MichiganFandom Streaming Video

Testing - testing - is this thing on?
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Thanks to donations of both equipment and bandwidth, we are making inroads on doing a fannish video channel. Right now our site features video streams that should open above right away in flip4Mac or Media Player 11. You might have to twiddle your ActiveX or script permissions for this page if prompted.

For people who can't seem to make that work, try one of the links below - sound quality can't be guaranteed, though, because your flavor of music player might not like what we're slapping together. We tried...

The sound track is normally our RFF audio feed, and our new media channel will have the added feature of live commentary and scheduled programming. We're pretty proud to offer this. If you want us to feature or schedule your material, give us a jingle at michiganfandom-owner at yahoogroups.com and we'll get back to you instantly.

The ConUtopiaN is Compiling Submissions

The ConUtopiaN officially launches Dec 1st, 2006. There are several ways to contribute:

1)join MichiganFandom, a fandom related forum at Yahoo Groups. Essays and rants posted there can appear in ConUtopian but only if you let them. If we like it, we'll ask you first. Pictures are ok when attached (Don't send more than two) but don't specify any custom positioning. We honor all requests to remove pics with no questions asked.

fiction.michiganfandom.org -- Submit fiction up to 400 words. email sanctuarypress at gmail.com
reviews.michiganfandom.org -- Reviews can be ANY length. Commentary has a minimum word length of 400 words. If you have lots of reviews, submit them at sanctuarypress at gmail.com until we cave in and let you post directly.

comment.michiganfandom.org -- Essay material posted to the zine must first fit the guidelines of the michiganfandom community. They know what they like. Join them and you'll know.

news.michiganfandom.org -- Trivia and Event info: Any event that happens regularly will be added as a resource link. Your content info must be provided by that event's organization and NOT a personal email address. For that matter, sending a submission implies that you are the copyright holder of the information and/or are not voluntarily infringing on anyone's rights by supplying this to us. Likewise we make the very same claim on our zine and disclaim any ability to remove info found to be otherwise.

Any questions? email us: sanctuarypress at gmail.com ! IMPORTANT - include an email address in the BODY of your message or it will automatically be dropped as spam.

Radio Free Fandom Online

If screen is black, it's night time in Michigan ;)
If it's blue, I'm not dressed yet.RFF is also streaming - most of the time - on our Video feed.

OmegaCon Recordings:

OmegaCon 1 in Birmingham Alabama provided panel recordings that will air all this week at 8pm on the radio channel.

8pm EST Tuesday March 18 M Keaton and Chris Jackson 'Crackpot Science' Omegacon 2008

8pm EST Wednesday March 19 Wandering Men at OmegaCon 2008 -Interview with WANDERING MEN, a crew of writers for the D20 game systems designers DARK QUEST GAMES who have started a book series together. They happily sat down with me on Saturday and talked about their unique collaboration.

8pm EST Thursday March 20 I will present the panel 'Why use Pseudonyms' featuring authors Mike Resnick, Louise Marley and Anne Aguirre .

8pm EST Friday will feature "Reading like a Editor" (sic) with Julie Cochrane, Jackie Gamber, Baen Editor Jim Minz, local Michigan editor William Jones, and MKeaton filling in. (sound here is a little twitchy because they were at a long table)

**You'll know you're in the right place when you hear a bagpipes rendition of the Star Wars theme, performed live at Omegacon Friday night**

8pm EST is designated the Fannish Hour of Power, which I'll reserve for interviews from here on in. We're filling schedule slots as we get contributions and so far it works well. Sometime this week I will have MP3 of all this in a podcast index.

I have about five episodes of Omegacon material to feature, and after airing them we'll see what the 8pm slot will have for us in the future.

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RadioFreeFandom started as Radio Free ConFusion, a LPFM station that took to the airwaves at 88.1MHz FM in January 2001 at ConFusion in Troy Michigan. Its direct descendant, RADIO FREE FANDOM, is now broadcasting on the internet and occasionally records and broadcasts from one or another SF/F convention in Metro-Detroit.

Original Material Teleplays debuted at ConFusion 2001 included Nick Pollotta's Einstein and Carstairs, Gianni Bubonic, Clif Flynt's Merry Mischief at Miskatonic, When Muppets Attack, as well as several short stories - sprinkled in with a mix of random fannish music, Old Time Radio and live adlib antics.
RFF live is currently down for service over New Years.

Til then, listen in on our aircheck circa 2001. It's specially formulated not to choke your computer at DSL speeds.

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Michigan Fandom Version History

A Chronology of 'MichiganFandom' online

Before 1999, MichiganFandom as we know it was a social network on eCircles.com (a dot-com crash casualty) and Shameless Self Promotions, a webpage that offered web art to fans between conventions. Events between conventions were either Pinatariders Drunken Costumer Convergences - mostly in Port Huron Michigan, or Arbornet meetups to sing Karaoke in Ann Arbor.

In March of that year, the common denominator in these two semi-regular happenings, an ex-IS guy turned SF writer named FREON, invited a bunch of fen friends to join him on a ONElist.com mailing list in search of more members who could tolerate that high-falutin' new-fangled flavor email with rich text and attachments. That list has evolved into everything you see here today.

1.999.03
- list: michiganfandom@ONElist.com
1.999.10
- Pinata Page on Shameless Self Promotions (Pinatariders Website)
1.999.??
- import email base from eCircles to michiganfandom@ONElist.com
1.999.11
- ONElist consolidated with eGroups
1.999.??
- spinoff: pinatariders.org (Melissa Owsley)

2.000.01
- Meetup: Karaoke at ConFusion 19100 (First Michiganfandom sponsored event)

2.000.04
- ConTraption 2000 canceled. Michigan Fandom comforts the refugees.

2.000.06
- eGroups becomes Yahoo! Groups
- First MichiganFandom Monthly Meetup (First event outside conventions)
2.000.08
- list: added Radio Free ConFusion
2.001.04
- eCircles abruptly disappears. 41 PinataRiders SubCult members vaporized.
- original sponsor and content provider themestream.com implodes.
- expanded Radio Free ConFusion to RFF with plans for ConClave.
2.002.02
- spinoff: Radio Free Fandom site (Malcolm Cleveland)
2.004.02
- list: AscentStage
2.004.03
- list: SanctuaryPress
- list: Mission Bonaventure PBEM
2.005.03
- list: Penguicon Writing Workshop (now SPWWCORE)
2.005.06
- spinoff: ascentstage.net, added Sanctuary Press sponsor for 1 year
2.006.09
- spinoff:Radio Conclave online (now RadioFreeFandom online)
2.007.01
- opened submissions for ConUtopian
- list: Tour de Nocturne costumers
2.008.01
- spinoff: Michiganfandom.org
- RadioFreeFandom goes 24-7 for WMP and iTunes
2.008.02
- spinoff: Sanctuary Press Workshop (freon)

-=Hotline For Wayward Souls=-

1-800-968-1498 - Travelers info for our MF fen nationwide - use this login:

travelers@michiganfandom.org