Apr 11 2013
Delete This When You’re Done: Snapchat and the Power of Deletion – This New Yorker article by Matt Buchanan on the future of privacy is thought provoking. With things like Google Glasses and Memoto that take videos and photos constantly of all your interactions (without the express permission of those whom you are recording), privacy(…)
Apr 3 2013
BlackBerry 10 tells your friends when you’re watching porn – Do you have one of the new Blackberry devices? Blackberry wanted to be social so by default the videos you watch and the music you listen to is automatically shared with your friends. Pay a quick visit to the BBM settings screen by swiping down(…)
Mar 13 2013
Harlequin sent me a press release that said announced a seven figure two “book” deal with Sylvia Day which will launch a new line of books, ‘Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin’. The two books are going to be titled, Afterburn (available August 15, 2013) and Aftershock (available November 15, 2013), which will feature(…)
Feb 19 2013
‘Die Hard’ Box Office Solid Over Presidents Day Weekend; ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Bombs – “Making a weak debut at No. 6 was the Warner Bros. teen fantasy “Beautiful Creatures,” which pulled in $7.5 million for the weekend and $10 million since opening Thursday. The movie is based on the first in the best-selling series about a(…)
Jan 17 2013
I am named in a terrible book – A person and his family hosted an author in his home overseas. The author wrote a book. The friend read it and was surprised to find himself and his family and their place of living subject to a negative portrayal. The person wrote to Salon. Cary Tenis(…)
Dec 11 2012
Yesterday was Ada Lovelace’s birthday and given her historical significance, it brought to mind the recent debate about women’s place in historical fiction. One reader shared with author Scott Lynch his dismay that Lynch would write about a wish fulfillment story featuring a black middle aged female pirate. Lynch profanely tells the reader that he(…)
Dec 6 2012
Twitter / HistoricPapers: @Amateur_Casual @JayneShrimpton … – This fantastic photo turned up in my twitter stream. It is a Victorian photograph. Historic Papers @amateur_casual @jayneshrimpton Not sure what decade this is from but possibly a close contender!? twitter.com/HistoricPapers… — Historic Newspapers (@HistoricPapers) December 5, 2012 Kindle FreeTime Unlimited – Have a kid who wants(…)
Nov 27 2012
Beware the False Privacy Notice Posted All Over Facebook – A fake copyright notice spread around Facebook yesterday claiming that under the “Berner Convention” if you declared your copyright over uploaded photos and facebook statuses, you would be able to prevent Facebook from reusing them without your permission. There is no Berner Convention, it’s the(…)
Nov 26 2012
Facebook Removes Risqué Photograph of Woman Showing an Elbow – A website posted a picture of a woman in a bathtub where only her head, shoulders and elbows could be seen. The picture was taken down by Facebook for indecency. (Of course, 12 Year Old Sluts is okay, but elbows are not). According to one(…)
Nov 22 2012
Black Friday / Cyber Monday Week – BN is offering the Nook Simple Touch at $59 in stores. Barnes & Noble Publisher cracks whip over ‘Fifty Shades’ spin-offs – This is rich. E.L. James and her French publishers are targeting spin offs. There may be a different copyright law in France but her editor calls(…)
Oct 1 2012
Cats Entertainment Watch The First Ever Internet Cat Video Festival Winner – I forgot to report on this. This piece was sent to me by reader Leslie. Someone organized a cat video festival and over 10,000 people attended to see awards handed out for the best cat videos on the internet. That’s some job creation(…)
Aug 10 2012
How a lying ‘social engineer’ hacked Wal-Mart – ” A Wal-Mart store manager in a small military town in Canada got an urgent phone call last month from “Gary Darnell” in the home office in Bentonville, Ark. Darnell told the manager Wal-Mart had a multi-million-dollar opportunity to win a major government contract, and that he(…)
Aug 9 2012
I feel for you Hitler, I really do. That said, my little index finger will be hovering over the buy button on the 12th. Ebooks: is it a genre thing? Definitely… – “But I do suspect that ebooks and the nature of ereading are changing the nature of popular narrative. Anything complex and lengthy – even(…)
Aug 1 2012
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson finds love with prince – Telegraph – “The former lover of, among others, Alexander Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough’s nephew, says aspiring princesses would be well advised to look to mainland Europe. “In European countries, there are more princes than dentists.”” Telegraph UK I thought this piece was kind of hilarious given how(…)
Jul 22 2012
The following is a summary of the data collected by Amazon, BN, Kobo, and Sony. According to the EFF charts compiled in 2010, the safest way to read is to download books to Adobe Digital Editions because ADE does not track your reading habits. Your purchasing data, however, is still compiled by the various(…)
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