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Keeping Track of Social Media - for the Blogging 101 Class

Mechanical Fortune Teller at Pike Place Market
Sometimes trying to figure out what's going on in social media feels like guesswork at best.
One of the things I really find interesting about the class is that social media changes so rapidly that every time I teach it, I have to add new information. For example, last time I taught, no one had heard of Pinterest, so I’m adding a new section about it and how to use it. One of the questions that often comes up in the Blogging class is where I get my news and information about social media. This list provides the ones I’ve found most useful.

All Facebook
Current and breaking information about Facebook.

All Twitter
Current and breaking information about Twitter.

Electronic Privacy Information Center
Social media and privacy issues.

Google+ Developer Blog
Best source for finding out about changes and new features to Google+

Mashable.com’s Social Media Section
News blog that covers many areas of tech news, including social media.

Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.

Social Media Today
Social media news.

TechCrunch
Technology industry news.

Cat’s Social Media Links on Delicious
This is where I store useful links related to the class.

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The Inevitable Award Post

I have been noticing a lot of these over the last couple of months, and I was going to skip it, but then I was totting up the publications from last year, and I’m proud of the fact that I had 19 stories published.

They are all either short story or flash (Swallowing Ghosts, Futures, Lost in Drowsy Dreams, The Forbidden Stitch) and are eligible for various short story awards. There’s some favorites from last one (marked with *), but the one I’m hoping will get some notice is “Long Enough and Just So Long” which appeared in Lightspeed in February, 2011.

Here are links to the online stuff:

Long Enough and Just So Long – Lightspeed, SF

Love, Resurrected – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, fantasy
Pippa’s Smiles, Swallowing Ghosts – Daily Science Fiction, fantasy
Bots d’Amor – Abyss & Apex, SF
Karaluvian Fale – Giganotasaurus, fantasy
Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know – Clarkesworld, horror? sf? fantasy?
The Immortality Game – Fantasy Magazine, fantasy
TimeSnip – Basement Stories, sf
Lost in Drowsy Dreams and The Forbidden Stitch -10 Flash , fantasy
Futures – The Dream People, sf? fantasy?
Zeppelin Follies – last issue Crossed Genres, sf

I am happy to send the stories not available online to anyone reading for Hugos, Nebulas, Tiptree etc. They are:
Close Your Eyes – Apex Magazine, horror
A Frame of Mother-of-Pearl – Intergalactic Medicine Show, fantasy
A Querulous Flute of Bone – Tales From the Fathomless Abyss, sf
Flicka – Subversions, sf
The Coffeemaker’s Passion – Bull Spec, fantasy
Aquila – Shadows and Light II, sf

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Superhero Fiction

So here’s the list of fiction(ish) drawing on comic book super-hero trophes, generated here.

Novels:

  • Michael Bishop, COUNT GEIGER’S BLUES.
  • Michael Chabon, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.
  • Tom DeHaven, IT’S SUPERMAN!
  • Jennifer Estep, KARMA GIRL.
  • Minister Faust, FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN.
  • Austin Grossman, SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE.
  • Jonathan Lethem, FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.
  • George R.R. Martin, the WILD CARDS series.
  • James Maxey, NOBODY GETS THE GIRL.
  • Perry Moore, HERO.
  • Tim Pratt, THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF RANGERGIRL.
  • John Ridley, THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS and WHAT FIRE CANNOT BURN.
  • StephSwainson, THE YEAR OF OUR WAR.

Short Stories:

  • Charles DeLint, “Bird Bones and Wood Ash”
  • A. M. Dellamonica, “Faces of Gemini”
  • Carol Emshwiller, “Grandma”
  • Jim Hines, “Sidekicked”
  • Jim Hines, “Stormcloud Rising”
  • Vylar Kaftan, “Blank Sezra”
  • James Maxey, “The Final Flight of the Blue Bee”
  • Tim Pratt, “Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters”
  • Cat Rambo, “Acquainted with the Night”
  • Cat Rambo, “Ticktock Girl”
  • Benjamin Rosenbaum, “The Death Trap of Doctor Nefario”

Poetry:

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey, FEMALE COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES

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