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By: Your Brand is NOT a Community / Free Verse Media

Your Brand is NOT a Community / Free Verse Media — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:24:19 +0000

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By: Christina Katz

Christina Katz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:58:24 +0000

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By: Ben Dawe

Ben Dawe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:39:05 +0000

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By: Christina Katz

Christina Katz — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:43:36 +0000

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By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:03:30 +0000

The science fiction (&f) community has always connected, fan and pro alike, going all the way back to the 1930s. All the characteristic pre-internet fannish technologies — fanzines, APAs, and attendee-run conventions — are mechanisms for enabling many-to-many communication. Fandom is a multipart conversation that never stops.

The SF world took to the internet like ducks to water. The first Usenet newsgroup that wasn’t about science or computers was about SF. It wasn’t until the World Wide Web got going that the profiles of “internet users” and “science fiction readers” diverged.

Obviously, Tor loves science fiction and fantasy, and appreciates and supports the SF world. I guess what I’m trying to say is yes, Tor has always reached out and made that connection with the readers and fans, and yes, it’s put real work and resources into building on that; but Tor knows it didn’t invent the SF community. What Tor is, is part of it.

By: nethspace

nethspace — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:48:47 +0000

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By: David Nussbaum

David Nussbaum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:15:23 +0000

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By: Garrett Kiely

Garrett Kiely — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:50:50 +0000

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