The Best Media in Life is Free does as promised. Found via Boing Boing.
A nomination for the “Best” blog: I hope that the blog will also recognize great sites displaying CC books, in which case I’d nominate Matt McClintock’s multiformat Manybooks.net. Here’s the 38-book CC section with carefully chosen works.
I’d like to mention my serial novel MORTAL GHOST, a YA fantasy also licensed under CC. It’s being serialized in weekly instalments from my blog for the next 38-40 weeks, after which a free PDF download of the entire novel will be available. There are quite a few adult readers as well.
Chapter Three goes live today.
Here’s the link: http://mortalghost.blogspot.com
How do you know it is “the best”? I would not discount the possibility that a large part of CC-ed content is stuff that no real publisher would touch.
Definitely much more than just a possibility, Branko. But have you seen the quality of much of the stuff that many so-called real publishers issue?
And I don’t think David was using ‘best’ in quite that sense.
I think they mean “best” in the sense that content at the blog seems to be screened? It seems like the editor does not post everything but rather chooses the best they find?
Oh, Branko, don’t be silly. I follow the lit world very closely (both mainstream and alternative online CC) and can say I rarely can distinguish between them in terms of quality. The main difference between mainstream publishing and online CC publishing is simply the age of the creators. If you’re 40 or above, chances are you’re working in mainstream publishing. If you’re below that age, chances are you’re doing some sort of online publishing.
There still is a need for a good quality filter, but blogs do a good job at that. (Also, I’m working on a project to do that as well).