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Archives for October 2009

The Daily Loper – Oct 30, 2009

October 30, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Al Katkowsky: The Book As App
    The iPhone just might be the future of self-publishing.
  • Grant Hart: 2541
    I (k2) love this song. You should too.
  • Monrovian Analog Blogger
    How long before the news agencies in Liberia sue this guy?
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The Daily Loper – Oct 29, 2009

October 29, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent
    Tracking piracy isn’t easy. First you have to understand the basics. If that doesn’t work you can just make stuff up.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

How to Not Protect Your Online Identity

October 29, 2009 by Luke Gartshore Sheppard

For years I’ve been using the same username for many websites but with different passwords. I did it for convenience but I also had this vague idea that I was crafting some kind of an overall online identity which would be uniquely identifiable as me, would be consistent over time and would serve as an informal history to build my technical reputation and credibility. But now that I see the results I don’t like it even though there are not any individual postings or fragments of data that I’m ashamed of or embarrassed about. It’s just that when I see them all together the effect is unsettling and feels like I’ve been under surveillance all these years.

In some cases I made either bad choices or misinformed decisions. For example, by way of Googling my name recently, I found my work phone number in the web archives of a members only listserv for people in my industry. I recall making the decision to put my phone number in my email signature because I was posting specific information that I thought would help guys doing my same job in other organizations. There are few enough of us that I figured I’d be happy to help if one of them were to call me to ask for more details or advice. The problem is that, while I knew that registered members (i.e., people in my industry) would be able to search the archives, I had no idea that the thread was going to end up on Google. That was just simple misinformed decision. But my initial settings on my Twitter.com account turned out to be a case of making a genuinely bad decision, then forgetting all about it.

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Filed Under: Privacy Tagged With: Facebook, identity, MySpace, Privacy, Twitter

The Daily Loper – Oct 28, 2009

October 28, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • QA: A front-row seat for media’s meltdown
    What are the chances that movie and book professionals read this article and think it doesn’t really apply to them?

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

The Daily Loper – Oct 27, 2009

October 27, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades
    The picture tells the whole story.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

The Daily Loper – Oct 26, 2009

October 26, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Japan’s Windows 7 Whopper Is Real, and It’s Horrifying
    Video of the Windows 7 Burger in the Flesh! This is wrong on so many levels.
  • Top 10 Lessons From NBC’s Failing Jay Leno Strategy
    What? You think we have more to say after this?
  • Microsoft is shocked to find racy content in Family Guy special
    No words.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?

October 25, 2009 by Kirk Biglione

Last week bookseller Barnes and Noble unveiled the Nook, its long-awaited eReading device. Although ill-named, the Nook is a worthy competitor to the Kindle, offering a number of features not found on the Amazon device, including LendMe, a feature that allows for controlled sharing of ebooks. While the sharing feature comes with a number of limitations, it would appear to be a small but important step towards making DRM-restricted content slightly more flexible for consumers. There’s just one problem — publishers want no part of the Nook’s LendMe feature.

Publishers Lunch reported last week (registration required) that many large publishing houses have indicated that they won’t participate in the LendMe program.

To be clear, the LendMe feature is extremely limited. Books are lent for a maximum of 14 days. And unlike the library, there are no extensions. When a book is lent, the lender loses access, and once the book is returned to the lender it can never be lent again.

So, why are publishers opposed to the Nook’s crippled ebook sharing scheme? As one Unnamed Publishing Executive told Publishers Lunch:

“if publishers agree to lending then every ebook offer now and in the future will come with this consumer feature. Over time, I’m concerned that lending won’t grow the market and in fact could hurt it.”

What Unnamed Publishing Executive seems to fear most is a sense of consumer entitlement. If consumers have the right to share ebooks now, they’ll expect to have that right until the end of time. Never mind the fact that consumers share print books all the time. Since the sharing of books is apparently a bad thing, we can only assume that the ease with which consumers share printed books is a flaw inherent in the print format. Fortunately publishers can correct that flaw in the digital realm through the liberal use of oppressive DRM.

I suppose this worldview shouldn’t come as a surprise. If the history of digital media has taught us one thing it’s that media companies see the digital future as an opportunity to exert extreme control over how consumers use and interact with content.

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Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: DRM, ebooks, Kindle, nook, Piracy

The Daily Loper – Oct 25, 2009

October 25, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Singer Morrissey Stable After Collapsing on Stage
    The bad news is he will very likely sing again.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

The Daily Loper – Oct 23, 2009

October 23, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content
    Ha! To newspaper executives out there whining, stop blaming Google and fix your own robots.txt file.
  • “DRM-restricted”
    What copyright holders call protection, consumers call restriction. Since consumers are the ones who ultimately pay for and use DRM-infected media, we’re going with the term DRM-restricted.
  • Burger King Japan selling Windows 7 burgers
    The Windows 7 burger comes with 7 beef patties and cost 777 yen. Don’t blame us when you reboot your burger.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

The Daily Loper – Oct 22, 2009

October 22, 2009 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • L.A. Times, Newspaper Morgue
    And the LA Times keeps cutting staff. Sigh.
  • Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone
    Sigh.
  • In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing?
    Now *this* is interesting.
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