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Tor.com launched yesterday.  Here’s my general impression:

It’s a great collection of science fiction and fantasy art.
It’s the beginning of a great collection of fiction.
It’s a promising blog.
It’s a mediocre discussion board.
It’s a social networking site, which is somewhat annoying.

All of this is not surprising.  Tor is a traditional publisher, so their site works extremely well [...]

I wrote a couple months ago about the Tor promotion “Watch the Skies” and since then, I’ve managed to collect 20 or so free ebooks (of which I’ve read 20 or so pages.)  There has been an interesting internet discussion about whether or not giving away these ebooks has actually helped the sales of the [...]

I was recently tasked with setting up a web site for the Final Gravity Craftbrewers club, in particular so that we would have a site set up in time for an upcoming Strong Ale Competition.  The new site can be found here.  Obviously, we’re still lacking content but this basic framework took about 2 hours [...]