Archive for the 'General' Category

Archived Post: Which CC License? Terms and Conditions?

Before we get started, Chris and I need to figure out what kind of Creative Commons License we want to use for this project. We also need to figure out what kinds of Terms and Conditions to ask contributors and participants to sign up to. Here’s the page that describes the six types of cc [...]

Where the idea came from

I read this article, ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ back in 2001 and have been obsessed by this story ever since.

Old Radicals

I’m interested in what happens to radicals – people who were politically active when they were young. What happens to these people, and their politics, when they get older? These days people who were involved in radical politics in the 1960s and 70s are publishing their memoirs; for the most part, these memoirists [...]

Experiments in Monetisation

One of the problems facing all writers who work in digital and multimedia projects where, to date, content has been available for free over the internet is this: how to make money from the creative use of new media. One of the aims of our other on-going project ‘Inanimate Alice’ is to find a [...]

Zombies and Mad Scientists

I’m interested in zombies. I’ve been interested in zombies for ages, ever since I saw ‘Dawn of the Dead’ back in the 1980s. I wrote a literary novel about a vampire, ‘Where Does Kissing End?’, and another novel about a witch, ‘Weird Sister’, and I’ve wanted to write about zombies for ages. Vampires are [...]