http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/ RecentChanges for opensourcespecfic http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/feedlogo.gif http://pbwiki.com/ PBwiki 1.3.8 support@pbwiki.com http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Wind+Tunnel+Dreams email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added Wind Tunnel Dreams ! Wind Tunnel Dreams

A project by Shira Lipkin.
* daily posts of flash fiction through 11/07;
* tip jar donation on each post;
* distributed via Livejournal during NaNoWriMo;
* correlated with raising funds for vet bills (as disclaimer note here that this is not a pure fiction model);
* requested writing prompts on the journal;
* at the completion of the project, LJ reading audience was approximately 990 users.

http://shadesong.livejournal.com/tag/wind+tunnel+dreams

From the site:
\"During the month of November, I\'ll be writing a flash/microfiction every day.

(No, this doesn\'t count as NaNoWriMo, because I\'m not swearing to 2K words a day, and it\'s not planned as one overarching story.)

The flash/mini/microfiction will be inspired by your writing prompts. They will not all be Shayara-based, as the bits I post during Blogathon tend to be - actually, I will try to avoid drawin]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:04:57 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage M. C. A. Hogarth's Aphorisms User-Funded Chapbook Project.
M. C. A. Hogarth's Flight of the Golden Griffin interactive novel project.
Shira Lipkin's Wind Tunnel Dreams livejournal project.
Auxiliary
SocialNetworking notes for how existing magazines can improve their social networking and trackback.
]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:27:29 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Flight+of+the+Golden+Griffin+interactive+novel+project email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added Flight of the Golden Griffin interactive novel project ! Flight of the Golden Griffin
!! An interactive novel

Structure:
* segments of the story are posted to the livejournal by the author
* at the end of each post is a 4-option poll
* only users that have donated have permission to vote in the polls
* poll outcomes determine the future movement of the story

Links:
* The livejournal: http://godkin.livejournal.com/
* The parent website: http://www.stardancer.org/godkin/

From the website:
\"The Flight of the Godkin Griffin is an experiment by M.C.A. Hogarth in what she deems is a new form of fiction: daily Internet-delivered journals influenced by reader participation. Her decision to try this is based on several factors; one of them is her own personal enjoyment of a story told in a similar venue, Sythyry\'s Journal.

Everyone can read Angharad\'s story whether they choose to give a patron gift or not, but part of the experiment involves whether story-telling in this fashion can sustain itself financially. Fiction has not yet found a comfortable]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:06:23 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Aphorisms+User-Funded+Chapbook+Project email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added Aphorisms User-Funded Chapbook Project ! Aphorisms -- a user-funded chapbook

Details on Hogarth\'s project are here:
* http://www.stardancer.org/kherishdar/about.phtml

From the \"About\" page:

\'\'\"This project was funded by reader donations. Each donation of $15 sponsored a new short, which is posted on the haikujaguar livejournal and archived here. A chapbook of all 25 incense stories will be offered for sale once the full run of stories has been sponsored and posted.

You may choose to join the list of patrons, or you are welcome to enjoy the incense stories that other people have made available with their donations. If you prefer to read on Livejournal, each incense story is tagged under the aphorisms of kherishdar for easy browsing. You may also wish to browse the author\'s information on the Ai-Naidar, or search the author\'s illustrations of the Ai-Naidar on Stardancer.Org.\"\'\'

Comments from the author:

\"Well, after trying to sell the flash fiction shorts (they\'re ~500 words each) to markets that took them and failing]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:02:55 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage Magazine Models
The Original Model The first model, from the original post on HomelessMoon.com.
M. C. A. Hogarth's Aphorisms User-Funded Chapbook Project.
M. C. A. Hogarth's Flight of the Golden Griffin interactive novel project.
Auxiliary
SocialNetworking notes for how existing magazines can improve their social networking and trackback.
]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:59:48 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Technical+Submission+Maintenance email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added Technical Submission Maintenance ! Technical Submission Maintenance
\'\'contributed by Erin Hoffman\'\'

Just starting a page with some freeform ideas on how web technology can provide tools for online magazines to handle submissions. Some magazines are using these automated processes already -- \'\'Strange Horizons\'\' has a submission form; \'\'Deep Magic\'\', when it was running, had a very sophisticated CMS (content management system) handling all of their subs, editor replies, status updates, etc. But there is still unexplored potential here.

