The LIEF Erikson as a Fanzine

Why would anyone be interested in a Trekie's Blog? Well it's not your normal Blog. You won't find out how I feel this morning, have to wade through teenage angst about how my friends don't understand me or listen to rants about the quality of coffee in Starbucks. So what is in them? ...

• The LIEF Press
  My Fan Fiction Printing House. Major series include
• "Tales of Death and Honour"
• "Lima Echo One".


• The LIEF Erikson
  My editorial Blog. Comment and views, mostly to do with Star Trek and SF&F but rambling across the whole range of my interests as the whim takes me.


• Treknology Today
  The home of my quarterly articles about Treknology in the modern world and regularly updated posts of new paper models of Trek subjects.


• LIEFCon LaunchLog
  Keep up to date with this monthly column on the latest launches ... and the latest paper models of the spacecraft that are making the news.


• 3D Science
  A monthly column featuring specific hands-on scientific projects available on the Web, catering to all ages and experience levels.


• Sci Station Canada
  Science news from and about Canada


• Sci Station Aus
  Science news and comment from Australia


• The Hypothetical LIEF
  Philosophy and Logic, Trek-style. Well, what would you do if ...

In keeping with my exploration of the limits of what can be done with a Blog I've added a Mailing List function. Now you need never miss any of my world shattering Blog entries!

OK, meglamania aside, some of my blogs have proven to be quite popular and hopefully useful to Trek fans and the public at large. For example, the "Trek in Paper" posts on Treknology Today are started at the beginning of each month and added to as I find papermodels of Trek subjects. You could follow the Blog by RSS but if I have it correctly it will only register when a new post has against an updated post.

I have created two Yahoo! Groups as Mailing Lists - The Daily LIEF and The Weekly LIEF. Whenever I put something new on one of my Blogs I will post a 1-2 line notice & link on "The Daily LIEF" group which will be sent out to anyone who has subscribed.

Now I will be the first to point out that this will be *way* too much for the casual reader - not even my kids are that interested in everything I have written! Even the Weekly LIEF (which summarises the posts for the week) could end up just being just another In-Box stuffer. With this in mind, I have created "The Monthly LIEF" so that in the first week of each month I will send out a cummulative post summarising my Blog posts for the previous month.

Also at the end of that first week I will have available for download my Fanzine "The LIEF Erikson" which will be an accumulation of the full Blog entries in a printable (pdf) format for those of you who want something to leaf through over your morning coffee.

Taking into consideration privacy concerns, I have set the Group Web Tools so that it is a one way flow from me-to-you. For example Members can download Files/Photos, view Links and calendar or database items and partake in Polls. They can't upload files or photos, create Polls, or add to the database, calendar or links. I've left the Chat function open (although I've never known anyone to use it) but most importantly of all the Members list cannot be viewed by anyone other than the List owner.