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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Hey everyone, I've just added a ton of new SF/F blog links to the Web Sites page in the Resources section. I've also built a SF/F Blog Roll box on the home page sidebar to display the same links. Take a look and let me know what you think. All the new links came from my StumbleUpon favorites. Do you know of any quality SF/F blogs that we should add to the list? I'm always looking for great science fiction web sites. | ||
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Regular Posts: 92 Location: Boston, MA | so many!! actually the one i frequent daily is io9.com. but maybe it's not sf/f enough and that's why you didnt include it .. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | hihik - 2010-12-30 2:35 PM so many!! actually the one i frequent daily is io9.com. but maybe it's not sf/f enough and that's why you didnt include it .. Such an obvious one and I just missed it! Added now. I'm mostly looking for SF/F blogs that focus on written works, specifically novels or short stories, rather than TV or movies or comics etc. Links that tie into WWEnd a bit. There are plenty of sites that cater to those other aspects of genre fiction. In this case, io9 covers a lot of ground including books so I'm happy to add it to the list. Thanks for the reminder. | ||
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Regular Posts: 92 Location: Boston, MA | again - so many!! would be interesting to know which ones do you guys actually check out often? as i mentioned earlier my blog of choice is io9. looking for more reasons not to get any work done at the office .. :P | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | hihik - 2011-01-06 1:20 PM again - so many!! would be interesting to know which ones do you guys actually check out often? as i mentioned earlier my blog of choice is io9. looking for more reasons not to get any work done at the office .. :P I follow a couple dozen or so of these blogs via RSS/Google Reader. There are just too many to try to web to them. What I do is subscribe to the ones that I think have potential and I check out the posts that come in for a couple weeks or so to see if they're worth keeping up with. I follow a lot of them just to keep up with what's going on for WWEnd. Here are a dozen of the ones that I'm following now that I really like - in no particular order:
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Regular Posts: 92 Location: Boston, MA | i also have a few blogs on my g-reader but i love to read the user comments on io9 so i do open the website. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | hihik - 2011-01-12 3:21 PM i also have a few blogs on my g-reader but i love to read the user comments on io9 so i do open the website. I just use Google Reader to put all the articles together in one spot so I can click the ones that look interesting. I rarely read them on Reader unless they're really short. Really just a filter. | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | these links are dead: http://www.bushleaguecritic.com/ https://dazedrambling.wordpress.com/ http://news.diversebooks.com/ http://www.galaxyezine.com/ http://scifights.com/ http://blog.42scifi-fantasy.com/ https://strangetelemetry.wordpress.com/ this one has moved: http://blogorob.blogspot.be/ to: http://robbedford.blogspot.be/ this one is private: https://jawasreadtoo.wordpress.com/ | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | The links below didn't have any updates for (more than) a year, explicitly state they stopped updating, or otherwise seem to have stopped updated. Maybe it would be a good idea to break the blog list down in 2, and put these into a different category? It would make the bloglist a bit easier to use. http://www.bigdumbobject.co.uk/ http://sfwinners.blogspot.be/ (blogging the hugo winners) http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/ https://bookmonkeyscribbles.wordpress.com/ http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/ http://www.fantasy-matters.com/ https://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/ https://futurewired.wordpress.com/ http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/ https://alienterritory.wordpress.com/ (headed for alien...) http://hn-review.blogspot.be/ (hugo+nebula SF review project) http://www.irosf.com/ http://andscifi.com/ (life, the universe & scifi) http://sffbooksonmars.blogspot.be/ (marooned...) http://scifimindvoyages.blogspot.be/ http://blog.omphalosbookreviews.com/ https://onapalestar.wordpress.com/ http://paeanprogress.blogspot.be/ http://posthumanblues.blogspot.be/ http://pulparchive.com/me/eye.html (I think it's not updated anymore, since it's in japanese) http://pulpaweek.blogspot.be/ http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.be/ (not updated since october 2014) http://www.sfawardswatch.com/ http://www.scifan.com/ http://www.scifi.darkroastedblend.com/ http://scifi.uk.com/ http://www.scifiguy.ca/ http://www.sfandfantasymasterworks.co.uk/ http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/ https://solarbridge.wordpress.com/ http://www.johnxero.com/spacetimeindustries/ http://www.speculativefictionjunkie.com/ (no updates since september 2014) http://yetistomper.blogspot.be/ (stomping on yeti) https://sophyanempire.wordpress.com/ (the archeologists guide..., no updates since september 2014) https://theclockworkpen.wordpress.com/ http://top-science-fiction-novels.com/ http://visionsofparadise.blogspot.be/ http://www.walkerofworlds.com/ this one merged: http://sffportal.net/ with: https://worldsf.wordpress.com but that latter isn't updated anymore either This one seems out of place, as it directs to an author page: Bowing to the future > http://www.louanders.com/ More or less the same for this: filmcritic.com > http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/ | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | Now that I'm on it, these author blog links are dead too: Bruce Sterling Fiona Avery Gwyneth Jones Jason Stoddard Kay Kenyon Louise Marley Matthew Jarpe Johh Meaney's has moved to: www.johnmeaney.com Paul Cornell has moved to: http://www.paulcornell.com Sean Williams has moved to: www.seanwilliams.com + maybe add these? Patrick Rothfuss: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com Daniel Abraham, James S.A. Correy & Ty Frank at: www.danielabraham.com | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1057 | Ann Leckie http://www.annleckie.com/blog Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://kriswrites.com/blog Rachel Bach (Rachel Aaron) http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com Seanan McGuire (also Mira Grant) http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com Kameron Hurley http://www.kameronhurley.com/blog Aliette de Bodard http://aliettedebodard.com/blog Rachel Swirsky http://rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com Nicola Griffith http://asknicola.blogspot.com