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Roger Morris

The Easiest Way To Earn From Your Books - 1 views

Being a book author, I already know that I could not easily get rich with this career because it takes time to have my books sold. Good thing that I have learned about Kindle Book Publishing and I ...

started by Roger Morris on 15 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Roger Morris

Successfully Launched My writer Career… Thanks John - 1 views

I want to express my gratitude to John who helped me become the writer I want to be. Before meeting him, I thought that I was born to be a novel writer and I almost believed it after receiving 400 ...

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Katherine Chipman

Hard Times - 0 views

  • Published in weekly parts Apr 1854 - Aug 1854
  • Hard Times -  Published in weekly parts Apr 1854 - Aug 1854
  • Dismissed initially as "sullen socialism", the novel gained new life with F.R. Leavis' positive critical treatment in The Great Tradition (1948). Leavis considered Hard Times Dickens' "masterpiece" and "his only serious work of art". Since then it has been one of Dickens' best-sellers, widely taught in schools
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  • Dismissed initially as "sullen socialism", the novel gained new life with F.R. Leavis ' positive critical treatment in The Great Tradition (1948). Leavis considered Hard Times Dickens' "masterpiece" and "his only serious work of art". Since then it has been one of Dickens' best-sellers, widely taught in schools ,
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    It is interesting that Hard Times was published in parts over a 4 month period.
Bri Zabriskie

About Us (Open Library) - 0 views

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    This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.
Gideon Burton

Publish your computer code: it is good enough : Nature News - 0 views

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    open software development: a case for publishing code in process
Gideon Burton

How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers i... - 1 views

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    An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.
Sean Watson

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In 1672, the journal published Newton's first paper New Theory about Light and Colours
  • it has remained in continuous publication ever since, making it the world's longest running scientific journal
  • The use of the word "philosophical" in the title derives from the phrase "natural philosophy", which was the equivalent of what we would now generically call "science
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  • Oldenburg published the journal at his own personal expense and seems to have entered into an agreement with the Council of the Royal Society allowing him to keep any resulting profits
  • He was to be disappointed, however, since the journal performed poorly from a financial point of view during Oldenburg's lifetime
  • Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin
Andrew DeWitt

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - 0 views

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    Interesting Copyright information.  Stuff that is good to know if you get a "cease & desist" notice about content that you are creating/publishing
Kristi Koerner

PubIt! Registration: Home - 0 views

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    Wow! Check out how fast you can publish!
Erin Hamson

The Cathedral & the Bazaar - O'Reilly Media - 0 views

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    Link to a description of the published book of that name. Apparently we have been looking at chapter 2 of said book of that name?
David Potter

Amazon decides Kindle speech isn't worth copyright fight - 0 views

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    The only significant change to the experimental section in the Kindle 2 was the addition of a text-to-speech capability that allowed the Kindle to read content to its users in one of two synthesized voices. Following an extended outcry from some in the publishing business, however, Amazon has backed down and will allow publishers to retain control over whether to expose their texts to this capability
Gideon Burton

Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
  • It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
  • This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
  • we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
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    Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
Gideon Burton

Top Internet engineers warn against SOPA - Post Tech - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or control. We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating censorship-compliance as a design requirement for new Internet innovations. This can only damage the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power over what their citizens can read and publish. The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its central position in the network for censorship that advances its political and economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.
Ariel Szuch

Should We Fear the Digital Economy Bill? - 0 views

  • This indicates that no proof of copyright infringement must exist in order to block a Web site, just an assumption that a violation has occurred or will occur. Such broad language means that Web sites large and small, from YouTube to your next door neighbor’s blog, are in danger if accusations of copyright infringement are made against them.
  • Without any obligation to provide proof of wrongdoing, the bill creates the potential for abuse and…dare we say it…censorship.
  • The other side of the argument is, of course, that entertainment companies and copyright holders lose billions of dollars due to online piracy and illegal filesharing of copyrighted works.
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  • People and companies that make a living on content and intellectual property have a very real need to protect their investments and creative assets. Measures such as DRM and ongoing legal battles don’t seem to have slowed down online piracy.
  • But are such extreme measures like the Digital Economy Bill really necessary to fight copyright infringement? Should the British government be allowed limitless power to block Web sites and Internet users?
Andrew DeWitt

Social Media for Branding - 0 views

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    Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world
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    Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
Kristi Koerner

The Social Contract - The Open-Borders Network - Philanthropic foundations fund immigra... - 0 views

  • When it comes to advancing goals, objectives, and agendas, groups that are well organized, and consequently well funded, will eventually triumph over the unorganized, underrepresented, and underfunded.
  • these groups network across the social, cultural, and political divide in shoring up mutual interests (business, corporate, and labor) to advance their agenda of a world without borders.
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    Good connections between networking ideas and the social contract.
Katherine Chipman

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 0 views

  • Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
  • HomeThe Newsroom BlogMultimediaPhotosVideoAudio
  • New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
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  • may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
  • we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
  • Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
  • This is your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the work of the Lord?
  • The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to almost every corner of the earth.
  • Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
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