{"id":3475,"date":"2009-06-09T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2009-06-09T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:54:26","slug":"tuesday-various-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3475","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Glen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-machine.org\/the-myth-of-perpetual-copyright\/\">the myth of perpetual copyright<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Copyright hawks and lawsuit-happy professional organizations like the MPAA and RIAA have created a mythology of perpetual copyright, and it is destroying our ability to build on our cultural foundations<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Warren Ellis on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=7389\">digital magazines<\/a>:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><em>A digital magazine<\/em> is something I can read on a netbook or, especially, a phone. A digital magazine is something that gracefully shifts down to embrace the equipment I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to view it on. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re setting the technological bar at an immovable altitude that demands I go to a well-equipped laptop or desktop to view it, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a digital magazine at all \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a digital <em>installation<\/em>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fine, But, you know, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bullshit me.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Patrick Neilsen Hayden on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=31633\">writing and editing<\/a>:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">The point is that editors aren&#8217;t in the business of adjudicating what&#8217;s good; we&#8217;re in the business of acquiring and publishing material through particular channels and organizations, mustering the opportunities that actually exist. Of course, every so often in every editor&#8217;s career you get something that seems unsuitable for the magazine, or web site, or anthology, or publishing house that you&#8217;re editing for, but it&#8217;s so outrageously good that you wind up running around with your hair on fire demanding that reality change so that this thing can get published. Sometimes this even works.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I also Stanley Schmidt&#8217;s argument that &#8220;The story I most want to buy is one that I didn&#8217;t even suspect I was interested in until I saw it, and then it won&#8217;t let me go.&#8221; <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville on <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/05\/26\/china-mieville-on-crime-novels\/\">crime novels<\/a>:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Detective fiction is a fiction of dreams. Not only is this no bad thing, it is precisely what makes it so indispensable.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Joe Hill on <a href=\"http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/?p=906\">the <em>Twilight<\/em> series<\/a>:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">The only thing more boring than reading about vampires having sex with other vampires is reading about vampires NOT having sex with other vampires.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I also like when he says, &#8220;My alternative to being a successful writer was being an unsuccessful writer.&#8221; <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen on the myth of perpetual copyright: Copyright hawks and lawsuit-happy professional organizations like the MPAA and RIAA have created a mythology of perpetual copyright, and it is destroying our ability to build on our cultural foundations Warren Ellis on digital magazines: A digital magazine is something I can read on a netbook or, especially, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3475\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}