I have recently started linking noteworthy posts made by authors on Reddit. You can view the picks here along with my comments. Check it out and if you like what you see help evangelize Science Fiction on the blogosphere by giving content that you think is worthy a thumbs up by hitting the up arrow to the left of the post.

On the unintentional fubar front I did accidentally delete the entire blog database (all posts, links, settings etc. etc.) earlier on today by accident, but luckily I’d just backed it up. Jose didn’t notice and I have no real reason to tell him, but I figure since I just spent the entire evening fixing his computer and re-installing Windows he won’t kill me if I confess.

O.K After much debugging and almost killing the blog a couple of times I think I’ve got this all figured out. Now once again I need the help of our international readership to tell me if this actually works in the way I think it should.

Apologies to anyone (especially if you read via Rss) who’s been presented with various errors and time outs today. I’ve been trying to get a clever little plugin that lets me add links automatically to work, and had it all set up until I tried to get rid of a very minor bug, namely an extra space after each link.

O.K. This is going to sound a bit weird but I’m playing with an extremely complicated bit of code to do something extremely simple. Basically I’m going to be putting “buy this book” links to Amazon into the posts when we interview authors, but since our audience is split between the US and the UK I want Brits to be directed to Amazon.co.uk and Americans to Amazon.com, everyone else will also end up at Amazon.com I’m afraid.

We kick the week off with an interview with Paul Hartzog about Panarchy theory which he is a primary developer of. He contributes to Smart Mobs and also blogs at Panarchy. We get his take on a few issues with respect to share and sharing alike.

Apologies to any of you who may have visited rectly only to discover that Meme Therapy has turned into a single scary looking block of text, but we’re going to be migrating over to our own domain over the next couple of days and so I’ve been importing the posts into wordpress.

Rosie and I were just talking about advanced forms of viral mimetics delivered through the internet just before I got hit by one. It’s a pass along book quiz. Velcro City Tourist Board tagged me with a post titled When book memes attack!. The idea is a bit cheesey but I couldn’t resist:

Today we interview The Guardian’s Technology editor Charles Arthur on the Free Our Data campaign, aimed at persuading the British government to stop charging for non personal data collected at the taxpayers expense. To read the original article that started the campaign go here. (link)

Hal Duncan is a Scottish writer author whose debut novel Vellum has been generating a lot of very good buzz lately. He was kind enough to oblige us an interview. Enjoy.

Our Brain Parades have been attracting a lot of links lately and commentary elsewhere in the blogosphere. Thanks for that guys we’re really appreciative of the links and the comments. In the future however if you’re going to comment on one of our Brain Parades on your blog why not send me a heads up via email so I can add a link to your commentary in the Brain Parades Related section.

Today we pick David Louis Edelman’s brains. He’s the author of the brand spanking new novel Infoquake (link) an active blogger who maintains his own blog (link) and also has his fingerprints on Deepgenre (link) and SFnovelists (link)

You’ve probably noticed that blogging Canadian SF writers are overepresented here. Well that trend continues. Today I bring you Mark Rayner a hilarious blogger and new kid on the block in the Canadian SF scene. His debut novel is Amadeus Net, you can read more about it here (link) Here’s our exchange:

We’ve resolved not to make a meal out of links posts. There’s other guys doing a great job and we doubt we could do better. However I do spend a lot of time on author’s blogs and thought it might be an idea to specialize and do the odd links posts highlighting my favourite posts there. So here goes:

Just a quick note to say yahoo! Rosie, Charlie and I have just moved into a nice new flat. So the Meme Therapists are now all under one roof. We don’t have furniture or broadband yet but as soon as we do the podcast (link) starts up again.

We kick the week off with an interview with Science Fiction writer David Moles. He’;s been in some of our Brain Parades and he also maintains a blog (link). You can read more about David along with links where you can read some of his work online here (link).

There’s a really cheesey site where you can find out what kind of Science Fiction writer you are. I gave it a shot and I got a writer descibed as a “A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing.” Kind of appropirate considering that there hasn’t been a Meme Therapy entry for six days. If you want to take the cheesy test yourself you can here (link).