Fiction Mashup

I posted a link to my wiki site to several discussion boards, and one suggestion was in addition to a remix, keeping in the spirit of things of audio sampling, was to do a fiction mashup. Take two pieces of fiction and mash them together. I think the idea is great. Anybody have two stories they'd like to see colliding?

More FictionRemix

So already I had an experience that shows me there may be something to writing fiction in a collaborative environment.

I posted a few stories on my wiki the other day, and then announced the fact on a few discussion boards I frequent. T. Lynn Adams, a fellow author hopped over to the site and read one of my stories. The story is an event that takes place in a children's Sunday school class. Now I sat through years and years of this kind of class when I was younger, so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what would happen in the story. But I haven't really been in a class like this on a regular basis for 15 years. T. Lynn Adams, on the other hand, said she has “sat through MANY a primary singing time”. She made a suggestion, based on her experience, that makes the story more realistic, and more humorous. Her suggestion adds an aspect of the story I had completely missed.

The crux of the matter is that the story will now (in my opinion) be a better story because somebody else lent their expertise.

FictionRemix

Well, I've finally put up a wiki site where people can remix fiction. I found a free site that uses media wiki, the same code that wikipedia uses. Anyway, I've only put up three things, a short story in the public domain, and then two very short excerpts from my next book (the only two things I've written from it). If anybody would like to tinker around with them, they can do so here.

Also, as of now, this is wide open. So if you your own work, or you have a favorite story in the public domain, or you'd like to see Shakespeare's As You Like It remixed with a hip-hop feel, by all means, add whatever you would like to the front page.

Water

There has to be an analogy to OER here somewhere...

Voice

I'm a writer, in the sense that I write. I've often heard the word 'voice' thrown around. When you write you want to create a good voice.

I'm a gamer, in the sense that I play games. I've never heard the word 'voice' thrown around. Until now.

Great article.

Liberty

When I listen to both sides of an argument, and don't know which opinion I should adhere to, I often ask myself the liberty question. Does this argument or opinion give more liberty to an individual, or less? Liberty is a long topic for another day, but I can think of very few, if any, instances where more personal liberty is a bad thing. Sure, when you give people liberty, things get messy, but in the long run, it's all for the better.

Which is why I think it's too bad that Google is censoring their search results in China. Censoring withholds information, which in turn limits liberty. The end result being that an individual ends up making a decision based on limited or incomplete information.

This image shows the difference between a full Google search, and a censored Google search.

Firefly

I had to blog this article becuase it's about Firefly, the best Sci-Fi/Western television series since... Well, has there even been another Sci-Fi/Western Television series? And not only it is about Firefly, but they use the phrase 'highly cunning'. Can't pass up such a one-two punch.

Anyway, it appears that with the success of iPod video, Firefly might be brought back to life. The idea is "to buy up the franchise from Fox [and] sell the show on a direct pay-per-view model. The consumer would view it on her or his computer, on his or her iPod, and on her and his on direct-to-DVD sent to his or her house or on demand through her or his cable or satellite operator."

The guy proposing the idea admits it's a long shot, "but if it does work then it could mean the end of networks killing off really popular shows as they might be saved by different online distribution channels."