Oort-Cloud.org: Science Fiction/Fantasy Social Publishing Site

February 22, 2007 · Posted in Digital Resources, Literature, SF/Fantasy, Teaching, Teaching Resources 

Last September, Paul Hartzog of Many-to-Many posted social publishing, a musing on web 2.0 technologies and their potential impact on publishing. Among other things, he writes:

What I am suggesting is happening is the reversal of traditional publishing, i.e. the transformation of the system in which authors create and distribute their work. In the old system, it is assumed that the publishing process acts as a quality control filter (see “The Myth of Quality Control”), but it ends up merely being a profit-capturing filter. […] Conversely, in the new system, the works are made available, and it is up to the community-at-large to pass judgement on their quality. In the emerging system, authors create and distribute their work, and readers, individually and collectively, including fans as well as editors and peers, review, comment, rank, and tag, everything. This is already happening at sites like LibraryThing and BooksWeLike.

Yes, I have posted on this before. I’m bringing it back up because Hartzog and Richard Adler have started Oort-Cloud.org, a social publishing site for science fiction and fantasy. He explains the basic premise as such:

Write – Share – Read – Respond

Write
First, writers write.
Share
Second, writers share with others what they have written.
Read
Third, readers read what is available.
Respond
Fourth, readers respond to what they have read.

In this way, writers become better writers by virtue of having a distribution outlet that embeds constant feedback, and readers have access to better and better stories, where “better” actually means better for them based on their interaction with the writers. [Read whole post.]

I’ll be keeping an eye on it. I hope it thrives, and if it does, I’ll need to about incorporating the site into a science fiction course.

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3 Responses to “Oort-Cloud.org: Science Fiction/Fantasy Social Publishing Site”

  1. Kiran Bettadapur on April 20th, 2007 1:47 pm

    You may want to check out the Cylive platform, which enables Social Publishing. It also gives you total media type independence.

    Please let me know your thoughts and views.

  2. Kiran Bettadapur on April 20th, 2007 1:51 pm

    The web address is:

    http://www.cylive.com

    Thanks.

  3. John on April 22nd, 2007 12:07 pm

    Thank you, I’ll check it out.

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