He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. —Psalm 113:9

March 11, 2008

Something's brewing at Tor.com

Looks like my source was correct about what Tor is up to. According to Patrick Nielsen Hayden, in addition to a blog, the site will...
"...feature new original fiction on a regular basis, illustrated under the supervision of art director Irene Gallo, and that these original stories—free of DRM, offered as part of the blog feed and also Available For Your Convenience in a variety of other formats—will have their own associated open comment threads, just like everything else on the blog. We know that there will be lightweight “social networking” features for registered users, including the ability to form mutual-interest groups through tagging and the ability to create journals and/or discussions of their own. Most of all, we know that the real point of the exercise isn’t to create yet another blog, but rather, a place and a context for the lively, ongoing, wide-ranging, and profoundly self-organizing discussions that have characterized the science fiction subculture since its earliest days."

So basically, it's the fanzine meets Web 2.0. Sounds pretty good to me.

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