Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category
[META] What blogs do you read?
Discuss in the comments.
[META] Feedback time!
It’s time for me to ask my readers what they want to see more of at A Bit more Detail this year. Photos? Links, annotated and otherwise? Extended format content?
Discuss.
[META] Blogroll Expansion
C.J. Cherryh’s blog Wave Without A Shore is now on the blogroll.
Cherryh is one of my favourite science fiction writers, an authors whose best works–Cyteen, say, or Downbelow Station–explores things like species identity and economic imperatives and the nature of mind at times when technologies and other circumstances make these concepts disturbingly blurred. Our time, no?
[FORUM] Is it worth writing if it’s only preaching to the converted?
This could as well be titled as a [META] post, too; it’s tagged as such, anyway.
Many of you may have noticed that my posting frequency, particularly text posts, has dropped off of late. It’s because I’ve come to a crisis: if people are confirmed in their political beliefs (by and large), making political commentary or criticisms largely irrelevant, is there any point in writing said texts apart from preaching to the converted?
I’m not going to abandon writing, here and elsewhere, fear not. I’d just be writing things that don’t deal with politics.
What should I do? I solicit suggestions and criticisms of all kinds.
[META] “Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS”
My fellow LiveJournal blogger John Reiher is to be thanked for pointing me to the below, originally posted by Livejournal’s deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS.
For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.
As I said last time, while it’s frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:
“LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow.”
So while I know many are considering the move over to Dreamwidth and other such sites, supporting LJ is a way we can help support those who use it for more than a writing/roleplaying/social venue.
Also, as a FYI, LJ is giving paid users effected by the outage two weeks of paid time as compensation.
(My thoughts later.)
