Thursday, October 20, 2005

Counting Criticism Once More With Feeling

So Frank's gone and installed Statcounter, just to see how it compares. Having had a quick look at it, I can now safely say that I'm going to become obsessed with it. It really does display an astounding amount of detail. Of course, I'll still look in on our Awstats but for more in-depth detail, Statcounter is my new God.

Well, Eric Burns over at Websnark seems to have done a lengthy critique on the nature of criticism. I say 'seems to' because I'm too lazy to read it in it's entirety. What I did read was a complete statement, albeit very eloqently so, of the obvious. But don't think I'm criticising Eric's critique of criticism, I just wonder why people have to argue these points when they're so palpably obvious. Then again, maybe I've missed something.

One of the new contributors over at Digital Strips has done a nifty run-down of the whole Jack Thompson/Penny Arcade affair.

Some big, or relatively big anyway, moves in the webcomic world. Long running Shlock Mercenary has joined Blank Label Comics and Girly has hooked up with Dayfree Press. Both these moves hint that these collectives are looking like the way to move forward in webcomics. Eric over at Websnark has probably written at length on that too. Yup, I knew it.

Cory Doctorow's new novel, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, is now being serialised via RSS. No matter when you subscribe, you'll get the whole novel delivered a couple of chapters at a time. You can even get it on your mobile phone via Winksite.

In related news, Fox have put the kibosh on a Halloween fan adaptation, by non-profit theatre group counterPulse, of the Buffy epsiode 'Once More With Feeling', even though Joss Whedon didn't want them to. There's a really interesting analysis of the affair over at Lawgeek. I think I've probably said this before but these big entertainment groups really would want to start hiring new lawyers. This would have been so patently harmless, and potentially a great boost, to the Buffy brand, that it makes so little sense to come out looking like the bad guys in this manner. It just makes no sense to me.

Now you can get humorous dust-covers to wrap around whatever book your reading.