The Here And Now

 As a follow-up to my earlier "actions introverts can take to fight for our human rights", I bring you the Extrovert Edition

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LJ Archivr project seamlessly archives public LJ Journals and Communities as local html files with intermediary links that allow the user to click and navigate back and forth through each post of the journal or community. Clean formatting is preserved using a consistent clean theme for all backups. In addition a spreadsheet inventory of all posts with time, date, poster, and number of comments per post is saved to a spreadsheet tab and can be converted to universal formats such as csv. The process is automated and very thorough. It will navigate through paginated pages of comments and even expand threaded comments to ensure all comments are captured. Does not require membership to the community (but it helps with downloads of community restricted content). Anyone interested feel free to contact the developer vidderkidder directly or if you know of anyone who would be interested feel free to share with them.

Requirements

• Desktop version Microsoft Excel
• Chrome
• Chrome extensions (tutorial video for how to download and install them)

You can download a trial version for free (just enter $0) - if it works please consider donating to iamavidder@gmail.com 

Download: https://vidder.gumroad.com/l/ljarchivr

brownbetty posted: Dreamwidth for mobile browsing

andraste posted: I Watched 'Our Flag Means Death' So You Don't Have To

"...but maybe you would like to! Perhaps you have also noticed fandom screaming about the new gay pirate romantic comedy in town and are curious? (That was me all of, uh, five days ago.) In case you have not: Our Flag Means Death is a gay romantic comedy on HBO/whatever streaming service you have that shows HBO shows in your country/the very thematically appropriate high seas of the internet. It is about about pirates who sometimes have the names of real historical people and sometimes resemble them extremely vaguely in other ways! It is very good and sweet and funny. But like most things, it is not for everybody. To find out if it is for you, there are some questions you should ask yourself..."

To preserve the history of vidding talk, we have created a static mirror of the old vidding Livejournal community. vidding_livejournal_ark2  is a static archive of posts made to the Livejournal vidding community. It will be updated a few times a year as long as the Livejournal-->Dreamwidth importer continues to work. Anyone can join but no new posts will be allowed as it is in archival status

dw_community_promo posted: The March Meta Matters Challenge Is Returning...

...for year 3! The marchmetamatterschallenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history.

While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site and collection host.

This will be a month-long event kicking off on March 1 with bi-weekly check-ins. March Meta Matters will close on April 1.

Find out more about the challenge through our introduction or the FAQ. Feel free to leave questions on either post.

 

dw_maintenance posted: (no subject)

We've received multiple reports of crossposting to LiveJournal silently failing, and many people have asked us about the problem. Unfortunately, the issue is not one that we can resolve: it happens when someone has automatic crossposting set up and has changed their LiveJournal password, but hasn't updated the password on their Dreamwidth crosspost settings. The number of failed logins trip LiveJournal's "attempted account hacking" detection system and our IP addresses are locked out from the site.

For a decade or so, when this happened, we were able to contact them and have them remove us from the lockout list manually and whitelist our IP address range so that it wouldn't happen again. At some point in the last several years, they switched to telling us that the blocking is automatic, they aren't able to whitelist any IPs manually, and that we were mistaken when we were able to resolve the issue for a decade by emailing them and having them whitelist us manually; by this point, they no longer respond to us at all about the issue. (The delay in our posting about the issue has been, once again, us attempting to contact them unsuccessfully and getting no reply.)

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viddingnews posted: Vidding News (and other miscellany)

Dec. 29th, 2021 01:35 pm

viddingnews posted: Vidding News (and other miscellany)

Dec. 15th, 2021 08:01 am

bonibaru posted: signal boost

Boosting the signal for RevelCon 32: calling for vids for the vidshow! Info here: https://revelcon.com/songvid-show

elf posted: Quis impeditur: Who is hindered?

Recently, Fanlore committee, volunteers, and the public have been discussing a photography policy; one of the issues is how to address privacy concerns when uploading photos. Blurring faces was suggested in the public discussions, and several people pointed out that there are free apps for smartphones and computers that can be used, and these are so easy to use that there's no reason not to require blurring. I disagree.

I'm going to use this example to touch on the wider topic of Fanlore accessibility and fannish accessibility in general.

 A few years back a friend created an RSS feed of fanvids that are posted to AO3. I forget how it was created. but if you are on Tumblr you can follow it here.  https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/tagged/ao3feed

If you are not on Tumblr this RSS feed URL might work:
http://fetchrss.com/rss/5c5b633c8a93f83c318b45675c5b63128a93f82f308b4567.xml

I do not maintain it so have no idea how it works, and it will pull in anything tagged video but I do get to see a lot of new vids this way.

Sometimes I feel like we are standing on a cliff and it has started crumbling at the edge.

And George is the only one who notices and pipes up: Hey everyone there's no guard rail. We could all fall down any second.  Should we put up a warning sign?

