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Contents contributed and discussions participated by arnie Grossblatt

arnie Grossblatt

Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org - 1 views

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    Echoes of Shepard Fairey.  Fair use defenses based on the transformative nature of the work are expense and often "won" by copyright holders on the basis of the cost of defense.
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An ethical bargain - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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    Transparency, relationships and other things corporations could learn from a small bookstore.
arnie Grossblatt

Worldreader Update: It's Working - 0 views

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    One-ereader per child.  
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Beware online "filter bubbles": Eli Pariser on TED.com - 0 views

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    We need "embedded ethics" in search algorithms.
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Does Google facilitate e-book piracy? - 1 views

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    Should Google filter search results to eliminate e-book pirate sites?
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Three Cups of Tea' Author, Disputes CBS Report - 1 views

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    Publishers fail again at basic fact-checking.  The assumption must be that the reading public doesn't care about the truth when something is called a memoir.
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Public Domain Day - 1 views

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    Accounting of what enters the public domain this new year's day, and a look at what could have been.
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Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business - 0 views

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    Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"
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On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only - 0 views

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    Amazing how much personal information one makes available by the simple act of browsing. 
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Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads. Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
  • A Wall Street Journal investigation of the practice showed tracking to be pervasive and ever-more intrusive:
  • The 50 most-popular U.S. websites, including four run by Microsoft, installed an average of 64 pieces of tracking technology each onto a test computer.
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Welcome to Wylie World! | SQUARE BOOKS - 1 views

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    The Wylie agency signed a deal to exclusively distribute e-books of its authors through Amazon. Want to read Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Saul Bellow in digital form?  Better get a Kindle. 
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