My girlfriend ran an artshow of Science Fiction art in London last year. This was generally well received by those in the publishing industry but almost totally ignored by fine-art critics.
One possible problem was that a lot of the art was "commercial" art - eg art that was used for book covers. This seemed to cause more problems than art generated by computer...
www.sflink.net for more info on the artists who exhibited - including some big name SF and Astronomy artists!
I am dismayed at getting press releases for around 12 new Dr Who books being published per year. I am reasonably happy about the Audio CD's of old stories no longer watchable in video form, but I am desperately worried this is just an attempt to milk a cash cow. I hope I am wrong.
I am running an RSS reading site for Science Fiction and Computing books and I get the same feeling that few are interested in providing RSS files. I guess I will have to write them myself. Bother. If anyone has any good SF or computing books sites that have RSS files then do tell me
I used to work for a company in the UK called Cray Communications (part of Cray Electronics). I think it was bigger than Cray Research, but obviously people got confused... ("You work for Cray?") I left them ages ago. They are now called Anite. (Sorry for the slightly off topic post - I thought you *might* be interested)
A similar (but different) situation with any kind of domain name which uses references from Douglas Adams' books: in particular the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Adams work is being "controlled" by a company called The Digital Village (which he partly owns - so it isn't as bad as Sony). The TDV Lawyers have issued a general request for everyone to cease using domains mentioning characters or places or things from any Adams book.
Now of course this seems to be just posturing on the side of TDV lawyers as people in the company itself seem to be quite nice and reasonable but it has led me to start the move changing a domain: megadodo.com to galactic-guide.com
Ok - not quite the same thing as Sony but connected non-the-less.
Slashdot Mirror
Bother. I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago. Now I'll have to test its upgrade procedure :-)
We even have a review of the sequel of this novel published before this Slashdot article!
0 5/ 17/0837213
http://news.diversebooks.com/article.pl?sid=02/
Amusingly enough the reason why I went for Slashcode instead of PHPNuke was because I couldn't install PHP on my server and had no experience of it.
You mean me writing a book review about slash and me running a book review website is self promotion? Probably, yes.
http://news.DiverseBooks.com/
One possible problem was that a lot of the art was "commercial" art - eg art that was used for book covers. This seemed to cause more problems than art generated by computer...
www.sflink.net for more info on the artists who exhibited - including some big name SF and Astronomy artists!
How well do the GnuCash developers know UK business (and tac) rules? ie is GnuCash suitable for small UK based businesses?
I am dismayed at getting press releases for around 12 new Dr Who books being published per year. I am reasonably happy about the Audio CD's of old stories no longer watchable in video form, but I am desperately worried this is just an attempt to milk a cash cow. I hope I am wrong.
I am running an RSS reading site for Science Fiction and Computing books and I get the same feeling that few are interested in providing RSS files. I guess I will have to write them myself. Bother. If anyone has any good SF or computing books sites that have RSS files then do tell me
I used to work for a company in the UK called Cray Communications (part of Cray Electronics). I think it was bigger than Cray Research, but obviously people got confused... ("You work for Cray?")
I left them ages ago. They are now called Anite.
(Sorry for the slightly off topic post - I thought you *might* be interested)
Now of course this seems to be just posturing on the side of TDV lawyers as people in the company itself seem to be quite nice and reasonable but it has led me to start the move changing a domain: megadodo.com to galactic-guide.com
Ok - not quite the same thing as Sony but connected non-the-less.
Alex Mc