And everyone shouts: "For fucks sake George why is there no guard rail?! Why would you ever think just a sign is a good idea? Why didn't you suggest putting up the guard rail from the start!  In fact why are we standing on the edge of this cliff?   Whose idea was that!!! Was it YOURS GEORGE?"

George: Uh, okay? I think we all walked here together. So...anyone have a guard rail handy? And how far shall it go? And who will be installing it?

Everyone: (Screaming in frustration)

elf posted: Hello we're hiring! (click on the link for details, mainly tech jobs)

isis posted: vid nostalgia

It's been a while since I made a vid (9 years? Wow.) but now I'm starting to think that maybe I should get new vidding software (I don't have any on this computer) and play with vids again. It was exasperating, but it was fun, and there's nothing like the feeling of creating something from a spark of idea into a finished thing that sometimes other people like, too.

marthawellsMartha Wells posted: Virtual Event Next Week

So I just found out there is going to be a virtual event about me at the TAMU Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. It’s Wednesday September 29, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm CT.

It’s registration only, and limited to 260 Zoom attendees. Here’s the link for anyone interested: https://tamu.libcal.com/event/8351599

In 2010, I attended Vividcon a fan run vidding convention. It offered a 'swap table' where people could leave DVDs, CDs, books for free (a small donation to the convention to help pay for the free snacks was encouraged). That year someone left multiple data CDs with fanvids 

No one was interested so I gathered them up & brought them home. They were older fanvids - a few from 1996, most between 2002-2009. They were small in size & low resolution & some were from vidders who had already remastered them into larger and better online viewing 

In the early-mid 2000s online streaming was not feasible for many, so fanvids needed to be small in size and downloaded to computers to be watched. Fandoms included: Angel, Buffy, Dark Angel, Due South, Farscape, Firefly, Harry Potter, Highlander, Invisible Man, Lord of the Rings....

Queer As Folk (US), Sentinel, Slings and Arrows, Smallville, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Voyager, Star Wars, Stargate SG1, Witchblade, Xena 

I finally have a searchable index online so if you are one of the vidders, feel free to drop me a note for a copy of your older vids. Note that I am one person so if I get too many requests (unlikely but thought I'd mention it anyway) it may take awhile. https://zinedom.org/cd_spindle_fanvids/

The complete list of vidders is here. I The names are listed as they were stored on the data CDs, but I abbreviated last names on this page https://zinedom.org/vidders-vividcon-cd-spindles/

 Update for all fan #vidders. Starting July 23 unlisted videos that were uploaded before 2017 will be automatically set to private & current embedded links on AO3 or other sites will be disabled and can no longer be viewed by anyone except you.. If you want to keep your unlisted #fanvids accessible, you must opt out. https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/older_unlisted_update 

marchmetamatterschallenge posted: The March Meta Matters Challenge Is Returning!

festivids posted: Subtitles Tutorial - Media Subtitler

a tutorial on how to subtitle your vids using the free software DivXLand Media Subtitler!

escapade_con posted: Tech Information and Call for Volunteers [Escapade Con]

How do I connect to Escapade 31?
Our plans are to have panel conversations (video optional) on Zoom, text chat on Discord, video streaming on Vimeo, and the art show on Tumblr. If you have any concerns about accessing the virtual convention, we will be running a "test drive" session on Saturday afternoon before the convention (February 13) with activity on all platforms. You will be able to try out your system, and get live tech support from convention staff. We want everyone to be connected and confident before the convention launches on February 19.

Do I have to buy hardware or software?
No. All of the applications we are planning to use are free on the user's side. If you want to speak in panels (via Zoom) but your computer doesn't have a microphone, you can connect via phone or tablet. If you don't have a phone or tablet, you can still participate via text chat in Discord. If you want to show your face in Zoom, but your computer doesn't have a camera, you can use a tablet or smartphone.

How can I help?
Thank you for asking! If you're comfortable (or willing to get comfortable) with Zoom, we'd like to have a "tech mod" in each panel to watch the text chat, gather raised hands, etc. and pass that information to the rest of the mods. You'll be able to pick panels you wanted to attend anyway. If you help out at 4 or more panels, we'll refund your reg or credit it toward next year.

We will also be running a consuite channel, open during convention hours (or as long as we have someone to host it) as a place to hang out and chat with other fans. It should be pretty mellow. You don't even have to make cucumber sandwiches (unless you want to).

If either of these appeal to you, please email volunteer@escapadecon.net.

 As some of you may know, fanzine publisher Sasha Sokolnikov passed away a few weeks ago. Her husband, Mike Akers was very supportive of her fanzine publishing and even attended a convention with her (this may have been Revelcon). He would like to see her publishing efforts preserved so we are looking for copies of her fanzines. Note: some of these fanzines may have been planned, not published.