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The Stargate panels were a big helping of awesome with a cherry on top (the cherry being the shiny Stargate Worlds t-shirt we got. Totally worth missing my copyright seminar over. Richard Dean Anderson is funny as hell. And the Atlantis s5 trailer looked *really* promising!

That is all. (For now)

Oh, oh, fandom. Can't type very well on this keyboard but here's my 2 cents on those things that're making the rounds right now (in bullet point format):
-review != concrit.
-re. partly_bouncy: Oh man, you have no idea how hard it's been not to comment, and if I hadn't been at a clunky hostel keyboard that day, I would've written a lengthy rant, because she's crossed the line from merely obnoxious to vicious and destructive. But I have a feeling that plenty of others have posted on that by now.
-re. fanlib: *points and laughs*

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Glad you're enjoying yourself! ::is envious::

This is a great con, really, and there's something for everone. I'm normally not the con-going type, the only other one I'd be interested in attending would be Writer Con. But comic con has the advantage that you can mix business with fun in a happy symbiosis.

Man, I wish I was there. I've never given a Con I'm not attending so much thought. Have a great time. :)

See above reply to Rheanna... this one's really the Con I'm most interested in.

Hey, you could win an action figure at the Stargate booth. But since I have no idea what to do with one of those, I didn't take part. But I much cherish the Stargate tshirt I got at the panel.

I'd missed the FanLib implosion.

Possibly worse (more embarrassing for them) is the incredibly public pratfall of the new search engine "Cuil" (what fuckin' idiots thought up a name you need a pronunciation guide for?) royally sucking after big talk about taking on google.

BTW, hope you had fun at SDCC.
One of these years I'd like to go.

What's up with 'partly-bouncy'? Where's the stink?
I found the LJ and saw a bunch of possibly pretentious/faux meta, but didn't obviously spot the fire.

I did find the articles blowing sunshine wrt the prospects of FanLib to be amusing -- nice traffic charts which totally ommitted FFN form the mix.

I had much fun! Barely got to look at comic books, there was so much to be seen.

partly_bouncy... oh, long story. I was seriously tempted to post on the debacle, but, hey, comic con. Plus, typing of them American keyboards is still somewhat of a pain, my train of thought keeps getting interrupted because the characters aren't at the right place. Anyway, this (http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/521028.html) post by Liviapenn has the scoop... nice bit of investigative journalism. :) For more, check out

metafandom, there's plenty more.

nice traffic charts which totally ommitted FFN form the mix.

snort. Every "article" by her I've read was like that... completely biased and badly composed. She's the worst journalist in the history of journalism. Probably why she decided to go into the business of selling out fandom to make a living.

(what fuckin' idiots thought up a name you need a pronunciation guide for?)

No kidding. I actually haven't even heard of them.

I went to FanHistory and found myself in the Wik, scraped by her bot from FFN.

I wanted to edit my blank Bio to add "Kiss my ass!" but that would have required registering :)

However, I'm leery of some of the "selling out/exploiting fans" rhetoric that borders on the knee-jerk.

I'm not anti-business, far from it.

I have no problem with people making money -- they just need to be up front about it, and deliver some sort of value in return, something more than just a warm fuzzy, while they hope to laugh all the way to the bank.
There needs to be a true mutual benefit, not a fraudulent, parasitic one way street.

She does seem to fall in the latter category ;)

She was probably spouting flattering things about FanLibs prospects because she wanted to look like a player in that space herself.

> I wanted to edit my blank Bio to add "Kiss my ass!" but that would have required registering :)

'sides, even legitimate edits routinely got users banned.

>However, I'm leery of some of the "selling out/exploiting fans" rhetoric that borders on the knee-jerk.

It's not knee-jerk, not from where I'm standing. Thing is, this didn't start just now, this has been a long time coming and people have been steaming quietly until now. And the information is very throughly gathered, leaving just this conclusion.

>There needs to be a true mutual benefit, not a fraudulent, parasitic one way street.
She does seem to fall in the latter category ;)

Exaclty. She's a destructive influence, instead of contributing to the community. Parasite, that nails it.

Few people will envy Xing any money he's making running ffn; he's doing a hellu job and providing a valuable product. More importantly, he didn't start out to make a profitable site, that's just the way it grew.

Anyway, gotta go to bed, early bus to catch...

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