A solid content submission system with existing web technology should be able to, in order of complexity:
* give an automated response to submission receipt (very basic, many magazines already do this);
* \'\'in\'\' the auto-response:
** tell the contributor how many unread stories are currently in the queue;
** give the author the current status of their story (initially would be \"unread\"; other categories could include \"first read\", \"hold for senior editor\");
** based on the # of]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:06:13 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage To create your own pages, start by clicking the 'edit this page' link at the top of the screen and adding a link to your page in the 'Pages' section below. Follow the model. You can create links by putting text in brackets []. The more magazine ideas, the better.
Pages
Magazine Models
The Original Model The first model, from the original post on HomelessMoon.com.
Auxiliary
SocialNetworking notes for how existing magazines can improve their social networking and trackback.
Web Native notes on how online magazines can deliver content using the unique strengths of their medium.
Technical Submission Maintenance on how modern web technology can improve the submission response process, providing automated information for editors and contributors.
Uncategorized (please categorize)
Fiction Genome Project
]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:57:35 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Web+Native email.hidden@example.com (george oliver) george oliver added Web Native !!Web Native

If your magazine is online it can deliver content beyond the traditional frame of a story, poem, or image. Here are some of the ways:

* [RSS feed fiction]. Perhaps a subset of:

* [Blog fiction].

* [Hypertext fiction].

* [Interactive fiction] (IF), known in the 80s as text adventures.

* [Alternate Reality Games] (ARGs).
]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:50:33 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (george oliver) george oliver edited FrontPage The Original Model The first model, from the original post on HomelessMoon.com.
SocialNetworking notes for how existing magazines can improve their social networking and trackback.
Web Native notes on how online magazines can deliver content using the unique strengths of their medium.
]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:43:08 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Fiction+Genome+Project email.hidden@example.com (Matt Arnold) Matt Arnold edited Fiction Genome Project A magazine subscription is a dead-tree form of a subscription to a web aggregation feed using technology such as RSS or Atom. The purpose of a magazine was to give the reader what they wanted to read, and weed out things they either didn't want to read, or got from another magazine.
We do this much, much better in the twenty-first century. But almost no editors get it. A human editor is good at understanding the tastes of a limited scope of reader, the reader who is subscribed to a specific magazine. But computers can understand a million people in detail.
Feeds, magazines, and other aggregator subscriptions exist to solve the problem that there are too many good books to read. Unfortunately, editors from the traditional, pre-web model are telling us they don't want to filter any more narrowly than that. This is because before the web, it was impossible to reach the Long Tail. To be financially sustainable, every issue had to satisfy a huge number of people.
Many of us do not care enough a]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:10:47 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Fiction+Genome+Project email.hidden@example.com (Matt Arnold) Matt Arnold edited Fiction Genome Project What is a magazine for?
A magazine subscription is a dead-tree form of a subscription to a web aggregation feed using technology such as RSS or Atom. The purpose of a magazine was to give the reader what they wanted to read, and weed out things they either didn't want to read, or got from another magazine.
specific magazine. magazine. But computers can understand a million people in detail.
Feeds, magazines, and other aggregator subscriptions exist to solve the problem that there are too many good books to read. Unfortunately, editors from the traditional, pre-web model are telling us they don't want to filter any more narrowly than that. This is because before the web, it was impossible to reach the Long Tail. To be financially sustainable, every issue had to satisfy a huge number of people.
Many of us do not care enough about books to read the glut of quality fiction, so we a]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:02:22 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/Fiction+Genome+Project email.hidden@example.com (Matt Arnold) Matt Arnold added Fiction Genome Project What is a magazine for?

A magazine subscription is a dead-tree form of a subscription to a web aggregation feed using technology such as RSS or Atom. The purpose of a magazine was to give the reader what they wanted to read, and weed out things they either didn\'t want to read, or got from another magazine.

We do this much, much better in the twenty-first century. But almost no editors get it. A human editor is good at understanding the tastes of a limited scope of reader, the reader who is subscribed to a specific magazine.

