I'm a regular lurker at a lot of writing blogs as well as blogs by people I fangirl. Usually, keeping a close eye on some of the link hubs (= places where interesting things have a high chance of turning up) is enough to get your daily dose of "strange and interesting". (Two "hubs" I keep an eye on are Making Light (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and Fandom Wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank) - the latter partly to know which fandom topics to avoid this week.)
As I'm not sure about what to ask you, is there anything specific that I might not find in an encyclopedia or article?
I could write an ecyclopedia article about what you won't find in an ecyclopedia article, and still miss out the detail that interests you or that you got wrong. (Like the person who listened to me talk for an hour about my travels in the US, and then asked, "but wasn't it hard, doing all this driving on unpaved roads -- they do not have paved roads in America, do they?") So it's far more efficient to everyone involved if you wait until you have a specific question, or maybe a specific paragraph you want fact-checked.
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Date: 2006-11-03 10:01 pm (UTC)I'm a regular lurker at a lot of writing blogs as well as blogs by people I fangirl. Usually, keeping a close eye on some of the link hubs (= places where interesting things have a high chance of turning up) is enough to get your daily dose of "strange and interesting". (Two "hubs" I keep an eye on are Making Light (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and Fandom Wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank) - the latter partly to know which fandom topics to avoid this week.)
As I'm not sure about what to ask you, is there anything specific that I might not find in an encyclopedia or article?
I could write an ecyclopedia article about what you won't find in an ecyclopedia article, and still miss out the detail that interests you or that you got wrong. (Like the person who listened to me talk for an hour about my travels in the US, and then asked, "but wasn't it hard, doing all this driving on unpaved roads -- they do not have paved roads in America, do they?") So it's far more efficient to everyone involved if you wait until you have a specific question, or maybe a specific paragraph you want fact-checked.