Tama Leaver
Helen Merrick
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Welcome to our first podcast! We’re still sorting out how we’ll do shownotes and so on, but here are links to most of the stuff we mentioned in our first episode ...
Stuff we mentioned in this episode:
- Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster,
- J C R Licklider, ‘Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network’. ARPA, April 23, 1963, http://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
- place of sf in early net history - sf lovers mailing list http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ http://www.livinginternet.com/l/li.htm
- sf fandom and virtual community - greg benford ‘The internet is recapitulating sf fandom’ http://reason.com/archives/1996/01/01/altfans/ & see Helen’s paper on sf fans and virtual community, http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2004/06/17/%E2%80%98we-was-cross-dressing-%E2%80%98afore-you-were-born%E2%80%99-or-how-sf-fans-invented-virtual-community-helen-merrick/
- Keyboard Cat plays off Sarah Murdoch after Australia's Next Top Model crowns the wrong winner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZOZN7Oq5dw
- Tama's article on Greg Egan's Permutation City: ‘Iatrogenic Permutations: From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other’, Comparative Literature Studies, 41, 3, 2004, pp. 424-435.
SF texts we mentioned through the show
- Trudi Canavan, The Novice, book 2 of the Black Magician triology
- http://www.trudicanavan.com/aboutbooks.php?pg=books2
- Marianne de Pierres, Sentients of Orion series http://www.mariannedepierres.com/books/marianne-de-pierres/sentients-of-orion-series/
- Sarah Zettel, Fool’s War http://www.sff.net/people/sarah-zettel/Site/Fool%27s%20War.html
- Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
- Greg Egan’s Permutation City - http://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html
- Lots by William Gibson, so his website: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/
We’d love to hear your thoughts, so either leave a comment here or drop us a line at pangalacticinterwebs@gmail.com
- Helen (http://members.westnet.com.au/merwood/) & Tama (http://www.tamaleaver.net/)
Pangalactic Interwebs by Helen Merrick and Tama Leaver is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License.
Comments (6)
I really enjoyed this first episode. More please!
Looking forward to the next episode! And if you need any inspiration I can think of a few topics that might be interesting to discuss. One thing I find interesting is how many paths a user can take to answer a question these days. From Google, to Wikipedia, to posting a query on #lazyweb on Twitter, to sticking to your own niche stomping ground (be it in the "open discussion" area on forums, Facebook, locked LJ posts etc) ... I think there's a thesis somewhere in examining different demographics and their query-answering behaviours online... wish I had the money to take time off work and write it!
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