Sep 30 2009
I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. Pocket Books will focus solely [...]
Mar 10 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Since January, there has been a discussion of race percolating within the online science fiction community. With all discussions of race, this one got heated. Will Shetterly, a pillar of the science fiction community, part of what I would term the old guard, outed a livejournal member who argued [...]
Jan 15 2009
Six degrees of separation theory was a fraud. Stanley Milgram, a controversial psychologist, coined this term after asking “people to give a letter to other people they knew by name, then he tracked how long it took for each letter to end up in the hands of a person the original sender didn’t know in [...]
Jul 25 2008
MPD Enforcer 2.0 is a blog about the Memphis Police Department and run by an anonymous blogger. The blog has been critical of the MPD, citing examples of sexual harassment and prisoners’ rights violations. The MPD would like to shut down the blog and has filed a lawsuit and subpoenaed the information from AOL. Those [...]
Nov 29 2007
I’ve been critical of the Amazon’s intention to spy on its Kindle customers, but it is nice to hear that whatever information it is gathering, it will try to keep it private. An investigation was undertaken by the federal government of Robert B. D’Angelo, culminating in a grand jury indictment against him for not accurately [...]
Nov 1 2007
The great thing about being a children’s celebrity is that you can act like a jerk and the majority of your fans aren’t going to be the least bit aware. Rowlings non stop attempts to prevent anyone from doing anything that remotely resembles her work is becoming tiresome. Last month, news of JK Rowling’s lawsuit [...]
Oct 23 2007
This is the second part in How to Fling About Legal Insults Like a Lawyer. One of the questions last week wondered whether free speech was simply unfettered. Absolutely not and I don’t mean for this series to imply that, but I do know that over the space of a year and a half, I’ve [...]
Oct 1 2007
A Slashdot reader noticed that in section 5 of the Terms of Service agreement between AT&T and its DSL subscribers, AT&T reserves the right to terminate or suspend service if tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries. As Ars Technica writer Ken Fisher ruminated, it is doubtful [...]
Sep 7 2007
The FEC issued two rulings last week that exempt Bloggers from FEC restrictions identifying bloggers as media-like and thus entitled to similar First Amendment protections. Complaints in front of the Federal Election Commission accused bloggers of being shills for political campaigns and thus should be subject to the federal election rules. The Daily Kos was [...]
Aug 15 2007
With the third co-defendant taking a plea (likely in exchange for testimony against Michael Vick, the embattled Atlanta Falcons quarterback is said to be working out a plea deal with the federal government. Vick, for those who aren’t following this story, was charged with engaging in a dog fighting conspiracy. The allegations in the indictment [...]
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