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...always known that it’s been there,” Brine said. “We have the ability to score five goals a game, and it was nice to have people stepping up and putting the puck away.”This recent run of success bodes well for Harvard, which is just three points out of first place in the ECAC but faces some of the toughest teams in the nation in the coming weeks.“I think we’ve made great strides, especially over exam period,” Brine said...
...frontrunner for Ivy Player of the Year with another astounding 27 point, six rebound, four-assist performance, but the team still fell.To give Lin some help, Amaker may have found the solution in playing freshman point guard Oliver McNally with Housman more often in the rotation. The two had success playing together on Saturday, before McNally suffered a mild ankle sprain with five minutes to play and failed to return until the final minute.In his absence, Housman dominated, as he always does against the Tigers. Just two years ago, he posted one of the best performances in Crimson history, scoring...
Unlike audiobooks, novel podcasts are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters. While successful authors pitch their works on their own Web sites, many newer writers are posted on Podiobooks.com. Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45,000 episodes are downloaded each day. The success of novels is democratically decided: word of mouth leads to more downloads. Voluntary donations to authors (the web site keeps 25%, with the rest going to the writer) are another indicator an author's popularity. In the future, Terra sees authors...
...Sigler's and Hutchins' success, there are critics who downplay the significance of their "pioneering" work. When serving as vice president of the Science Fiction Writers of America two years ago, author Howard Hendrix, in a blog, dubbed these authors "webscabs" who are turning the role of writer into a "pixel-stained Technopeasant wretch." (Hendrix later admitted, in a "debate" with Sigler in Sept. 2007 in San Franciscio, that his comments were "incendiary," but also said, "In the long run, what you may end up with is a vast digital slush pile" and "a mass of novels written...
Sigler heard the doubts from his first agent, who told him it was a mistake to release his works for free despite finding great success with Earthcore, which helped him land his publishing contract. "The condescension comes from people who fully embrace the existing structure," Sigler, 39, said in a telephone interview. "To hear these arrogant, frustrated authors, that's what fuels my opinion that these people are dinosaurs." Meawhile, Sigler says, putting his work out for free helps him "prove to the fans that I am worth their money before they even spend a penny...