Comments on: Digg And Online Fiction

By: James Smythe

James Smythe — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:17:40 +0000

Wednesday 22nd sounds good. You stick something up here on the 21st (?) asking everyone to Digg it the following day, I’ll do the same, we ask everyone on the blogroll to do the same. Maybe we can make something resembling a tiny impact?

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:25:43 +0000

Alright. I’m not very good at this Digg thing, but I should be free for most of this week. Rare relief from my schedule.

Wednesday? 22nd?

By: James Smythe

James Smythe — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:11:17 +0000

Yeah, I am. I think we should maybe make a structured effort though, perhaps call upon a few lit/blogfic/fiction blogs/sites to do a whole ‘call to arms’ thing. Settle on a specific date and just go for it. Any suggestions for when?

By: Joseph McCrumble

Joseph McCrumble — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:26:55 +0000

I like Horton’s Folly. Let’s Digg it.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:45:14 +0000

Thanks, Jeff.

@James: I like Horton’s Folly. You serious about getting it into Digg?

By: Jeff Siegel

Jeff Siegel — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:16:19 +0000

Totally cool with me if you use it, with a link (that’s my pic up there). So thanks for linking, and an insteresting article.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:36:24 +0000

To eug and James: I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't help but include the little man after seeing it on James's post on the same thing (it's cute and fitting). Should I ask for permission? Or is leaving a link enough? Richard: Ahh! Glad to have enlightened you. *psst: took me an hour to cook up that pie chart*

By: eug

eug — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:04:54 +0000

hey now, give credit where credit is due. that nice little lightning-man clip is from http://www.theprivatesector.org/

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:50:42 +0000

Heh. I actually thought Digg was *only* for technology blogs!

By: James Smythe

James Smythe — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:00:07 +0000

I think we – as in, whatever circle of blogfic/blook/internet fiction lovers exists out there – should all vote one day on a particular piece of blog fiction we like. The one with the highest vote we should all digg, whether we really like it or not. Just to see. If we can have some suggestions I’ll set up a poll. My suggestion? Horton’s Folly (http://hortonsfolly.blogspot.com/). Easy to follow, jump right in fiction. And it’s funny.

Oh, and it would be remiss of me not to point this out: the lovely image at the top of this post of the man and the cloud and God, that’s done by a chap called Jeff. You can find him at
http://www.theprivatesector.org/, and buy his art at http://theprivatesector.etsy.com/. And he’s a chum, so I am biased, but those things look amazing printed and on your wall.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:20:15 +0000

*chuckles* What cheek!

By: Scott McKenzie

Scott McKenzie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:41:34 +0000

Oh yes I did ;)

By: Eli James

Eli James — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:38:40 +0000

Oh no. Oh no you didn’t.

By: Scott McKenzie

Scott McKenzie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:34:15 +0000

Dugg

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Why_doesn_t_online_fiction_get_Dugg