Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game

Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by starwed on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @08:38PM (#2586170)

But then again, Ender's Game included the general idea of blogs as a plot point... (Not sure what else you would classify Peter/Valentine's self-published online essays as.)

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by icarus_drowning on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @08:49PM (#2586184)

Aren't they explicitly described as forum postings?

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by a1k0n on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:16AM (#2586584)

Yeah, it's described as something more akin to Usenet than anything else from what I remember.

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by starwed on Thursday May 26, 2011 @07:23AM (#2587317)

Yeah, they were using some use-net like technology to post, since the web wasn't really around when the book was written.

I'd argue they carried the same social role as blogs. To me, the key vision is that online, self-published essays could be widely read and influential.

-edit- Actually referencing the book, they do eventually become part of "newsnets", being paid for their work and gaining a wider audience.

It also describes them using temporary anonymous accounts, injecting deliberately inflammatory comments into discussions to provoke a response. >_>

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by rdl on Friday May 27, 2011 @07:58PM (#2593493)

Yes. And, sadly, USENET still has a lot of ways it was superior to current web-based forums, blogs, etc.

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