Comments on: First Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:02:29 +0000

Yeah, but the M2 is just starting out, and they started with who they could get to write for them. Now that they are up to 7000 readers, the writers are getting better and better. Their stories will get better, and more newsworthy, too.

By: Walker Spaight

Walker Spaight — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:46:50 +0000

Nevar!

By: Aimee Weber

Aimee Weber — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:25:22 +0000

Walker, I may not be able to make it tonight (or I may jump in late.) But please remind Cris and LF to chant the following for you…

One of us
One of us
gooble gobble!
gooble gobble!

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:30:02 +0000

Uri, you should have folded the Herald. You should never given it over to these guys who will just preen each other and the same group of people endlessly. It’s a travesty to watch.

coco

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:18:20 +0000

Thank you, Uri. Thank you. Now, will you PLEASE come back??? That was fun while it lasted, ok, take another 30 days, puke on your shoes, but please come back.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:07:20 +0000

Well you can be kind to them if you want, but someone has to point out that what is important from where they sit may not be so important or –believe it or not — interesting, from where other people sit. In particular, while their efforts at content creation may be interesting in a way, a case can be made that what really matters in the long term success of these social spaces is not who makes the coolest content, but rather the nature of inter-user behavior and conflicts in virtual spaces and if and how they can be managed.

I think it is also telling that the Cristiano hurls the greatest insult he can muster — “you won’t be taken seriously” — somehow losing track of the point that this is still in some form a video game and should actually be… *shockers* …fun. One might retort that *some* people in this game (won’t say who) take themselves far *too* seriously.

And on the subject of taking shit seriously, I wonder how many trillion synapses must up and fail before one decides that fansites like the Metaverse Messenger are taken seriously and the Herald is not. I mean, call me back when one freaking story in the Messenger gets picked up by Salon.com, The New York Times, the BBC, NPR, CNN, Gamespot, The Boston Globe, Izvestia, El Mundo, C|Net, Wired News, The Independent, New Scientist, etc etc etc and then Drudged, Slash/Dotted at least 5 times and discussed in some dozens of other blogs.

By: Brace

Brace — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:59:58 +0000

“fictards” I love it – Uri have my babies?

By: Walker Spaight

Walker Spaight — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:52:13 +0000

I prefer to kill ‘em with kindness, ignore the deeply misguided bits of criticism that crop up, and just plow on as I see fit. No matter what direction it goes, the Herald will *always* be fairly unbalanced, no worries there. And Post 6 Grrrls ftw!

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:14:18 +0000

Man, you should have given those fictards a good bitch-slapping Walker. “The Herald is unbalanced.” Geez Amy, people can learn that by reading the masthead. Remove the post six girls???? Is there no sense of tradition anymore?

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:51:31 +0000

Um, “for some reason”? Gosh, Walker, didn’t you get the memo? You are at the center of the FIC now, dude, with the direction the Herald is taking. Enjoy!