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December 13, 2016

Tuesday News: AI & storytelling, the dangerous apology, 100 strangers write a book, and more bookish gifts

JanetPublishing Newsdefamation / gifts / lawsuits / storytelling / technology / writing a book5 Comments

Spoiler Alert: Artificial Intelligence Can Predict How Scenes Will Play Out – Although still at a very early stage, this technology is a step forward in the ability for machines to predict how a scene will play out, which has implications for everything from automatic video tagging in Facebook to self-driving ... more >

December 12, 2016

Monday News: Romance survey, Adblock Plus unblocked in Germany, history of women composers, and bookish kid gifts

JanetPublishing Newsad blockers / children / female composers / Germany / gifts / lawsuits / research / Romance survey2 Comments

Survey Time! – Donna Marie Hanson has asked us to post the link to two surveys she has put together as part of her dissertation research (at the University of Canberra) on popular Romance novels. I have not looked at either survey myself, yet, so I cannot provide any details beyond what ... more >

December 23, 2015

Wednesday News: Defying convention and the gift of reading

JanetPublishing Newsgender / gender fluidity / gifts / identity / marriage / polyamory / reading / Sphinx / The Argonauts8 Comments

2015: The Year an “Orgy of Specificity” Revitalized Romance – Judy Berman’s contemplation of her favorite romance of the year: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, becomes a launching pad from which she discusses the construct of identity, as books like Nelsons, and Ann Garétta’s Sphinx defy gender constructions and conventions to deliver what ... more >

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