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Fiction House's Lily Renée is featured on Newsweek site

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Yoc:
Right.  I'm sure Roy is doing the best he can.  It is a pretty specific niche he's going after.
A few more million dollar sales might get people looking harder for info.

John C:
That's unfortunately the nature of the Internet, Jim.  For all the talk about automation, everything is still very much word-of-mouth unless you happen to be running one of the handful of sites that search engines use as a primary source for answers, like Wikipedia.  Google and company do nice work for what they do, but the fact remains that, if you don't know to ask the question, the answers are rarely forthcoming.

There are a bunch of sites I'd put on the list of "why wouldn't everybody know about this," like the Internet Archive; the Wayback Machine alone has helped me out more than a few times.  And sometimes someone'll try to take it upon himself to organize it all and curate the information, and...you end up with something like InfoChimps.org--which is nice, but itself obscure and incomplete, and suffers from the same information overload as the general case.

But then, you could say the same about books and magazines.  There's a ton of great stuff that's been published over the years that none of us has ever heard of (and with the decline of brick-and-mortar used book shops, the likelihood of stumbling on such a gem decreases, unfortunately, just like the website issue).

Ami_GFX:
Wow, thanks. What a good read.

And I googled "The Werewolf Hunters" and got it directly and found another good blog as well. This looks like the little red dress the article was talking about.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2008/03/number-276-spider-sorceress-heres.html

JVJ (RIP):
Right on every point, Jon,
but one just wants to think that people would take more responsibility for finding information. It is SO much easier now than it has ever been and don't we have a thread on DCM on how to find comic info on the Internet (important sites, etc.)? It just seems that people expect to be told what to do rather than have the the thrill (and expend the effort) of finding it themselves.

Wish there were better tools available to turn up these precious sites.

Still, I'm happy that they are there...

my 2¢
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John C:
I completely agree, but as with the thread...well, it's kind of the same situatiion, isn't it?  Unless you've been here from the beginning and saw it, would the "thread of useful links" be obvious?  I'm only asking that half-rhetorically.  The few forums I've participated in, over the years, I've been with from the launch, so I have no idea what it's like to be the "RTFM guy," so to speak.

I'm thinking about how to solve the problem, but it's quickly a closed loop.  Like, I'd gladly spearhead collaboration putting together a book for the community of where to find information and how to use it (there are tools I'm dying for an excuse to try out, actually), but...how does a user find the book, once it's written?  Write another book to tell people about it?  What does that proverbial bottom tortoise stand on, exactly?  It feels like you'd need to get George Lucas to digitally insert the directions into the next re-release of Star Wars or something, to get it in front of people...

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