29 Comments on “Daily SF/Writing Blog Reading List”

1. That’s a heck of a list, honored to be on it!

   tb

2. Are we still making writing deadline jokes?

3. Why do you think I put up a list instead of real content?

4. Yikes a roni!

   That list is huge. You must be an incredibly fast reader.

5. I am. But also, not each of these sites updates daily, so reading them is simply a matter of establishing they’ve not update and moving on.

6. They’re friends, they write interesting stuff, they’re useful, they’re enemies and I track their every move, they owe me money, I desire them intensely

   John, thanks for including me on your list. But this intense desire you have for me has got to stop.

7. Thanks. :-) I enjoy your blog, too.

   Oh, I mentioned some aliens from Old Man’s War in an answer to a funny question Meme Therapy asked me for their Brain Parade. I’ll let you know when it’s up. Hope it’s not too spoilery. :-)

8. David Louis Edelman:

   “But this intense desire you have for me has got to stop.”

   David, all you have to do to stop it is to stop haunting my dreams.

9. Brokeback Scalzi

10. It should perhaps be explained to readers of the Whatever who are unfamiliar with LiveJournal that “Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s friends list” doesn’t actually mean Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s friends list.

    “Friend” is a term of art on LiveJournal that merely means “person whose LiveJournal posts you’ve subscribed to.” The fact that LiveJournal chose to use the word “friend” to describe this relationship has led to metric tons of unnecessary angst.

11. Got about half of those in the feedreader…glad to know you read Futurismic; sometimes you wonder why you’re bothering when all you get is comment replies from rabid climate-change-denial people. (sigh)

    I hope you’ll forgive a blatant self-plug, and allow me to suggest popping over to Velcro City once in a while. It’s like what I do at Futurismic, plus book reviews and ranty bits, often sf related, but science/tech/future/culture gubbins makes a heavy showing too. Shameless, yes, but meek and retiring doesn’t get a guy anywhere…

    By the way, I’m assuming (hoping?) you use an RSS reader to go through that list? The thought of someone clicking through that many sites by hand makes me want to cry and call the carpal tunnel specialist… ;)

    And double by the way, nice new graphics in the background…or am I just showing how long it’s been since I clicked through from the feed?

12. Apologies if you linked to this and I didn’t notice. John Stewart has made a commercial for Old Man’s War.

13. that’d be david moles, btw.

14. Oh, thanks. No I have even more places to piss away my free time. Friggin’ Scalzi with his superhuman powers of comprehension and multitasking.

15. Armchair Anarchist — I can’t speak for Scalzi, but for my own similar lists of blogs, I’ve found that RSS readers don’t work as well as simply creating a bookmark folder, and then opening the folder in a massively tabbed window in Safari or Firefox. I can then read through my food/sci-fi blogs as I get other things done (like, y’know, work) in other windows, flipping back to the blog window and command-w closing (or control-w if I’m stuck on a non-Mac) each blog as I’m done with it. RSS readers (even the one built in to Safari) tend to slow me down (because not all blogs feed longer posts and picutres, forcing me to click over anyway) and useful content like the “recent comments” is lost in the feeds.

16. Shana: D’oh! I knew that. Fixing now.

17. I’m on the list! I’m on the list!

    I feel squishy happy with joy, Mr. Scalzi. (Going off to blush intensely now…)

18. I’ve googled and you’ve got comments about del.icio.us, and I’m sure you’ve seen the referer logs from me and others, do you have a public collection of links there?

19. “…I track their every move…”

    Keen! I’ve got a stalker.

20. No. I’m not entirely convinced of the utility of del.icio.us for me, and if there is indeed something I want to bring to the attention of others, I’ll just write about it.

21. I’m going to assume Torque Control falls into the “interesting” category rather than the “what was I thinking?” category, in which case: glad you like it.

    (I admit I’m surprised not to see Coffee & Ink or Asking the Wrong Questions on your list, though …)

22. You may be interested to know, John, that Truth Laid Bear ranks the Whatever as the top SFF blog by number of inbound links.

23. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

    How on earth am I ever going to get anything done now?

    Ok, I’m really grateful for all the cool links, but man, I got a deadline.

24. Wow. I don’t want to know which category we’re in, but I’m definitely flattered. Thanks!

    (Hmm. Guess that means I need to update things, huh?)

25. I’m just hoping I’m not in the “owing John money” category…

26. That is an impressive list. I think I shall delude myself into thinking that you vaguely know who I am from JJA’s blog, which would be lovely since I adored OLD MAN’S WAR and THE GHOST BRIGADES. =)

    (And to think, I would have gotten the chance to meet you at Readercon, and had the bad luck to be dreadfully ill with a stomach virus instead.)

27. Why no Cherie Priest on your regular reading list?

28. She’s on PNH’s friends list.

29. Ah hah! :-)