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With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books

5/12/2009 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. “If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” he said.

via With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com:

Whenever I hear Harlan Ellison’s name I see Hunter Thompson’s image.
What’s up with that?

The title of the article when you read it is Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web.

The title of the web page is With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books

In either case, I have a problem with the headline implications. People who shell out the money for an e-reader are unlikely to be “avoiding the cost” of buying electronic editions.

Petty theft? Probably. Piracy (for a profit)? Unlikely.

What really annoys me is the blurb from the email news from the NY Times

E-reader technology is making it easier to obtain and distribute copyrighted material on the Web for free.

How on earth does a Kindle make it easy to distribute material?

And here we are!

5/2/2009 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

And here we are!:

This is more than a little hypocritical of me, because I’m lousy about checking other people’s blogs. I’m told there’s a way to have blogs you like emailed directly to your Inbox so that you don’t have to go look every day to see if something new has been posted. Perhaps one of you know how to do that and could share the trick with the rest of us in a reply comment to this post?

(Via Musings.)

I’ll be helping Monique figure out how to cope in the land of feeds.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla – Dick Cavett Blog – NYTimes.com

11/15/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | 1 comment

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.

Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla – Dick Cavett Blog – NYTimes.com.

Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony!

10/28/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.

With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.

Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

Now this is small

3/10/2008 in Fun, Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Small, isn\'t it?

Quote of the Day

3/7/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

“We are from, not there!”

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1,000 True Fans

3/5/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Kevin Kelly — The Technium

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet – New York Times

2/12/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet – New York Times

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

Convert Posts to Pages

2/8/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

This is for Lance to use with MarsEdit

1. Create a draft post (on the server) with MarsEdit
2. In the Wordpress manage posts click on the convert link

Voila

I know – it is 2 steps, but it isn’t that hard at all

P2P Converter – convert posts to pages

You don’t *have* to make it a draft – publishing for a brief moment isn’t that big a deal, is it?

It’s kind of a pain if you want to keep track of pages and/or edit them once they are created, since MarsEdit is only dealing with “posts”.

The connection between MarsEdit and a WordPress blog is the MetaWeblog API. That doesn’t give any kind of fine-grained control.

Now if we could convince Red Sweater Software that “enhancing” MarsEdit to take advantage of the WordPress XML-RPC API would provide enough control to be able to use ME as a full “controller” application for WordPress blogs.

I already bought my copy of ME, but I would be willing to buy a new copy if it could do the full control of my WordPress blogs (posts and pages)

43 Folders: Hack your way out of writer’s block

9/8/2005 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

43 Folders: Hack your way out of writer’s block

Write from a persona – Lend your voice to a writing personality who isn’t you. Doesn’t have to be a pirate or anything—just try seeing your topic from someone else’s perspective, style, and interest.

number 16 is not for Christine ;-)

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