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selenayToday I shall be mostly bug-fixed, apparently. It's flattering to be Girl Who Knows Stuff and Can Fix It, but I wanna get on with Big Bad Project, darnit!
However, if I keep having trouble with simple operations (such as correctly using BETWEEN in SQL) then I'm probably going to be more of a liability than fix-it girl.
An RL friend asked for some info on LJ because she'd heard about it (well, actually about MySpace but I know nothing about that) and I've written her a nice email lots of lovely links. I may have, um, 'forgotten' to give her the link to this journal though. Can't quite decide whether she'd want to read this stuff or not.
It got me to thinking. When I first started this journal there was lots of fannish commentary, academic thinking about the nature of on-line communities and actual interesting content. Now it's mostly moaning about work. When did I get so boring?
I've also been thinking about newletter communities. More and more seem to be springing up for fandoms and I have to admit that I love them.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_newsletter, who_daily and daily_snitch are often the only way that I'm really able to keep up with fannish stuff. I've been adding to my collection recently with newsletters for Star Wars, NCIS (a fandom that I only browse, really, but keeping hoping for Abby/Kate fic to appear), LotR...there should really be newsletters for every fandom. Anyone know of a Star Trek newsletter? Or Buffy? Or a resource with links to all the current newsletters?
Hmm, I could even set up a page on my site with links to all the newsletters that seem to be around if one doesn't already exist. Now there's a potentially useful concept!
However, if I keep having trouble with simple operations (such as correctly using BETWEEN in SQL) then I'm probably going to be more of a liability than fix-it girl.
An RL friend asked for some info on LJ because she'd heard about it (well, actually about MySpace but I know nothing about that) and I've written her a nice email lots of lovely links. I may have, um, 'forgotten' to give her the link to this journal though. Can't quite decide whether she'd want to read this stuff or not.
It got me to thinking. When I first started this journal there was lots of fannish commentary, academic thinking about the nature of on-line communities and actual interesting content. Now it's mostly moaning about work. When did I get so boring?
I've also been thinking about newletter communities. More and more seem to be springing up for fandoms and I have to admit that I love them.
sga_newsletter, who_daily and daily_snitch are often the only way that I'm really able to keep up with fannish stuff. I've been adding to my collection recently with newsletters for Star Wars, NCIS (a fandom that I only browse, really, but keeping hoping for Abby/Kate fic to appear), LotR...there should really be newsletters for every fandom. Anyone know of a Star Trek newsletter? Or Buffy? Or a resource with links to all the current newsletters?Hmm, I could even set up a page on my site with links to all the newsletters that seem to be around if one doesn't already exist. Now there's a potentially useful concept!
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Date: 2006-09-23 09:08 pm (UTC)I bookmarked a whole load of newsletters a while back. I have a feeling there was a post somewhere with people talking about them, no idea where though. A page with a list of them would be handy. So I thought I'd tell you which ones I had bookmarked. Then I worked my way through the ones they mentioned. And I found a previous google search I had done on the subject. And ended up with rather a lot.
So I just bunged them in an LJ post that only you can see (hopefully): http://paranoidangel42.livejournal.com/128403.html. It should just be a case of cleaning it up and making the newsletters actual links, then a note to metafandom to get people to add others should get a fairly comprehensive list.