Damn!

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132764367/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona

Now we've got another assassination. And when people point out that the rhetoric has been leading to this, the Glenn Becks and Sarah Palins and Rush Limbaughs will all pretend that they can't possibly understand how using the language of murder and elimination when you're talking about political difference might ever be misconstrued.

Damn!

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132764367/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona

Now we've got another assassination. And when people point out that the rhetoric has been leading to this, the Glenn Becks and Sarah Palins and Rush Limbaughs will all pretend that they can't possibly understand how using the language of murder and elimination when you're talking about political difference might ever be misconstrued.

Dipping the toe in the water....

I made a comm.

Yes. I did.

It's called commonplacebook and I am still floundering unnecessarily about it. I mean, I want it to be a convenient place to drop links to anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, in any incarnation, but ... well.. there are a lot of comms out there. Thing is, I think of it like Holmes's commonplace books (think paper scrapbooks!), where a lot of things would accrue and then he'd go through a fit of indexing them. In my case it would mean a fit of tagging.

But what to put there? Fics get lost, and having the old URL might be something to use at the Wayback machine, archives change URLS, authors change archives. A way to note those changes isn't bad. And then there's the deadtree world of Holmes. I mean, books get published or self published and a review would be helpful... I mean, if I wrote a review for "Sherlock Holmes and the Zombie Problem" would anyone read it? If you find a really excellent source on Victorian medicine on the net, do you tell anyone? There don't seem to be any venues for that sort of thing. And it might be nice to have a list of comms, or pointers to the strange and marvelous. So, a comm it is, and not just me maundering, because other people find shiny things too.

Then there's the problem of whether or not to allow anon comments. And whether to moderate posts and all. At the moment I'm pretty cautious about it, because I keep seeing spam in comms that aren't.

Anyway, it's there. And if you want to play, come and play. And I'll start going through my library and writing reviews so there'll be some content for you to look at. Or something.

Dipping the toe in the water....

I made a comm.

Yes. I did.

It's called commonplacebook and I am still floundering unnecessarily about it. I mean, I want it to be a convenient place to drop links to anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, in any incarnation, but ... well.. there are a lot of comms out there. Thing is, I think of it like Holmes's commonplace books (think paper scrapbooks!), where a lot of things would accrue and then he'd go through a fit of indexing them. In my case it would mean a fit of tagging.

But what to put there? Fics get lost, and having the old URL might be something to use at the Wayback machine, archives change URLS, authors change archives. A way to note those changes isn't bad. And then there's the deadtree world of Holmes. I mean, books get published or self published and a review would be helpful... I mean, if I wrote a review for "Sherlock Holmes and the Zombie Problem" would anyone read it? If you find a really excellent source on Victorian medicine on the net, do you tell anyone? There don't seem to be any venues for that sort of thing. And it might be nice to have a list of comms, or pointers to the strange and marvelous. So, a comm it is, and not just me maundering, because other people find shiny things too.

Then there's the problem of whether or not to allow anon comments. And whether to moderate posts and all. At the moment I'm pretty cautious about it, because I keep seeing spam in comms that aren't.

Anyway, it's there. And if you want to play, come and play. And I'll start going through my library and writing reviews so there'll be some content for you to look at. Or something.