New feed

I've added a feed for finagler's other blog, DocBug -- the LJ syndication can be found at: docbug_feed. Mostly politics, media, and technology.
Please enjoy.

(I observe with mild distress that when you create a new feed, all the current items in it show up immediately in your friends list, with the date of the first fetch. My apologies to anyone reading my friends list.)

Recent reading

Just had a look at Janis Ian's article on festivals -- should be required reading not only for anyone in the folk music scene, but for anyone contemplating putting on a filk convention.

Obviously, there are many differences between a 5000-person folk festival and a 150-person filkcon, but there are also enough similarities to make it well worth a read, especially the parts about workshops and "For artists" (near the end). Unfortunately there are no name anchors, making it impossible to link directly to sections.

There's a lot of other good stuff on JanisIan.com, including her article on The Internet Debacle and a couple of Worldcon trip reports.