Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

06 Jun 2009, 10:11 a.m.

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Wow. Leonard and I have gone to MoCCA (a comics festival/expo) every single year we've lived in New York! This year I plan on seeking FREAKING KATE BEATON, Brian Wood, Sarah Glidden (will probably buy …

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05 Jun 2009, 8:58 a.m.

On Reciprocity: One To Many To One

How can I reconcile the awesome company or person you are with the fact that you made a partnership with little ol' me? Could it be that I am exactly as important to you as …

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04 Jun 2009, 23:18 p.m.

Possibly Another Post-WisCon Reentry Letdown Post

Sometimes I forget that various friends of mine will have different frames of reference than other friends have. "mpreg? Is that a file format, like mpeg?" "Maybe you explained open source before, I don't remember." …

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04 Jun 2009, 8:05 a.m.

Post-POST

Scott Rosenberg has been on a roll recently, with blog entries like "Once more into the pay-wall breach: No gravedancing edition": [Y]ou can get some revenue from readers, and there's nothing wrong with trying; but …

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03 Jun 2009, 14:56 p.m.

Failure And Imagination

As it scrolls off my blog's front page: this entry borrows "informational topology" from the excellent science fiction novel Blindsight by Peter Watts, available as a free ebook from his site. If you have not …

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02 Jun 2009, 13:47 p.m.

Wearing Out HREF

Empirically, at least a few folks seemed to enjoy my panel participation at WisCon. Some links that came up during a panel on representing our stories in genre fiction: Tempest's plea to genre authors, they're …

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02 Jun 2009, 13:04 p.m.

Dude, Where's My G'Kar?

I miss watching Babylon 5 for the first time.

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01 Jun 2009, 11:40 a.m.

Your Essentializing Obsessions

John Darnielle, whose prose sounds a little like Steve Schultz meets Ta-Nehisi Coates, on someone's new album: I love things with personality. Sometimes people use the term as short-hand for "filled, to a fault, with …

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01 Jun 2009, 7:07 a.m.

Opportunity Cost Plus World Market

I have some fuzzy thoughts burbling about: stories that shore up our identities, communication and vulnerability, accounting for post-scarcity in decoding flirtations (and markets, and marriages as analogs to patents), ableism, and how the unnoticed …

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31 May 2009, 18:26 p.m.

A QuickTip From America's Test Extrovert

As Seth Stevenson noted four years ago, marketers for car insurance can sell to most of the American populace. Nearly everyone needs car insurance. The market's huge and fragmented, so marketers put ads everywhere. I …

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