Ethics and Publishing

"Google said it was alarmed by the number of government requests to censor political speech, particularly from Western democracies like the United States, Spain and Poland."

U.S. censorship piece is not so suprising to me in this post 9/11 and tube car bombing era. It is becoming difficult to site what is hampering my rights a company that wants to Know all(Google) infringing on my privacy, or a government that wants to keep people from knowledge to stamp out terror; and in doing so is impeding my privacy and speech. But what is terrifying to me is that my speech will not be free in a bit, so it seems. Democracy flaw is not the letter of law, but the people that implement it.

From Meredith "Another interesting article to share about the digital divide in America. What I thought was interesting in this wasn't that there was a gap in technology tools but that there is a gap in technology support once those tools/gadgets arrive at the school."

Very interesting article. Though internet access can be a huge problem in rural areas, this article didn't mention its rather large costs. Often times, rural areas pay significantly more for internet than in a city. For some of these kids the problem is not just having the phone company improve access, but the cost of it, too.

Copyright troll hoisted on his peta Bad news for a copyright troll -- good news for the blogosphere.

Submitted by Meredith Hurt

A review of the 2012 Conference on Ethics and Publishing.

Want another reason to dislike Congress?

Fb tricks users into giving up privacy

Aside from the obvious copyright and legal issues, I feel like this is just plain bad politics. It would be far better for Reid to post his own opinions to discount Angle's and wouldn't make him look like a thief...and would be more ethical as well.

Actually, I find this article really interesting! This type of hard-core politics is either going to make or break Reid, who's numbers are already suffering. He's either really desperate or not afraid to pull out his guns.

More and more, it seems, the new books that really attract me don't come from the major trade publishers. That doesn't mean that New York isn't bringing out good books or that I don't read plenty of titles from trade houses. But I think that as people grow more sure of their tastes, they often gravitate to those specialized subgenres that particularly appeal to them, or to the more unusual or even minor work from writers they especially care about, and that usually means specialty presses.

Publisher pulls book because of factual inaccuracies. Where were the editors?

Oxford University Press editorial policy comes under fire.  The president of OUP will be a keynote speaker at this year's Ethics and Publishing Conference.

Why SOPA is dangerous legislation.

AAP works to shut down OA.

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Counterfeit books on Amazon / Spamazon.

Huffington Post seems to have a vested interest in killing off print before its time. Maybe they are right, but they certainly are overzealous about it.

Censorship of web content broadens in Pakistan.  Maybe they don't know that users can decide not to look at pages with offensive content.