Your Privacy Online - What They Know - WSJ.com - 9 views
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A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal. If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this
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I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.
Flavorwire » 10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs - 3 views
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10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs
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Those were awesome, though I was a little surprised to not see Snoop Dogg's new book that can be...ahem...smoked: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2012/4/3/rolling-words-snoop-doggs-smokable-book.html
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hahaha! that's unbelievable!
Gutenberg 2.0 | - 6 views
What Is a Career in Publishing? Recruiting the Talent We Need for the 21st Ce... - 6 views
Hard times for traditional books as China's digital publishing industry grows - Books, ... - 2 views
Ebooks Don't Cannibalize Print, People Do - 2 views
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The most important lesson I can convey to book publishing professionals is that they must understand that those of us who have made the transition to ebooks, buy ebooks, not print books. Ebook reading device users don’t shop in bookstores and then decide what edition they want; ebook device readers buy what is available in ebookstores. Search an ebookstore for a title and if it doesn’t come up, it doesn’t exist – no matter how many versions are available in print
E-Reader Sales Expected to Be Big This Holiday - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement: Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models. The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.
CNet article on E-Books - 8 views
Frankenfont | Fathom - 6 views
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web - 2 views
Google Plans to Seek Books Lawsuit Dismissal | PCWorld - 2 views
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Absent Silence - 5 views
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how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret
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But a great corporation, even one sworn to do no evil, makes no such bargain with the public. There is no reciprocity. Trust is not mutual. It’s understood that the public interest, if considered at all, comes second to the interests of the corporation — profit, growth, and power. So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets.