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A while back (in, uh... 2006), I got the urge to compile a master list of fannish things related to Invisible Man as a sort of snapshot of where the fandom stood at that moment. Or at least, where the bits of it that I could see stood. I never intended to keep it up-to-date or ever do an overhaul on it, mostly because holy crap it was a lot of work, and the fandom was already fading.

But

trascendenza is hosting a watchathon starting in February, and suddenly I was digging it out. Because who knows! Maybe people will want to go looking for things, and not know where to find them!

So I overhauled it after all. I did not go looking for new things to add; this is still largely a snapshot of 2006. But I took out any individual links to fic or vids that can now be found on AO3 or ff.net; deleted author sites where all of the author's fic could be found on AO3 or ff.net; updated dead links to Wayback where I could; and deleted a couple of sections that don't seem especially relevant anymore (mailing lists that are now dead or full of spam; defunct del.icio.us tag searches - if anyone needs pointers on how to search pinboard for I-Man stuff, just ask).

If a link had vanished and I couldn't find it on an archive or on Wayback, I left it in, but struck through, to keep a record of what used to exist.

( On to the I-Man stuff! )

Okay, wow, it's been a long time since I had the urge to dive into a fannish project like this, and just spend hours poking at something. Yay, I-Man!

If you're doing deadline-based writing and you have an iPad, you have a new option: Write or Die has a new app out. It's $9.99, which is wincy, but that's how much the desktop version costs, so fair enough, I guess.

It has some features the free web app doesn't:

- save to various places, including email (put the account you want to email to in your Settings first) and a clipboard so you can paste it into another app (after doing some testing, this is the best of the two for preserving your line breaks). Eventually you'll also be able to save to Google Docs and Dropbox, but they're not active yet (Gdocs) and not working yet (Dropbox). Don't even try Dropbox yet, it'll freeze and you'll have to force-quit out. (I think he maybe pushed this out for nano a skosh earlier than he should, but hey. the writing part works!)

- a nyan cat punishment level (don't try this one in a real document; it worked but then I was stuck and had to force quit out)

- a storySpark section that randomly offers up three words or short phrases for inspiration (currently visible on mine: toy store, zen, peasant), and you can tap to get three more random things if you want something different

- autosave to a files section, so if you have to force-quit out you haven't lost everything, and you can go look at your files later and copy or send them elsewhere (you can't get back in to edit or add to them once you've quit out or hit "done" on a project).

- deadline countdown -- you tell it when your deadline is, and it tells you how long you have to finish. (hey, the entire point of this program is to scare you into writing.) You could set it for, say, the day before you would absolutely have to have your YT story out to beta... (someone out there must actually finish before the last possible day, right? /o\)

I think that's it for extra features; other than that it's regular Write or Die: you pick the word count you want to reach, the time limit you want to set for yourself, the grace period before the program starts nudging you, and the level of nudge you want, from a gentle popup to a horrendous noise to something that eats another word for every second you don't write to nyan cat.

In turn it will panic you into writing without stopping to edit and second-guess yourself, and will give you a word count as you go. Win!

I'm trying to get my head back to a fannish space after a rough month, and between Yuletide, Pinboard, and the OTW elections, there's a lot going on. I may have things to say about some or all of that if I can start wrapping my brain around things, but meanwhile I've been trying to sort out where to find info about Pinboard stuff and OTW elections stuff. So elections first:

The OTW Elections site has a lot of useful info, but unfortunately it's not easy to find; I don't think they were expecting quite this much activity, and the News posts that serve as links to the information are starting to scroll off the front page. So I dropped the Elections folks a note about it, but given that it's in the middle of what's turned into a very busy elections season, I have no idea if they'll be able to address it this year or not.

So meanwhile, some direct, sorted links to help find information better on the site:

Who are the candidates:

List of candidates, complete with official candidate statements and including links to transcripts of the first two chats

Links to the candidates' journals, where you can see how they interact day-to-day with people, ask them questions directly (by comment or PM), etc.

Chat transcripts

Transcript of the first candidate chat

Transcript of the second candidate chat

Further chat responses from the second candidate chat

Followup questions from the chats

First set of followup questions, after the initial chat

Questions (simplified):
- What concrete things will you do as a Board member?
- What do you see as Fanlore's role?
- What do you tell people when asked "What does the OTW do?"

First set of followup questions after the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- Three questions, combined into one set relating to plans for outreach
  - to fans outside Western media journaling fandom
  - to fans outside of Western media fandom, especially anime/manga fans
  - to underrepresented sections of fandom.

Second set of followup questions after the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- How would you balance increased internal communications (i.e., more meetings) against already overburdened committees?
- What was your role in the server-naming issue, and if you had none, what would you have done had you been involved?
- How can the OTW further support and encourage fair use projects, what do you value about those projects, and what will you bring to them personally?

Third set of followup questions after the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- In the face of volunteer burnout, what would you do in your current committee to help bring in more volunteers and increase long-term retention, and what would you do as Board member to do so org-wide?
- How do you intend to balance the goal of increased transparency, which brings with it a heavier workload for everyone concerned, with the goal of reducing staff and volunteer burnout inside the org?
- How will you balance your role as Board member with your other roles inside the org (in terms of time commitment)?

Fourth set of followup questions after the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- Request for Naomi and Betsy to expand more on their concrete plans, also open to other candidates to answer.
- What have the candidates done specifically to promote organizational sustainability, and "build the builders" (help turn fans into the builders of their own tools/places), for both technical and non-technical roles.

Fifth set of followup questions following the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- What do you see as the Board's role in soliciting all kinds of feedback, and how will you prioritize this as a Board member?
- What do you see as the biggest challenge to sustainability in the org, and how will you work to ensure a sustainable future for the org?
- What do you mean when you use buzzwords like "transparency", and how does it affect a casual user of the AO3?

Sixth and final set of followup questions following the second chat

Questions (simplified):
- What do you think of barriers to easy participation in the org right now? If you think they need to be lowered, what specific, concrete things will you as Board member do to do that? How will you reward casual participation without devaluing more committed volunteer work? How will you balance the needs of casual contributors, volunteers, and staff?
- Direct to Betsy and Naomi (others answered as well): Why do you think your committees are so special that they require representation on the Board?

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Invisible Man (2000) - updated links for an old master list of fan stuff

Yuletide and NaNo on iPad

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