asshat
Using Twitter to promote your novel wrong
UPDATE: Fixed dick quote attribution. I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats Read more…
intellectual property
If you thought the last way to save newspapers was stupid
You will love this. And I quote: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to Read more…
intellectual property
Just because it’s Wikipedia don’t mean it’s not plagiarism
A new plagiarism story is afoot on the web seeing light in many places. Author Chris Anderson writes about the web, and web marketing. He is one who you expect to be savvy about things like social networking, open source, Read more…
internet
So I need to explain why this is a bad idea
The Dutch government wants to tax the internet to fund print media. To put a finer point on it, the Dutch have come up with the swell idea that the way to save print journalism is to tax another, different, Read more…
asshat
Publishing is not a Zero-Sum game
But an asshat named Robert Stanek seems to think otherwise. This gentleman appears to think that anyone’s success comes at the expense of his own career. I’ve heard of misguided authors trying to game Amazon to pump up their own Read more…
wtf
A new era for conspiracy, take II
So on June 3rd, a couple of unidentified men who were allegedly Japanese nationals were arrested by the Italian police crossing into Switzerland with what appeared to be $134.5 billion dollars in U.S. Treasury Bonds. The men were subsequently released Read more…
politics
Question to my Liberal friends.
I’m not going to rant about this, because it was pretty damn obvious what was going on as it happened. However, as a little bit a hypothetical I want to ask you the following: Let’s just say our last president Read more…
appearances
The children did not eat me
All in all the class yesterday was a success, I manged to avoid choking, and I actually interacted with human beings who did not exist when I started writing professionally. More important, I think I did manage to get a Read more…