Brooders.net

This is just well said - Burst Culture. (by Warren Ellis).

My favourites that are so true:

*) The hurdle to credible publishing on the web, now, is the nine dollars it costs to buy a domain name from GoDaddy, which can be mapped on to a free Tumblr or Blogger space.

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*) Bursts aren’t contentless, nor do they denote the end of Attention Span. If attention span was dead, JK Rowling wouldn’t be selling paperbacks thick enough to choke a pig, and Neal Stephenson wouldn’t be making a living off books the size of the first bedsit I lived in.

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*) Monetisation through a combination of ad programs like Indieclick or Federated Media, clickthrough systems like Amazon Associates, and merchandise operations like Cafe Press (which I’m assured is much better now)…do actually work.
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*) None of this is new thinking. None of it.

I like another point (in the article) that if your a sci-fi writer, collaborate with someone else like minded, build a site/blog, promote yourself, don’t wait for a diminishing set of underpaying sci-fi mags to publish you stories.

Warren Ellis as I’ve mentioned before wrote the transmetropolitan series, a cyberpunk comic. He’s not pro-establishment, just get’s in and speaks his mind (See his blog - small warning that he does post about anything.)

In the last five minutes i found this quote:

Action is the foundational key to all success.

-Pablo Picasso

I guess that’s what he’s saying, don’t like how other people want you to publish your thoughts or stories?

Just do it yourself, $9 for your voice and google to connect people searching for the the same ideas.

Nothing .. other than I am reading 4 books at the moment relating to these topics.

The God Delusion

Arguments for and against God’s existence. Dawkins, from a couple of documentaries I’ve seen, seems to be antagonistic and just as closed minded as the religious people he accuses of being close minded. However, he does raise some interesting things I had not thought of before. Early days in this book, although viewing a couple of documentaries and reading this book, is highlighting that logic and faith seem to be mutually exclusive.

Future Shock

1970s book about the rate of change in society. Scary, even back then he was worried, and that acceleration of technology and social change seems more relevant now. Onward “Death of Permanence” or so it seems from my reading so far !

Pragmatic Programmer

Learning to be a better programmer .. improving my craft.

Tea from an Empty Cup

First in the series (I think) of Detective Konstantin, followed on by “Dervish is Digital“. This book (although I’m only 15% in) is about people dying while hooked into Alternative reality.

I have ordered more books .. so many books, so little time.

Somewhere, in the primordial goo left over from the game System Shock, Ethereal Packet sniffer and Neuromancer, evolved EVE.

Check out their media section or the YouTube vids below:

FTP Transfer

BitTorrent

While not quite Neocron or Dystopia it actually serves a purpose, that of monitoring your network.

I downloaded and installed this at home .. it’s pretty cool. When I fired up my BitTorrent client, there was stuff being fired everywhere !

( Via Ninja Strike Force - DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING ON YOUR NETWORK? EVE DOES. )

I finally, found some motivation, and installed a blog on NeoScholar.

One of my Pet Projects has reached adolescence, and needs a voice.

There I can drone on about the joy of books, market prices, shipping costs and it might actually be relevant !