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Webcomics As Business Model
oddjobs writes "It's not the most groundbreaking article, but the Chicago Tribune does a pretty good job of looking at the state of webcomics-as-business-model. They mention the usual suspects (Marvel, McCloud) but most hopeful is Unbound Comics, which is selling comics collected in Adobe's e-book format. Fans of the 80s book Dalgoda take note."
Hemos es un bujarrón!
Yeah, I'm sure our friend Dmitry would be delighted that comic artists are using this.
sulli
RTFJ.
Catch me if you can, oh... and LIFT AND SMOOTCH!
Many of the most obsessive trolls want their work to be seen. These sad, lonely souls want to create a disturbance, ANY disturbance, in the small world of slashdot. Hence trolling relies on a cheap, easy source of karma for "dummy accounts." Some of these are "karma burn" accounts that are used to post offensive material with a +2 bonus, exposing more people to the troll. Some are even used to mod up fellow trolls.
The obvious solution, of course, is "karma whoring," the practice of making insipid, cravenly conformist comments to please the moderators. Who would spend months slowly polishing an account, with insightful and informative comments, only to throw it away on goatsex and gibberish? No: for these "trollers," whoring themselves out is the only possible way to get their posts seen by more than a small, sad clique.
I used to think the editors were arrogant and hypocritical for their policy in the discussion groups. But now I see why their policies are needed. The trolls are destroying slashdot. Post by post, line by line, they are driving away the readers who created this site.
Who is your typical troll? A teenage loser, probably gay, who whiles away the day at slashdot, hoping to impress losers even more pathetic than himself. Responsible readers of the site should not be exposed to this filth. Most trolls are neither clever nor funny. They look like what they are: the crude efforts of frustrated children. Long live moderation.
- Mode 13 hex
I am a hapless traveler that hath heard
stories afield that talketh of the existence
of the lesser crested penis bird which doth
abound in this forsaken domain. Forsoth I
hath not cast mine eyes on one of these
merry beasts.
I pray that one of ye kind trolls that doth
inhabit this dark domain shall showest me
the rare penis bird in all its mighty glory?
I bid you well kind trolls.
- Goat Farker the moomin.
(Still quoting one of the Megatokyo authors:)
"With our hosting change, our hosting expenses have also gone up dramatically."
Yeah, pretty drastic going from free hosting on a box you snuck into your employer's datacenter ("for testing purposes") and used unlimited bandwidth for six months to actually paying for a legitimate co-lo, ain't it! Amazing the crap you can pull at Verio and not get fired. Simply amazing.