Fandom feeds on the AO3!  Great rejoicing! Helloooo, Revenge and Alphas. Also, subscriptions to individual works for WIPs!

Poison pen review by Evgeny Morozov of a book on privacy. Sample: “Had Jarvis written his book as self-parody—as a cunning attack on the narrow-mindedness of new media academics who trade in pronouncements so pompous, ahistorical, and vacuous that even the nastiest of post-modernists appear lucid and sensible in comparison—it would have been a remarkable accomplishment. But alas, he is serious. This is a book that should have stayed a tweet.” Also: “This is how Sarah Palin would read Habermas if she could read Habermas.” Good times!

( Life after economic collapse, psychopathy and reality, and fixing copyright )

Oh, The Event. It’s so cute how you use the right names for DC locations and yet show us a Metro and a city that are obviously not the stated locations.

( Native Gothic, Incognegro, and Pink Pirates )

It seems somehow unfair that my Yuletide pinch hit is practically writing itself when my original assignment was taffy-slow. Time pressure is a strange thing.

( Sedaris, needlework technology, music and copyright law, Churchill, the racial wealth divide, books we loved as girls, and evolution  )

My version of nesting: trying to clear the backlog.

( marketing, copyright, comic books, pop culture )

Did anybody else know that Google is planning to host video from anyone who wants to send it in? Not a lot of help to vidders, but still a pretty cool expansion. They're accepting submissions now, but you can't yet browse. I'm researching what Google's up to these days as part of my latest project, on libraries and universities in the new copyright regime, and I'm tremendously impressed by all Google's aspirations. Maybe I should worry more; Google wants to be Microsoft, and absolute power is dangerous, and all that. But -- free video hosting!

Also, I plan to return to the (ir)regularly scheduled posting shortly -- I guess the past 24 hours have just been nervous ones, for no good reason.

Tzikeh pointed out this site, which is offering various fan fiction stories for sale (along with what I presume are other, nonfannish stories published on the web, but I'm just guessing there). Imagine my surprise to find a story of mine listed on the XF page. I'm almost amused that they picked that story rather than, say, one of MustangSally's standalones, which gives you considerably more bang for your -- uh, 30 pence, apparently.

Highlander, Star Wars, Star Trek: TNG and XF were the main fandoms I saw -- Highlander is not explicitly listed, but it's the main entry under "slash." There also was some X-Men in there randomly. As for the XF, the selection principle was mysterious at best, though there were some good ones in there that I actually remembered.

I'm going to write and demand the removal of my story. Who knows what will happen next. Any UK folks out there willing to help a girl out with UK notice-and-takedown procedures? (Or perhaps general principles for getting the offer to sell withdrawn, since it's not clear the story is actually online.)