amidst all the comment spam. Thanks for linking Fantasy Debut. You have inspired me to borrow this idea for an open thread; I hope you don’t mind!
September 28, 2007 at 2:44 pm
If you’d like to link up to another fantasy review blog, mine is http://otter.covblogs.com and I call it Grasping for the Wind.
December 5, 2007 at 1:03 am
What is the Dejа vu? What is this fleeting imprinted in the memory?
P.S. Please administrator vectoreditors.wordpress.com. If the thread is not to be in category этот, I ask you to move my thread to the correct category.
November 27, 2008 at 10:37 am
Mike Mossberg, I know you reading this forum, please contact me, because I can’t find your contact details.
March 7, 2009 at 1:19 am
You should have a mission statement, or some kind of definition of what TC is for. Since you don’t have one, i can’t wave it in your face as evidence that coverage of Failgate 2099 is outside your bailiwick. Curse you!
I don’t know why i’m so exercised about this. Obviously, i hate black people, but it’s also that it seems like diverting any more eyeballs or brain cells to a phenomenon which has already consumed so many of them for absolutely no positive result seems futile.
March 7, 2009 at 10:29 am
Tom, you are commenting on a blog you don’t read about a post we have yet to write, and you’re worried about us using our brain cells on something futile?
March 8, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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March 8, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Liz, it’s this or write the thesis.
I note you have still not provided a mission statement!
March 8, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Also, it wasn’t your brain cells i was worried about: it’s those of the people who will get involved in the torrent of write-only argument in the comments. What’s happened absolutely everywhere else this has been discussed is that both sides have turned up, lined up their cannons, fired off all the same arguments again, and not really tried to understand anything the other side have written. Oh, and got thoroughly derailed by reacting to other people’s reactions, rather than the underlying matter. As a result, everybody goes home with the same amount of knowledge, more anger, and less time to spend doing anything constructive. I may not read this blog, or many others, and may not have been very much affected, but i care deeply about my fellow human beings, and don’t want them to be sucked into that process.
Yes, there are important things to talk about, and do, in regard to the exclusion of non-white people from the SF ecosystem, but i am very, very skeptical that RaceFail ‘09 offers any productive approaches to them.
Hopefully, of course, i’m completely wrong, and your thoughtful coverage of it will deliver racewin. But i’m a pessimist.