Re:In the Information Age, Curators are King
by MartinCron on Sunday May 22, 2011 @02:38AM
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When I worked on crowd-based duration stuff at the Cheezburger Network, we noticed that long-form content (video, even 5-panel comics) were much harder to crowd-curate than single pictures. I am sure that even short Sci-Fi stories have the same problem.
Re:In the Information Age, Curators are King
by khairulzaman on Sunday May 22, 2011 @01:53AM
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Back when podcasts started to get huge, I listened to a weekly podcast that reads some sci-fi stories to you: Escape Pod. From what I remember, it's actually pretty decent and they have a whole network of other genres as well, covering horror and fantasy.
Re:In the Information Age, Curators are King
by yotamros on Saturday May 21, 2011 @11:59PM
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I love your use of the word DRECK :)
I'd be surprised if the percentage of poor quality fiction, and SF writing is higher compering to the percentage in other areas, such as music, movies, theater, etc. There's lots of good stuff, but a ton of DRECK.
Bringing this back around to my "point", I find it interesting that you don't have a "Quora" or "Earbits" of online fiction, let alone Science Fiction anywhere. I wonder if that's because there are more people who listen to music than who read... or some other problem? Or maybe it's just that my experience still is the average one, and because you need talent to pick up a guitar and get out even a chord, and not so much to write, perhaps there's just so MUCH noise versus signal in writing that you can't curate it successfully (short of being a traditional publisher, and we all know how well they are doing these days).