Sunday 16th December, 2012

Another round of Advent presents!

The TTA Press Advent calendar continues (links can be found from here: [External Link]) and there is a forum thread for discussion (here: [External Link]).

(If you want me to mention another Advent calendar or you feel my ignorance of them needs fixing, get in touch!)

Here are episodes 5 and 6 of the children’s TV series, Moondial. Episode 6 is the conclusion, so something different next week.

Remember my edition of The Next Big Thing? My nominees versions went up this week, so here are the direct links to Amber FOX’s edition [Link Defunct] and Vincent HOLLAND-KEEN’s [External Link].

My Flattr [External Link] experiment continues. It’s still surprisingly hard to tip people whp don’t have it on their sites. If they don’t, it’s possible to tweet it at them – but there’s nothing to say they have to pick up said tweet. This is assuming they have a twitter account or that the contact details for it are available on the site. Ah, well, more money in for the other ten or so people who have accepted a share of my December budget. And some people obviously aren’t interested in picking up what could end up being tiny donations even if there’s a possibility of it all adding up. Both Google and Wikipedia have joined in at some point priorto my joining, interestingly enough, so there are obviously people who think this is going to work out.

(A note, in case you haven’t read the Flattr site through: the tip is divided among all the people I click on and accept my click at the end of the calendar month. The clicker also sets a monthly budget of how much money they have available to divide among the clickees.)

Sunday 9th December, 2012

More Advent presents!

The TTA Press Advent calendar continues (links can be found from here: [External Link]) and there is a forum thread for discussion (here: [External Link]).

But, today, you don’t need to go that far as my story was up (with slight delay for a technical difficulty that was basically your standard “problem exists between chair and keyboard”). It’s called How Otter Made The World and is a sort of Just So / children’s story. Or an Otter Creationist Story. Or something.

(If you want me to mention another Advent calendar or you feel my ignorance of them needs fixing, get in touch!)

Continuing the Moondial series of episodes / videos, here are episodes 3 and 4:

As mentioned last Sunday, Bob Lock nominated me as part of the “The Next Big Thing” blog roll (direct link to Bob’s version here: [External Link]). The JourneyMouse Edition went up on Wednesday. I’m expecting Amber FOX and Vincent HOLLAND-KEEN [External Link] to join in the fun this week. There are also a selection of links to other friends and acquaintances who have already taken part.

And my last Advent / December project (that I know about…): Flattr [External Link]. I have signed up and given myself a five euro budget for the month to go out and tell people I think they’re great (and that I want to hand over some pennies. It’s surprisingly hard because a lot of people I would like to tip – online comics, I’m looking at you – haven’t so far signed up. I can drop gentle hints by sending it to a twitter account, though. Some people have joined in and seem to like the idea, some people not. I’m quite liking the whole damned thing and hope it works out.

The Next Big Thing, The JourneyMouse Edition

You may have noticed the “The Next Big Thing” meme doing the rounds. It’s basically a network of blog posts in which writers showcase and promote their latest works – and then nominate others to carry on the chain. As multiple people get nominated (up to 5), my mental image is something like a spider’s web, if spiders were to crochet or make chain links.

I was nominated by Bob Lock, who posted his version … Continue reading