i love frequent Atlantic contributor Sandra Tsing Loh. She has the uncanny ability to nail, succinctly, the slices of the pie that make up our culture. This is from her “Classed Dismissed” [...]
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By joshuacitrak, on February 3rd, 2010 |
 Right now I’m reading a double economic doozy, Raj Patel’s “The Value of Nothing” and David Walker’s “Comeback America.” For all our pomp, wealth and ego we’ve allowed our leaders to guide us into an economic minefield…and they don’t have a map or the brains to get us out. [...] By joshuacitrak, on January 20th, 2010 |
Hit the jump to see the good doctor, Raj Patel author of two best selling, hard hitting, socially conscious [...] By joshuacitrak, on September 21st, 2009 |
The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on the Google Book Settlement saying that currently, it violates the Sherman Act. This is probably the death nail for this sucker in its current form. Although both sides say they will continue negotiating, many are wondering who they are negotiating for, as many of the stakeholders/rightsholders [...] By joshuacitrak, on September 10th, 2009 |
Thanks to true grassroots activism on the part of authors everywhere, the House Judiciary sub-committee is looking into the legality of the snowjob “Settlement” proposed by Google and the Author’s Guild. Marybeth Peters, of the U.S. Register of Copyrights, dealt a terrible blow to the deal in her opening comments saying the Settlement was “fundamentally at odds with the [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 29th, 2009 |
As the deadline for the Google Book Settlement opt out, as negotiated by the Author’s Guild, nears, all authors need to be aware of their (lack of) rights regarding this settlement. In my opinion, this is a terrible deal for authors and artists in general as it had not punished Google for illegally copying books and gives them license in to future to continue doing so. [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 17th, 2009 |
If you’ve been following the revolutionary way that online giant Scribd.com has sought to change publishing, more than likely you’ve heard this on going drama about Wired’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free”. A book that attempts to quantify the idea of free in the digital [...] By joshuacitrak, on April 28th, 2009 |
The great Satan is at it again. While deftly not admitting any fault and or problems with its clunky proprietary e-reading system, Kindle, Amazon has acquired Stanza, a mobile e-reader which I use and recommend. [...] By joshuacitrak, on February 23rd, 2009 |
Worker exploitation does not only happen in 3rd world countries. It happens right here too. A Barnes and Noble warehouse in Reno announced the firing of 50 known illegal immigrants after a routine audit by US Immigration and Customs requested I-9’s for all the warehouse employees. All of these workers were unable to provide immigration status [...] |
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