What do you think, gang? One isolated case or a major threat to blogs and community sites? Is it okay for them to pick up leads and headlines from the big guys?
The Associated Press has issued DMCA takedown orders against Drudge Retort —that’s with two t’s in the second word—for allegedly violating copyright laws and engaging in ‘"hot news’ misappropriation under New York state law." If Drudge Retort, Rogers Cadenhead ’s liberal version of Drudge Report , loses, this could even have nasty repressions for interactive e-books, which, after all, could be hosting blogs and forums. And what about sites such as NewsTrust , which let community members critique the media, and which will reproduce headlines and pick up snippets, even if they may not be leads? Speaking of which, will blogs someday have to police commenters to prevent them from using even small excerpts?
Going after the New York Times next? Hardly! Media bullies at wor...
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That’s right. Ken Yelin on 37Signals.com maintains that the Drudge Report — long ridiculed for having a terrible design — is one of the best designs on the web. Why? “My definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose,” he writes. “However, I [...]... more
“With the swift pace of change in the media landscape, it’s easy to overlook how far college news media has come in a short time. There has been some great innovation in college media, even as some lag behind.” -from MediaShift
“Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web” -from [...]
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Lewis Carroll’s popularity goes on and on. Just a minute ago I checked Project Gutenberg ’s hit lists and found that the writer behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass was #17 among yesterday’s downloads . In fact, Carroll was the second most downloaded of all children’s authors, surpassed only by L. Frank Baum , the playful soul behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz .
But who was Lewis Carroll (penname of the Re... more
Andrew Savikas over at the TOC blog has been lamenting the recent AAP letter to the IDPF, and rightly so. Publishers need to stop thinking of digital books as low-fidelity copies of print originals, and they need to stop thinking about reading as an act of solitude. Reading, whether done in solitude or with a group, always ultimately connects us to the larger world, and the ways we make that connection are changing quickly.
Savikas also points out the lack, in the EPUB specifications, of fr... more
Will the Sony Reader reach France in September? Check out Le Monde (French here , Google translation here ).
According to the machine translation—I won’t change a single word—"Fnac should put on sale in September of e-papers. Fnac has signed a partnership with Sony." I invite native French speakers to help us pick up the Fnac -related nuances here.
Could this indeed involve the Sony Reader, not another product? If so, it would be in line with Hachette... more
"A beta version of eReader.com’s eBook software is now available for S60 3rd Edition. eReader is a long standing eBook store which provides some of the current best sellers in eBook form, protected via its own form of DRM. They provides a version of their reader for multiple platforms. However a few years ago they seemed to lose interest in support Symbian OS handsets, but under the new ownership of Fictionwise this seems to be changing." - AllAboutSymbian.com.
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