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October 29, 2015

Thursday News: SXSW, Microsoft, Disney, and the best meditation ever

JanetPublishing NewsApple / Disney / Gamergate / macabre comedy / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments

Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >

October 27, 2015

Tuesday News: Penny books, iPhones & warrants, SXSW struggles with speech, and visualizing poetry

JanetPublishing NewsApple / booksellers / federal law / Free Speech / Gamergate / harassment / iPhone / poetry / SXSW / used books / visual arts / warrant8 Comments

A Penny for Your Books – I’ve actually always thought of these books as $4.00 books, because while they technically sell for a penny, Amazon’s $3.99 shipping effectively makes them $4.00. What I did not know, though, is that these books are basically picked from garbage. How brilliant is that?! It’s ... more >

January 27, 2015

Tuesday News: Indie bookstores & digital books, Anita Sarkeesian’s new year, oral histories of Auschwitz, and optical illusion paintings

JanetPublishing NewsArt / Auschwitz / bookstores / digital books / Gamergate / gender / harassment / History / Kobo / Misogyny / optical illusions / oral history / print books / representation / World War II2 Comments

Mixed Results for Bricks-and-Mortar Stores with Digital Content – Many independent bookstores have been making a comeback, in large part from the strength of print books. However, according to this article, when it comes to digital, the brick and mortar bookselling industry has not figured out exactly what their place ... more >

January 26, 2015

Monday News: Wikipedia v. feminism, Cara McKenna on author earnings, funny FSOG video, and romance flowchart

JanetPublishing Newsauthors / earnings / feminism / Fifty Shades / Gamergate / genre / Misogyny / publishing / Romance / Wikipedia11 Comments

Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate – This story was originally published in a media outlet I refuse to link to in the DA news anymore, but Gawker and several other sites have the basic facts (which, of course, are disputed in comments, especially at Pando ... more >

October 31, 2014

Friday News: Scientist sues “American Hustle” filmmakers, Colbert mocks Gamergate, men and contraception, and some Halloween reading

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / contraception / defamation / Gamergate / gender / Halloween / harassment / lawsuit / Misogyny / Satire4 Comments

‘American Hustle’ Sued by Microwave Expert … The Movie Nuked My Reputation! – Sooooo, if you’ve ever seen the movie “American Hustle,” you likely remember the scene where Jennifer Lawrence’s character passive aggressively blows up their microwave by trying to cook food in a metal pan. When her husband laments ... more >

October 29, 2014

Wednesday News: Twitter tinkers with timelines, Adobe clarifies views on Gamergate, book option deals, and does reading affect relationships

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / algorithms / Facebook / film adaptation / Gamergate / reading / Relationships / timeline / Twitter39 Comments

If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with its anticipated move to algorithmically filtered timelines. Ironically, this change seems to privilege intermittent ... more >

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