The SF-Fandom moderators got together and decided to create a new John Carter of Mars forum for fans to discuss the upcoming Disney/Pixar and Asylum movies as well as past attempts to create John Carter of Mars movies.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
How to promote your online fanzine
Someone dropped by the SF-Fandom fan fiction forum to announce a new fan fiction zine called Kasma.
After looking at the site I decided to leave the link drop in place, even though this was a first time poster. Most of the time we delete these kinds of one-stop wonder posts because these people usually just want to piggy-back off a successful forum (or blog)'s visibility.
You know, I've been there many times, having to launch a new site and needing to obtain both contributors and visitors. This blog, for example, is not exactly one of the high-traffic bastions in the Xenite.Org network, but it does get a fairly regular bit of traffic. And when I post to it regularly the traffic builds up gradually.
When you're announcing a new Web site you should really only do so through venues and channels where you are well-known and trusted. Let your online friends recommend the site to people they know in other venues. That's a form of viral marketing that doesn't offend most online communities.
But there is something else you can do for yourself: start a blog and post to it once a day. If you cannot do once a day, then aim for 2-3 posts per week. You don't have to say something profound in every post. People will stop by to see what you have to say.
You do need to let your blog ping search services. Usually blog software will ask you if you want your blog to be visible to search engines. Set this to YES (or ON) so that each of your blog posts goes out to services that announce your blog to the online world and search engines.
And be patient. You're not going to become an overnight sensation unless you create a substantially unique Web property -- and most of us cannot do that.
If anyone reading this post wants to announce their fan site at SF-Fandom, we do have a Fan Sites Forum where you can do this. But please do us the courtesy of joining our community and sharing in our discussions. SF-Fandom is first and foremost a forum community. It is NOT a place where you can just drop a link and forget about us.
That is really, really rude.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
After looking at the site I decided to leave the link drop in place, even though this was a first time poster. Most of the time we delete these kinds of one-stop wonder posts because these people usually just want to piggy-back off a successful forum (or blog)'s visibility.
You know, I've been there many times, having to launch a new site and needing to obtain both contributors and visitors. This blog, for example, is not exactly one of the high-traffic bastions in the Xenite.Org network, but it does get a fairly regular bit of traffic. And when I post to it regularly the traffic builds up gradually.
When you're announcing a new Web site you should really only do so through venues and channels where you are well-known and trusted. Let your online friends recommend the site to people they know in other venues. That's a form of viral marketing that doesn't offend most online communities.
But there is something else you can do for yourself: start a blog and post to it once a day. If you cannot do once a day, then aim for 2-3 posts per week. You don't have to say something profound in every post. People will stop by to see what you have to say.
You do need to let your blog ping search services. Usually blog software will ask you if you want your blog to be visible to search engines. Set this to YES (or ON) so that each of your blog posts goes out to services that announce your blog to the online world and search engines.
And be patient. You're not going to become an overnight sensation unless you create a substantially unique Web property -- and most of us cannot do that.
If anyone reading this post wants to announce their fan site at SF-Fandom, we do have a Fan Sites Forum where you can do this. But please do us the courtesy of joining our community and sharing in our discussions. SF-Fandom is first and foremost a forum community. It is NOT a place where you can just drop a link and forget about us.
That is really, really rude.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Stargate: Universe not so bad at all
I did watch Stargate: Universe (which we're discussing in the Stargate Forum at SF-Fandom) Friday evening and I liked it. The show is following in the footsteps of grittier science fiction series like Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Babylon-5 so I think the hard-core space drama fans will take an interest in it.
As I mentioned in this Stargate Universe discussion, I hope they are done using pseudo-medieval village sets. I know it's cost-effective to reuse the same medieval-looking sets over and over again, but it's just so hard to think of advanced space-faring civilizations as living in small villages.
Toward the end, Stargate SG-1 was developing the courage to speak of "millions of Jaffa" (usually as they were wiped out) living on specific worlds. In my mind, no television show has to do much to convey the idea that there are 100,000,000 people living on a planet. Star Trek in its various incarnations usually made it clear that the crew were visiting just one part of a large capitol city or something.
So I'm looking forward to meeting the orange-and-blue-skinned winged aliens who don't understand a word of English and whom the Destiny crew have to learn to get along with through sign language, simple barter, and many episodes. I don't want to see any silly Ferengi-style aliens. I want to see strange species that have a hard time relating to humanity and who don't know what to make of the intrusion of 80 humans into their part of the universe.
And no more threats to Earth, please. That trick has been done to death.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
As I mentioned in this Stargate Universe discussion, I hope they are done using pseudo-medieval village sets. I know it's cost-effective to reuse the same medieval-looking sets over and over again, but it's just so hard to think of advanced space-faring civilizations as living in small villages.
Toward the end, Stargate SG-1 was developing the courage to speak of "millions of Jaffa" (usually as they were wiped out) living on specific worlds. In my mind, no television show has to do much to convey the idea that there are 100,000,000 people living on a planet. Star Trek in its various incarnations usually made it clear that the crew were visiting just one part of a large capitol city or something.
So I'm looking forward to meeting the orange-and-blue-skinned winged aliens who don't understand a word of English and whom the Destiny crew have to learn to get along with through sign language, simple barter, and many episodes. I don't want to see any silly Ferengi-style aliens. I want to see strange species that have a hard time relating to humanity and who don't know what to make of the intrusion of 80 humans into their part of the universe.
And no more threats to Earth, please. That trick has been done to death.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
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