On the One Degree blog, Bill Sweetman lists the metrics of success for a corporate blog.

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“Our audience zips around the Internet with tremendous agility and speed, and what do we give them?” asks Holt. “Stodgy, dull, laborious and indulgent reviews.”

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The ladies of Eve's Alexandria take on M. John Harrison's inscrutable (but utterly brilliant) 'Nova Swing'.

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Elaine Radford's classic critical essay on Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'.

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An essay from 1969, via A. R. Yngve.

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"This talk was first delivered at Novacon 9, in November 1979, and is reprinted from Vector 98, June 1980." It says important things about sf that still mean a lot now - if not more.

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The much-discussed Spinrad column at Asimov's. I'll be commenting on this one soon, I think.

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Sean Green launches the newest amateur crit-blog on the scene. We'll be reading, man!

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A whole lotta Ballard originals, plus pithy insights from their collector. Via Posthuman Blues.

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"Jameson’s been interested in science fiction for most of his career, but never before has he published so large a work devoted wholly to the genre—or, more specifically, devoted to utopia, here

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"No author in SF, not even James Tiptree, Jr, is as impossible to "just read" as Philip K. Dick." the inestimable Graham Sleight looks at the classics of PKD.

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"So why ask for people's opinions if you aren't interested in what they say? Because people are lazy enough to assume that protest and participation are the same thing."

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" 'The Terror' is not a goosed documentary; it is far truer than that. It is a fable." Clute on the latest from Simmons.

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"I have always been an admirer of John’s criticism, but never uncritically so [...] Nevertheless I tend to nod along with what he has to say, until every so often something just makes me stop dea

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Science fiction is written predominantly by white, western males. For them, the alien may be found beyond borders, across continents. The Other is someone with a different language, skin colour, even

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"The history of modern SF is one of five attempted revolutions — one success and four enriching failures." Whoo - some contentious stuff in here. Let battle commence! Link via various source

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An in depth look at the much delayed (but still much coveted, by me at least) ACC Award Critical Anthology. I need to read more of this year's shortlist before Eastercon so I can pitch in to the argum

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"What we have indexed is about 4.3 million words of science fiction criticism and reviews not on the web." Excellent - my longings have been answered!

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"To say that it is ironic that SCIENCE FICTION criticism is reliant upon anachronistic business models is something of an understatement." Some provocative ideas from Jonathan McCalmont.

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"Time magazine just announced that their person of the year is 'you' - meaning all of us involved in social media content. I find this particularly uninspiring." Matthew Hurst is unimpressed

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"Dogged by rumors that Ares I rocket would not be able to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle ... NASA’s Constellation program manager has shot back at unnamed critics in an e-mail missive he

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"The last couple of years I’ve been pleased to see an outbreak of out-and-out criticism of religion, not just for the bad things religious folks do in the name of religion, but for the silliness

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"There are tens of thousands of people out there who still think I’m Spider Jerusalem, which is the irritant penalty for breaking the rule and spending five years writing about a writer."

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"And before the future citizen can contribute to the decision-making process, they need to have a good grounding in the fundamentals of science and technology, rather than the sound bite science

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"For my part, I think competent-veering-toward-kickass is a perfectly sensible starting point for character development, but then again, what do I know? I read books with skeletons on the cover.&

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Very interesting and thoughtful piece over at Worldchanging.

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Those Memetherapy boys have started a pretty good comments thread with one of their Brain Parade features. Why not go have your say too?

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Emerald City's Cheryl Morgan has her say about the 'biased reviewing' controversy that assailed the SF blogosphere over the last month.

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Goodkind's work considered from an objectivist viewpoint. Interesting; must re-read a few of them. Link via SpeculativeFiction.

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