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Sun, Jul 20, 2008

Blogroll

Posted at 1:35 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I regularly read two forums: Shadow Unit and the Girl Genius Yahoo forum. I'm occasionally active on the Shadow Unit forum, but I get GG by email and seldom post: the moderators on that forum are fairly obnoxious and the forum software doesn't work that well with Konqueror. I was more active on GG a couple of years ago.

Some of the sites I follow live in a strange limbo between fiction and the 'real' internet.

Othar Trygvassen (Gentleman Adventurer), a character from Girl Genius has a Twitter account, where his adventures are reported more or less daily. There is a portal and archive available.

Four of the characters from Shadow Unit have LiveJournals, where the Shadow Unit story has been continuing over the summer in the journals and comments. Hafidha Gates is 0metotchtli, Daphne Worth (who just announced that she is getting married to her girlfriend) is trollcatz and Chaz Villette, who is usually the most active blogger, is cvillette. Solomon Todd is ace-cub-reportr, but he doesn't usually use his account for posting. He just comments on the other characters' LJs.

The actual blogroll:

People I 'met' through the Shadow Unit forums and character blogs

Elizabeth Bear matociquala on LiveJournal

Emma Bull coffeeem on LiveJournal

Sarah Monette truepennyon LiveJournal

Amanda Downum stillsostrange on Livejournal

The Mad Gastronomer at inaurolillium and Ask Zombie Chef, both on LiveJournal. She was very supportive when I was freaking out about my new dietary restrictions.

And txanne, a real person (I think), with a fun LJ, who commented in the character blogs and ended up with a cameo in a Shadow Unit episode.

As you can see the Shadow Unit fourth wall is kind of porous in both directions.

The rest of these sites I check regularly.

Tech

Groklaw

Slashdot (I very very rarely read comments here, but the articles link to interesting places.)

Literature, Science and Culture

Making LightLiterature, publishing, politics, poetry, puns, emergency medicine. A ferociously civilized community of commenters.

More Words, Deeper HoleLive Journal of James D. Nicoll, whom I first encountered on rec.arts.sf.written. Cats, books, lnguage, SF and miscellaneous commentary, politics with a Canadian POV

Antick MusingsBlog of Andrew Wheeler, who used to be an editor of the Science Fiction Book Club, and used to post on rec.arts.sf.written. Publishing industry, books reviews and miscellaneous

WhateverSF author John Scalzi's blog had a million visitors in June (I was 30 of them). Pets, photos, music and movie and book reviews, guest interviews with other authors, politics and miscellaneous essays. Scalzi does a great rant when he is on a roll.

Language LogLinguistics

C. J. Cherryh - Progress ReportThis gets updated once every few weeks with the SF author's diary for the preceding time.

Neil GaimanNews about Neil and his professional acquaintances and activities, also his family and pets and bees. No comments on this blog, but he answers questions frm email in the articles.

WWdN: In ExileWil Wheaton: actor, geek and big-time blogger. He was on one of the Geek Cruises I took a few years ago, and the blog has kept me reading since then.

Charlie's DiaryCharles Stross, British SF author and former technology journalist. SF, politics and technology

Dynamics of CatsSteinn Sigurðsson, Icelandic born astrophysicist and former poster on rec.arts.sf.written. Science, politics, Icelandic culture, the iPod I Ching

Fullmetal AnalystA literature professor and fan of manga and anime. I first encountered her writing on rec.arts.anime.misc. I wish she had time to post more often.

Shawn's WeblogMy business partner. We talk back and forth in comments to our blogs.

Tetrapod ZoologyScience blog by paleontologist Darren Naish. Extinct species, extant species, endangered species and occasional species that probably don't exit. With illos and footnotes and links to the primary scientific articles.

PharyngulaScience blog by PZ Meyers. Atheism, biology, evo-devo, cephalopods and politics, especially fighting against creationism and Intelligent Design in schools and religous influences in government. I don't read most of the comments here (some of the atheism and political posts get a LOT of comments, but the articles are interesting.

HiggaionStudies in Biblical Hebrew. Hard to describe. Hasn't been updated much this summer, but it had some interesting articles during the school year.

Sing a Song of Sixpence Live Journal of an Emergency Department Physician in 'City X' (which may be somewhere in Michigan). Updates very occasionally, but the stories from the hospital are amazing when they occur.

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the WeekArticles by three paleontologists, including Darren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology

SF NovelistsWriters discussing writing in the articles and the comments

The Daily CoyotePhotos of Charlie the coyote. He's beautiful, and Shreve Stockton is a wonderful photographer.

The Edge of the American WestArticles about American politics, history and culture by history professors and guests

Robin McKinleySF writer Robin McKinley. American expatriot in England. Sf, writing, music, horses, hellhounds, gardens (especially roses),recipes, bell-ringing

There are other blogs I visit occasionally.

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