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February 3rd, 2012
I found out yesterday that my hosting company will be shutting down next week. Apparently I did not receive the earlier notices. So will be making some plans to move my site but in the transition there could be some down time.
I have been sick but I am still working on moving the site and my writing forward. I have done a lot of reading, at least for me, on my ereader. So, I hope to have some posts up soon, I just need to find a schedule that works for me.
January 8th, 2012
It has been a long time since my last post. Much has changed in that time with my writing and my goals for my writing. I have not given up on writing and I am currently looking forward at where I want to go with it. I have considered e-publishing myself or still looking at traditionally publishing. Right now I am leaning towards e-publishing but that will take some time and effort was I look at which works I have that are ready and looking at editing those works and having them read by some Alpha/Beta readers (I will be looking for some so if you are interested please let me know).
With this in mind, I have a goal on bringing people back to the site or at site (I have considered moving the site to the top of the domain. That will likely mean new postcasts or other works on the site. I have a short story written and recorded in the Shadow Hunter series, Shalli’s last mission as a Hunter. I also have two more sections for the Exiled series (the follow ups to Buried in the Sand), written which I will likely start podcasting at some point hopefully soon. Still need to set a schedule for recording and writing.
I will also being posting and writing about other things. I have a couple of books that I have read recently and may put up reviews on those. I also got an E-reader and may have comments on that as well. I hope that those that have stayed subscribed will continue to stay with me as I rebuild this site. I hope other that have left return and then new people come and join us here as I set a new path.
October 27th, 2009
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February 27th, 2009
Over the past few days there have been several people who have stepped up with their views on the Kindle’s text to speech function. The latest has been Wil Wheaton. Wil brings to the discussion the ultimate proof as to the risk the Kindle poses, by comparing his own reading to that of his computer. Anyone who can listen to this and still say that the Kindle is a threat needs to go back and listen again.
Ultimately though, this discussion is not about what the Kindle can do today but what it might be able to do in the future. Some will argue that in time the computer voice will be able to rival the human voice. This might be true and people even refer to computer animation as an example. However, even if it gets to that point I think you can look at animation as a good example here. You can not give a computer a script and say animate this and I believe that no matter how good a computer text to speach gets, you still need thought and understanding of the text to be able to put the right emotion and emphasis into the speach. This is not just a matter of a vice voice.
For me, however, this is not the whole story behind this. I see this as a fight between the old world publishing of books and the new technical world. Today technology is changing at an incredible rate and has changed they way we consume many arts. Music was once only available in live concerts and then came the radio and the record. This developed into the iPod and other MP3 players. The Theater and Plays turned to Movies and TV; then to digital movies that can be downloaded and streamed. These art forms and others adapted to the technology and were change.
This appears to just another case of the old and new clashing. Publishing has been fighting eBooks and changes. It comes down to two thing. The first is providing a product that people want, in the format that people want, for a price that is reasonable for both the consumer and the producer. The second is fair use. What do people have the right to do with a book they buy. For me a people has a right make derivative works of something they buy as long as they done sell it or distrubute it. Here is how Neil Gaiman summarized it:
When you buy a book, you’re also buying the right to read it aloud, have it read to you by anyone, read it to your children on long car trips, record yourself reading it and send that to your girlfriend etc. This is the same kind of thing, only without the ability to do the voices properly, and no-one’s going to confuse it with an audiobook.
A writers end goal is to get there work into the hands of their audience in the form that the audience wants and hopefully make money doing that. If you provide people with what they want and you provide it to them in a mannor that it fair, people will buy it.
December 27th, 2008
For the past year and half I have been using Podango to host my podcast files. I got notice today that they many not be able to continue to do so. Because of this many of the files in the feed may break at the end of the month. I will look of alternative hosting options for my files and will keep you up to date. Due to other commitments I am uncertain it I will be able to completely move all my files by the end of the year but I will endeavour to ensure that the disruption is as little as possible.
Thank you for your understanding and I will keep you updated.
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