Quickly, Now
Before I have to clear out of here to make a Friday-afternoon flight.
- Jim Zub’s Makeshift Miracle resumes from hiatus today, until October at least. If you haven’t been reading, get started on that.
- Matthew Inman gets some props from Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich of RadioLab in an interview over at The AV Club. Said props are specifically on the topic of murdershrimps, but the interview itself is a nice meditation on the nature of creativity and creative partnerships.
- Hiveworks continues its rapid expansion with the addition of Hurricane Erika’s Oh Joy, Sex Toy. A long time ago I wrote about a theoretical webcomics support-services provider that I termed Aduz; today in addition to Hiveworks and its hosting/advertising gigs, you have TopatoCo’s curated merch-handling, Make That Thing’s Kickstarter-wrangling, Blind Ferret staking out a spot between HW and The Big T, Breadpig expanding from mostly publishing-related ventures into Kickstarter sherpa services, and the ever-present George. Aduz is here, service providers keep growing to fill the need, and here’s hoping they manage their growth smartly so as not to overextend beyond capacity¹. Exciting times.
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¹ TopatoCo are the masters at this; I’d estimate they could be at least 30% larger than they are right now, but only by doing a crappier, less-fun-for-them job, which is something they are not willing to do. If every company took that as a model, the economy would be a lot stronger and going to a job that required pants wouldn’t suck so much.
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