Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
bethbethbeth	5:39p	One of us. One of us... Okay, now change.gov is posting Wordle "word clouds" of Tom Daschle's health care talk on their website. I swear, it's only a matter of time before Obama starts posting memes, Biden begins to upload his chatlogs, and Rahm Emanuel starts to post self-insert RPF. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
bethbethbeth	5:26a	Why look: it's transformative government :) I just saw this on the feed for change.gov (i.e., the website of the office of the President-Elect). Link to the full story here. President-elect Obama has championed the creation of a more open, transparent, and participatory government. To that end, Change.gov adopted a new copyright policy this weekend. In an effort to create a vibrant and open public conversation about the Obama-Biden Transition Project, all website content now falls under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License: [...] Change.gov has incorporated additional features designed to make the Transition more accessible and its content more open and re-useable. For every video posted – from the weekly addresses, to press conferences, to speeches, to “Inside the Transition” pieces – there are links to high-resolution QuickTime video files beneath embedded videos (these are also available via the Transition’s podcast), so that the video can be saved to a computer and edited at will. The Obama-Biden Transition Team is continuing to explore ways to use new media to create a more transparent Transition. This is part of an ongoing planning process to create a 21st century government that is more transparent, participatory, and effective. (I wonder if Obama and Co would like an account with the OTW's Archive of Our Own? *g*) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 1st, 2008
bethbethbeth	9:54a	Hi, folks. Many of you will have read back in October (on Making Light and other blogs) about Scraps (Soren) DeSelby (aka, baldanders), a freelance copyeditor who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. The most recent updates say that he's progressing in his convalescence (starting to walk again, etc.), but as he had no health insurance, money is a problem - and will likely continue to be for the foreseeable future. I only know him by reputation, but many of his friends (and friends of friends) have been involved with fund-raising efforts to help defray the costs of medical treatment. One of my own friends - sykii - is selling prints of her [quite wonderful] photos for the first time as part of this fund-raising effort. If you get a moment, please visit her journal (here), and see if you might be able to help out with this worthy cause. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
bethbethbeth	2:23p	And now for something completely different: a note about Doctor Who... ( ...but it's entirely made up of casting spoilers and things, so if you don't want even the teeny-tiniest bit of potential spoileration, don't click on this... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
bethbethbeth	6:38p	Addendum to my previous post regarding La Belle Archive Sans Permissions: At the moment, if you click on the main page, this is the message you get: A better idea. Not gone (my computer's in the shop so if I took it down now I would lose everything. I'm on library computer right now- added Firefox FTP to the browser). I'll password protect the site for my eyes only. If no one can get in to see it, there should be no problem. This will have to do for the time being. It's all you'll be getting for now. I'll take your fics off my site when I get my computer back in about 2 weeks. I'm almost out of time at the library as it is. As I type this, the other pages are still accessible (like the HP fanfic page, for example), but they're not linked from the main page and she seems to be trying to disable the header links. I'm slightly suspicious about the convenient timing of the computer being in the shop, but the fact that she's taken any action at all is promising. I'll be keeping a watch for the password protection... ETA: Now there's a note that issues a stern warning: Also, stop sending me emails. You're flooding my box. If I get 10 more, I'm changing my address and you won't be able to contact me. So stop. There's no need any longer as the whole site is going down. Um...does she realize that the many emails are all coming from different people, writing one at a time, not a group of people writing as part of a concerted effort? No, I suppose she must not, or else why would she already have resorted to childish threats. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
bethbethbeth	10:26a	Does everybody already know about this site - http://www.amortentia.net/ - which is archiving people's stories (without their apparent knowledge), and I'm just totally out of the loop? There are stories in five fandoms (Harry Potter [the vast majority], Gundam Wing, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Stargate Atlantis) and many very recognizable author names, including - by glancing at only a few pages - luthien, dementordelta, predatrix, spike21, scribblinlenore, thetreacletart, atdelphi, the_con_cept, josanpq, geoviki, scribbulus_ink among others. Clearly, the site maintainer doesn't want to be noticed. She writes: "Now, why is it that I'm treating you as though I know you? Well that's simple! I must know you for you to have found your way here! xD I took this off of search engines and it's pretty much virtually impossible to find if you're looking for it if you don't have the link." She does speak to writers, just in case: "ANNOUNCEMENT to ALL Fanfic Writers whom happen to find their work on here: I will take your work off of here if you ask me too. D: I won't be very happy too, though. I made this site because I have noticed that a lot of my very favorite stories seem to be rapidly disappearing- what better way to secure them then to put it on my own site? I'd keep it on my computer but it crashes too much for them to be safe there. x.x" There's lots of contact info if you want to communicate with her, starting with her email address <lilliththeoddity@gmail.com> and moving on to a bunch of IM usernames on this page. And yes, of course she's on LJ/IJ (tehopheliac). If you're cool with your stories being archived all over the place, obviously this entry isn't meant for you. I know for a fact that some writers don't care who does what with their fiction after it's been posted. However, if you do care, well... ETA: I just noticed there's a ton of fanart archived on the site too, but I'm less familiar with the styles of individual artists (...they seem to be mainly cartoony/chibi-esque fanworks) (9 Comments |Comment on this)