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December 16, 2016

Friday News: Tech edition, more or less

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican Association of Publishers / anthropology / copyright / Facebook / fake news / privacy / security / Verizon / YahooComments Off on Friday News: Tech edition, more or less

Facebook amps up ‘fake news’ antidotes. Plus: fact-checkers! – It’s kind of sad when a major feature of news coverage about Facebook’s approach to the “fake news” problem is the company’s turn to human fact-checkers rather than pure tech. Although I think it’s good news that the company does not appear ... more >

October 10, 2016

Monday News: On Columbus, Yahoo is anti-male?; we are all Tsundoku; and best fantasy series?

JanetPublishing Newsbest of lists / Columbus Day / discrimination / Fantasy / Indigenous People's Day / Japanese / languages / lawsuit / Yahoo6 Comments

Use This New Book Excerpt to Shut Down the Fake Heroism of Christopher Columbus – Do they still teach US school kids the rhyme that starts, “In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”? The reality is that one of Columbus’s first observations about the Arawak people was that ‘they would make good ... more >

September 30, 2016

Friday News: Yahoo hack, NBF’s 5 Under 35, Library of a Lifetime contest, and DA wins the Golden Apple

JanetPublishing NewsATT / debut authors / Golden Apple Award / National Book Foundation / online security / readers contest / Yahoo11 Comments

Yahoo hack: It’s not just Verizon. AT&T should be worried too – Out of what is being called “the biggest hack ever,” (500 million accounts!) the interconnected nature of Internet companies is also being revealed. And for some AT&T customers, it seems particular unfair, because they don’t even have Yahoo email ... more >

July 28, 2016

Thursday News: Verizon + Yahoo, Romance for Libertarians, and Alice in Wonderland

JanetPublishing NewsAlice in Wonderland / Disney / FCC / libertarianism / Verizon / Yahoo2 Comments

Verizon’s Yahoo Buy May Spark FCC Privacy Scrutiny – An interesting take on the acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon. The $4.8 billion deal is likely to be approved without much difficulty, experts claim, but the nature of the acquisition – that an ISP is acquiring such a data-rich resource – is likely ... more >

May 11, 2015

Monday News: Netflix objects to AT&T deal, relocating stories, Amazon publishing’s growth, and Yahoo sues ex-employee over book

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anti-trust / ATT / confidentiality / DirectTV / ereaders / FCC / GPS / lawsuit / Netflix / publishing / Yahoo9 Comments

Why Netflix Wants The AT&T/DirecTV Merger Killed – With the AT&T – DirectTV merger moving closer to reality, Netflix has filed a brief with the FCC, claiming that if it succeeds, the merger will give AT&T too much power over its competition (i.e. Netflix), and, more important, that AT&T will ... more >

December 19, 2014

Friday News: Pricing, licensing, cross-genre writing, and national propagandizing

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / censorship / creative commons / films / Flickr / Free Speech / Macmillan / Serials / Sony / Yahoo1 Comments

A Message From John Sargent – I do so look forward to John Sargent”s public missives. It’s good to know all the entities we should blame – except Macmillan, of course, which is full of integrity and the best interests of “authors, illustrators, and agents” (but not readers, apparently), for ... more >

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