10 month ago
deusx : Ficly - A better, shorter story - "We believe in the art of creating stories and the craft of sharing them. We are inspired by the written word and the authors that link words and phrases together to form tales. Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative enviro
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deusx : welcome to the ficlets memorial « the ficlets memorial - "ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will
Simon Willison : ficlets memorial - ficlets memorial. Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway.
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deusx : Ficly: Live After Ficlets :: UltraNormal - "Like a phoenix from the ashes, something new is in the process of being born. I give you ficly."
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deusx : WWdN: In Exile: ficlets is going to the land of wind and ghosts. here's how to save your stories. - "AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising th
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deusx : Ficlets Will Be Shut Down Permanently - People Connection Blog: AIM Community Network - "Dear Ficlets user, We're sorry to inform you that on Jan. 15, 2009, Ficlets will be shut down permanently. Though you will be able to read and write ficlets until this date, we urge you to save your works immediately. Since each ficlet is rel
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26 month ago
deusx : Ficlets | The Insurgenceez Haz Beginned - "I haz wordz now. You no more put kitteh in bukkit! Kitteh put you in bukkit!"
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33 month ago
deusx : Fiction Writing 2.0: Six New Ways To Write The Next Great Novel - "Below we'll explore some start ups that take creative writing into the Web 2.0 era."
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36 month ago
deusx : Fear of XSLT | dev.aol.com - "XSLT has always amazed me. And to see that it can be used to scrape Ficlets.com -- which indeed was intentionally designed to enable its web pages to be an API -- makes me realize that XSLT could become an incredibly valuable tool in the Web's future."
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37 month ago
Simon Willison : Ficlets - Ficlets. AOL’s first application to launch on Rails, and their first application to accept OpenIDs as well as AOL screen names. [via]
deusx : Ficlets | Welcome to Ficlets! - "A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."
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