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[ingriam.livejournal.com]

Remember that wanktastic, spamarific quote Chris Williams made on LJ a while ago?

( I made some macros of it )

LOTR getting pulled, fast.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Today there's 86 non-adult LOTR stories. I think that yesterday there were 170. Almost 50% baleeted in one day.

Number of Harry Potter stories is identical to yesterday.

slightly late to the game

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

Was on vacation when this whole thing exploded last week. *sigh*

But I have posted the entirety of my email conversation with Naomi and David Williams that occurred back in March when those first solicitation e-mails went around. I'm not posting this for any spiteful reason. I just want to add it to the public record, as it were. Private information (mine and theirs) has been removed.

ETA: Post edited to remove Naomi's last name, per request of David Williams. 5/28/07, 10:40 pm.

Discussion and News Round-up May 26 - 28, 2007

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Chris Williams's Spelling Improves In Masculine Company.
Instead of links to the fantastic analyses of the Chris Williams, FanLib CEO, interview at Henry Jenkins' blog, I give you the Chris Williams Henry Jenkins Interview tag. Here are a few I found outside of this community.

slashpine: Another one of those pesky smart women.

justhuman polls us about the interview. Chris Williams participated; you can, too!

melyanna has questions for FanLib. "What do I think will be the result of this? Well, as Adam Savage of the Mythbusters says, failure is always an option."

"She Got A Little Hostile In Her Second Reply."
Weekend trends: many hilarious icons and much FanLib suckage.

miera_c posted the emails she exchanged with David Williams and Naomi of FanLib in March, 2007, when they tried to recruit her for beta testing. Do not miss! As angiepen said, "I'm starting to tilt away from 'Evil' and back toward 'Stupid' again."

scarah2 reports FanLib's response to a member asking about FanLib's requests for fanfiction.net passwords. David Williams, how are you so not awesome?

scarah2 also brings us this story: fanfiction authors are yanking their Lord of the Rings fic from FanLib, with half disappearing in a single day. Thanks to this post at middleearthnews?

Please Pass The Meta.
lilithilien wrote a thoughtful Marxist analysis of FanLib vs Fandom. "We are merely workers in their fanfic factory."

paradox_dragon has an easy to follow and entertaining analysis of FanLib and sexism.

narahttbbs is disturbed by FanLib's reliance on wikipedia for all things legal.

read_in_reverse tells us this unsurprising news: FanLib is slapping Adult content ratings on Bible fanfiction even if the stories do not contain sex or violence.

thingswithwings loves fandom's response to FanLib. Oh honey, it's wanktastic! <3 <3 <3