Creativity

The Fabulist Needs Your Help!

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From Josh at The Fabulist:

The-Fabulist.org is looking for volunteer slush readers … If you’d like to get involved, please email The Fabulist at readme@the-fabulist.org, and include a short note detailing your interest, experience and expectations for doing any slush reading.

Background: The Fabulist’s website relaunch has gone well. Traffic is up and we’re starting to get a goodly queue of submissions to review, of fiction and poetry. In fact, the number of submissions is starting to exceed my ability to manage them in a timely manner.

As I mentioned, we need volunteers only … The Fab is entirely volunteer run, and while we imagine a future where we pay people, writers as well as staff, that future is not yet upon us. We’ve never worked with slush readers before, so in addition to anything else, I welcome any advice on setting up slush workflow, expectations, etc.

Help him out!

– Steve

Kill Your Cable A Year (and more) Later

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As we migrated to MuseHack, I got to review past series, and by review I mean suddenly discover the insane amount of links I had to check and reconfigure.  This got me looking back at my own attempts to Kill Your Cable and what I learned.

Well that’s been over a year, Fan To Pro is now MuseHack, and I figured I’d share the repercussions now that the lack of cable has had time to become part of my life.  Or not part of my life.  Or something.

Let’s face it, cable has been part of our lives and culture, the fact we can and are leaving it is affecting our lives, our media consumption – and the technical direction of various companies.

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Maker Culture And Cities

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Maker Culture isn’t just the spectacular gadgets we see from Maker Faire, there’s a lot of “quiet” things like crowdfunding city changes and urban engineering.

Citzens, Cities, and Makers.

I’ve been mildly funding things like Maker-scientists and citizen involvement in things like Little Free Library.  Curious to see how far this can go (and in many ways, this is kind of old school).

– Steve