publishing

Learn what Creative Commons is and is not, and how to use it when you create and publish something. How does Creative Commons compare to traditional copyright? Do you have to give up your rights, or can you still maintain control?

As this is an intro session, it's going to be somewhat brief, and mainly focus on why we ask you to publish things from BarCamp under an open license.

It sounds like there is a lot of interest in Creative Commons, and a longer session may happen. (Also keep an eye out for a Creative Commons Salon to be held in Milwaukee sometime this year.)

In a recent article in Discover magazine, the editor wrote that Science Fiction is a dying breed with the way technology is progressing. In response, I'd like to host a session about how the Science Fiction community is countering such thoughts with new ideas in fiction, new ways of presenting works, and how authors are just as ingenious as the scientists they base their stories off of.

Please post any comments or thoughts you have on this here, so I might better gear the session to be of interest to a larger audience.

I am considering using my current profession (small press publishing) to host a session on the effects of online publishing on literary style. Because of the ever-growing nature of the internet, the fast-paced response of sites like Twitter, and the accessibility of blogs, literary style seems to be changing to go along with the flow. How is this affecting writing, the writing process, editors (agents, publicists, et al), and internet-based publishing?

Please post any comments or thoughts you have on this here, so I might better gear the session to be of interest to a larger audience.

An audio recording at:

http://www.theyellowumbrellacorp.com/bcm2/