Feeds, magazines, and other aggregator subscriptions exist to solve the problem that there are too many good books to read. Unfortunately, editors from the traditional, pre-web model are telling us they don\'t want to filter any more narrowly than that. This is because before the web, it was impossible to reach the Long Tail. To be financially sustainable, every issue had to satisfy a huge number of people.

Many of us do not care enough about books to read the glut of quality ]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:01:10 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage This is the collaboration wiki for storing ideas on the future of speculative fiction magazines. The password is "future". Please feel free to add pages with your ideas on the potential of spec fic magazines. Public development notes for the microtransaction-based magazine specified in the original "Open Source Model for a Speculative Fiction Magazine" post will also appear here.
In terms of etiquette, if a page of ideas is posted for storage and discussion purposes and the author asks you not to edit it, please don't edit it. Err on the side of adding information rather than removing it. Please leave comments!
To create your own pages, start by clicking the 'edit this page' link at the top of the screen and adding a link to your page in the 'Pages' section below. Follow the model. You can create links by putting text in brackets []. The more magazine ideas, the better.
Pages
The Original Model The first model, from the original post on HomelessMoon.com.
]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:08:51 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/The+Original+Model email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited The Original Model An Open Source Model for Online Magazines
Erin Hoffman
Start up a website and tap trusted and competent people for editorial positions. Assume from the beginning that the first year runs at a loss; aim to break even.
Magazine runs as an online subscription ordinarily. One story delivered by email once a week to a paid subscriber list. The beginning of each story is posted to a blog; subscribe to read the rest, or purchase a story by item for $1. Once a month, stories are combined into a nicely formatted PDF with high end cover art, posted to the website for free download, and the link emailed to the subscription list. The PDF constitutes an "issue". Two issues per year will have guest editors from other magazines; subscribers can suggest/request guest editors on the forums. One issue a year will feature hyperlink fiction, which can link outside or within the story ("choose your own adventure" style).
]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:03:30 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/The+Original+Model email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added The Original Model An Open Source Model for Online Magazines
Start up a website and tap trusted and competent people for editorial positions. Assume from the beginning that the first year runs at a loss; aim to break even.

Magazine runs as an online subscription ordinarily. One story delivered by email once a week to a paid subscriber list. The beginning of each story is posted to a blog; subscribe to read the rest, or purchase a story by item for $1. Once a month, stories are combined into a nicely formatted PDF with high end cover art, posted to the website for free download, and the link emailed to the subscription list. The PDF constitutes an \"issue\". Two issues per year will have guest editors from other magazines; subscribers can suggest/request guest editors on the forums. One issue a year will feature hyperlink fiction, which can link outside or within the story (\"choose your own adventure\" style).

Each story has a tip jar. Readers on the website can tip stories if they like them, in any denomination. House t]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:03:17 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/SocialNetworking email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin added SocialNetworking This is basically a placeholder page. More content coming when I can get permission from involved parties.

- People love free stuff. This stuff doesn\'t have to be high investment. Give them a single download and it\'s better than none. Have your artists make resolution-sized wallpaper versions of magazine cover art and archive them on your website.
- People love to express themselves. Give them tools to create a media kit out of artistic elements from the magazine (because one thing the magazines do have is the sustainable budget for really high quality new fantasy artwork, something the online magazines will not have -- get mileage out of it) and you will have people advertising for you by using your MySpace, Livejournal, WordPress etc themes and skins.
- People love to give stuff away. Put codes on limited content and then give subscribers the codes, with no restrictions on who they can pass them around to. Corollary: people like exclusive content.
- People love to be generous. Run a campaign giving ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:02:48 +0000 add http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage Pages
The Original Model The first model, from the original post on HomelessMoon.com.
SocialNetworking notes for how existing magazines can improve their social networking and trackback.
]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:02:27 +0000 mod http://opensourcespecfic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Erin) Erin edited FrontPage This isAn Open Source Model for a real PBwiki page that you can edit.
Step 1: Fix Speculative Fiction Magazine
This is the typo
As an educator, you're great at spotting little details. Can you find collaboration wiki for storing ideas on the typo future of speculative fiction magazines. The password is "future". Please feel free to add pages with your Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:01:26 +0000 mod