N K Jemisin http://nkjemisin.com Genevieve Valentine http://www.genevievevalentine.com Mary Robinette Kowal http://maryrobinettekowal.com/category/journal Sofia Samatar http://sofiasamatar.blogspot.com Lauren Beukes http://laurenbeukes.com/blog Nalo Hopkinson http://nalohopkinson.com/blog/nalohop Brandon Sanderson http://brandonsanderson.com Chuck Wendig http://terribleminds.com Cory Doctorow http://craphound.com Steven Brust http://dreamcafe.com Daniel Abraham (1/2 of James S A Corey) http://www.danielabraham.com Edited by illegible_scribble 2016-01-28 8:05 PM | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Well, I guess it's obvious that I'm not able to make the time to edit the websites page. There are just too many other daily maintenance tasks and higher priority projects. But, in case ya'll want to do the cleanup and new additions, I've copied the data table into a Google Sheet where you can have at it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KKI-XT3cnPcnUvt4fG9htf3_cS6CtuZ9URbbYHVcaX4/edit?usp=sharing It's a really basic table. RN_Type_ID = 1 for general links and = 2 for author links (see sheet 2). The Title is the link text that shows on the page and the URL is self evident. The DateAdded column I left in there in case you wanted to sort by date to see the really old links which likely need the most revision. Don't bother filling that one in if you add new links. It'll all go into the DB with the same date when I copy the changes from the updated sheet into the DB. Ya'll let me know if you have any questions. | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | (edit)<br /> Edited by bleebs 2016-02-01 11:19 AM | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | I've added all of the above + Elizabeth Bear's blog. I also deleted all the dead links, except for keepingthedoor.com, which might be temporarily down. What to do with the non-active/abandoned blogs? Deleting them seems harsh? Is coding a category for non-active/abandoned blogs a lot of work? If not, I'll gladly add a "3" in the spreadsheet to all the ones I listed above. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1057 | hyperlinked link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KKI-XT3cnPcnUvt4fG9htf3_cS6CtuZ9URbbYHVcaX4/edit?usp=sharing
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Well, that was fast! Thanks for managing those. I'll get your updated list copied over to the DB tomorrow if time permits. I really appreciate the effort because there are few things more irritating when you're surfing than to run into dead links. I consider the defunct sites as dead links so I'd rather they come off the list too. As for categories I was talking to whargoul about creating some new ones so we can sort the list by type of site: official author site, author blog, fan site, general, twitter, Facebook etc. It would make the list easier to navigate to have headings. Any thoughts on that? | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1057 | Administrator - 2016-02-02 3:27 PM As for categories I was talking to whargoul about creating some new ones so we can sort the list by type of site: official author site, author blog, fan site, general, twitter, Facebook etc. It would make the list easier to navigate to have headings. Any thoughts on that? Is it still in the works to make "Links" for the Author records something we add, rather than scraped from the Internet? I'd like to see: Official Website: http://www.authorsite.com You would then be able to scrape all of these for a Links page(s), as you do for the WWEnd Member Web Sites. Edited by illegible_scribble 2016-02-02 12:50 AM | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | I've removed all the defunct sites listed above as well, except for a few that started reposting. Well, not all, since someone else had already removed some. I'll go through what's left and see if there are any new defunct ones... | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | I've went through all the remaining general links and removed a few more. The jury is still out on these: - Coolvibe (only visual art, no new comment since October '15) - DivineNanny (no SFF related content for more than a year) - Filmcritic on Filmsite.org (it's not a SF/F/H site) - Grasping For the Wind (only 2 posts in 2015, latest in June '15) - Yeti Stomper (no new post for 2 years, but a test post last month) If nobody objects, also remove those? I'll go through the author sites later tonight. | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | Done. Removed a few. Jury is still out on: - Ian McDonald: might be updated (since he states he hardly ever blogs), but unlikely - Frederik Pohl: will never be updated again since he died, but is maybe nice as a testament? | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | I added a bunch of blogs like Chaos Horizon, From Couch To Moon, Bibliosanctum, Tenacious Reader, Space & Sorcery, Who's dreaming Who, My Books My Life My..., SCy-Fy, Examined Worlds, ... | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1057 | I've added a bunch of author blogs and review blogs, too. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 454 | Administrator - 2016-02-01 8:27 PM I'll get your updated list copied over to the DB tomorrow if time permits. Could you please hold off for a couple of days? I've just now noticed this and would like to add more sites, but it'll take me a day or so. Thanks!! Also, could you please edit the SF Mistressworks page to incorporate a link to the official SF Mistressworks blog. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Engelbrecht - 2016-02-02 4:33 PM Administrator - 2016-02-01 8:27 PM I'll get your updated list copied over to the DB tomorrow if time permits. Could you please hold off for a couple of days? I've just now noticed this and would like to add more sites, but it'll take me a day or so. Thanks!! Also, could you please edit the SF Mistressworks page to incorporate a link to the official SF Mistressworks blog. I'll hold off until y'all are ready. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | illegible_scribble - 2016-02-02 12:28 AM Administrator - 2016-02-02 3:27 PM As for categories I was talking to whargoul about creating some new ones so we can sort the list by type of site: official author site, author blog, fan site, general, twitter, Facebook etc. It would make the list easier to navigate to have headings. Any thoughts on that? Is it still in the works to make "Links" for the Author records something we add, rather than scraped from the Internet? I'd like to see: Official Website: http://www.authorsite.com You would then be able to scrape all of these for a Links page(s), as you do for the WWEnd Member Web Sites. Use sheet 2 in the doc to add whatever categories you want and just number the links to match the new categories. I've talked to whargoul and he's cool with as many cats as you think we'll need to organize things properly.
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