Month: March 2014

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It’s an EW blog featuring superfans with passion and unique voices. Our editors have invited a select group of contributors who aren’t satisfied to merely watch TV– they are driven to post and share about it. This beta site is a pilot project, the start of a community we plan to grow, with your help, into a fun place to talk TV. Join the conversation!

From the EW page announcing the new Content Farm approach.

As if the “write our content for free because we’re awesome and so are you and unpaid work is the best work!” thing wasn’t bad enough, the “superfans” thing really sets my teeth on edge. Fandom isn’t a competitive sport, for fuck’s sake.

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So what happens to the huge amount of content in the archives of both DailyCandy and TWoP? It will all be saved in the digital ether, but not be available to the public.

Television Without Pity is closing down, and content from the site will apparently not remain available as a result. That’s a lot of content; I can’t quite imagine being those writers and seeing all that work just disappear to all intents and purposes. It’s been bad enough when I stop and think about the amount of stuff I’ve written for sites like io9 and Techland that are pretty much closed off from me these days, but at least it’s still out there.
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EW also is eschewing the current trend toward paying writers for clicks (at least initially). Some bloggers will be paid, but EW isn’t “putting a specific bounty on traffic,” EW editor Matt Bean said. Others will be compensated in the form of prestige, access to the brand’s editors and a huge potential readership audience via Google Hangouts and its SiriusXM show.

Great! Entertainment Weekly is going down to “Will you blog for exposure?” road. That’s just wonderful.
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Which Gorillaz album is the best? Follow-up: which Gorillaz song is the best?

Demon Days is almost certainly the best — the one with less filler, the most coherent narrative throughline (Really, what is going on in Plastic Beach?), and, of course, the one with all the hits*. I’m not sure it’s my favorite, though. Maybe I’ve listened to it too much, but I find myself revisiting Plastic Beach more often these days.

In terms of best song, holy moley, that’s a hard one. I want to say it’s either “Dirty Harry,” “Don’t Get Lost in Heaven/Demon Days” or maybe “Clint Eastwood” off the first album? Again, I’m trying to be subjective, but objectively, my favorite is either “Do Ya Thing,” which I just utterly adore, or “To Binge.”

(Edited to add: Or “Hong Kong”! I always forget “Hong Kong,” but I love that song to pieces. Classic melancholy Albarn.)

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The character, Snake Eyes, shall never be depicted or described as a fan of the New York Yankees.

One of the content guidelines for the GI Joe franchise on Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s monetizing fan fic program.
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neyruto:

a dystopian novel about some guy who works in the government and is just trying to get by while some shitty kids try and overthrow society

Would definitely read.

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Learn to tell stories in 5 page installments (or less). Basic structure: PG 1 – your setup. PGS 2-4 – obstacles to be overcome. PG 5 – final act. Brevity’s important with writing for 2000AD.

Rob Williams’ advice for writers looking to break into 2000AD, from Reddit.

Si Spurrier adds “One really useful trick – and you’d be amazed at how much easier this is than it sounds – is to buy a 22 page spandex book and rewrite it as a 5 or 6 pager.” Now I want to see people breaking down famous US comics and remaking them as Future Shock-esque 2000AD strips.