Comments on: Daily Links Round Up – Plagiarism Edition

By: evie byrne

evie byrne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:46:01 +0000

For deeply geeky reasons I cannot explain to even to myself, I want that axe. Good thing I’ve started a fantasy.

Congrats to Brent Weeks on his axe. I’m going to check out The Way of Shadows.

By: JodyS

JodyS — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:30:39 +0000

I always read dedications in romances (and in other books) – they can be as good as chatty footnotes for ~~gossip~~ general information.

By: joanne

joanne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:38:21 +0000

I’ve never ever had a desire to be a writer but man oh man I love & covet the axe that comes with the Gemmel Fantasy award.

What is with Apple and their restrictions for applications? Is it the companys’ moral decision and/or a business choice about who they target as their customer?

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:23:16 +0000

Not surprised at the teens reading newspaper numbers either. Here in Toronto, we get two free daily newspapers–The Metro and 24. Not the full horse n pony show like a regular newspaper, just bits and bites on local/national/internation news/sports/entertainmetn, etc. Still you’ll find a number of highschool/post-secondary kids with their ipods on and their noses buried in a copy of either paper while on the bus/subway.

By: Ann Bruce

Ann Bruce — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:04:46 +0000

Apple reversed its position on the porn app.

By: Linda Winfree

Linda Winfree — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:56:46 +0000

On the teens and newspapers item . . . I’m not surprised. While I don’t subscribe at home anymore (I can read the local paper online and then I pick up my national/world news online as well), my students love reading the newspaper (I teach 9th and 11th grade English). We participate in the Newspapers in Education program, in which the local paper donates so many free copies daily to our school. The kids like to look for weird news, catch up on the sports articles, etc. They read online material, but generally it’s not news.

Lin