Privacy-issues

Tuesday News: Racism on the internet; CIA spying; and other self fulfilling things

Tuesday News: Racism on the internet; CIA spying; and other self fulfilling things

William Shatner calls out Reddit for racism and hate mongering – Reddit is a site that is full of the cutest cat and dog pictures, viral videos at their inception, and interesting question and answer sessions with famous people. Bill Gates was on the site yesterday during an Ask Me Anything where he admitted a(…)

Monday News: Grammatical mistakes that haunt you forever; First unsigned artist to hit #1; Google et al require warrants for email contents

Monday News: Grammatical mistakes that haunt you forever; First unsigned artist to hit #1; Google et al require warrants for email contents

Macklemore the first unsigned artist in modern history to hit #1 on U.S. Charts  – Macklemore first came to my attention when he did this great music video in support of the gay marriage effort in Washington. I watched “Thrift Shop” on YouTube and quickly forgot it. The other day it was playing on the(…)

Friday News: New crowdsourced publishing effort for YA reads; Congress works hard to erode privacy; Horrible people try to profit off the internet.

Friday News: New crowdsourced publishing effort for YA reads; Congress works hard to erode privacy; Horrible people try to profit off the internet.

Swoon Reads Introduces Crowdsourced Publishing Model – Macmillan is taking up where HarperCollins Inkpop left off. HarperCollins launched Inkpop in 2010 and invited writers to come and share their material with others. HarperCollins acquired at least one manuscript from the writers on Inkpop. HC sold Inkpop to Figment in 2012. For Macmillan, Swoon Reads invites(…)

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by users to keep their information(…)

Tuesday Midday Links: Dear Author’s New Design

Obviously we have a new look and feel to Dear Author. The design work was completed by Maili and it is based off a premium theme from WooThemes. Just the Web did some additional coding work. We’ve developed a couple of informational pages: For Readers/For Authors. Those are both in the development stage. One of(…)

Authors Guild Vies for Worst Publicity of 2009 (and other news)

Remember Authors’ Guild? You know, the entity that hauled Google into court so that it could create a settlement agreement granting Google a copyright monopoly that it hadn’t had previously so that AG could get a tiny piece of the Google pie?   Authors’ Guild, who allowed, as a part of the settlement terms that orphaned(…)

Amazon Defeats Dept of Justice Request for Customer Records

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(…)

Privacy and the Internet. Makes for Great Drama.

Jessica Cutler, blogger and author of the book, Washingtonienne, is embroiled in a lawsuit over privacy issues. One of the men with whom Cutler enjoyed a physical relationship and subsequently blogged about the details sued her for invasion of privacy. A case of first impression (as lawyers call legal issues for which there is no(…)