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help defeat "SOPA" H.R.3261

By admin, on November 16th, 2011 |

Non-writing related, however if H.R. 3261 does pass, it will most certainly effect the way you consume your media, books included.

While the Stop Online Piracy Act sounds like it might be a good thing, it really isn’t. It puts the ability to censor websites and their content in the hands of major corporations and the enforcement of such in the hands of third-party ISP’s, completely foregoing legal due-process for any who might be targeted. [...]

should sports franchises be considered businesses?

By joshuacitrak, on August 24th, 2011 |

Can’t make sense of the NFL or NBA lockout situations or their implications? You’re not alone. Hard caps. TV revenues. Guaranteed money. These are hardly the battle cries of a typical labor dispute.

Well, maybe that’s because pro sports franchises really aren’t you’re typical business. In fact Malcolm Gladwell argues: they aren’t really businesses at [...]

my anxiety is that i get labeled

By joshuacitrak, on February 23rd, 2010 |

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” [...]

February 23rd, 2010 | reply to: @joshuacitrak | Tags: ain't afraid to hustle, C.R.E.A.M., coorporate sheenanigans, illegals, illicit sex, imperialism, slack, the uncanny, women, work | Category: uncategorized | feel free to leave a comment

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comeback to value

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. [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | reply to: @joshuacitrak | Tags: C.R.E.A.M., coorporate sheenanigans, environment, global economy, imperialism, raj patel, Sanchez Grotto, uber alles | Category: uncategorized | feel free to leave a comment

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Fellow Grotto mate Raj Patel on Colbert

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 [...]

DOJ’s take on the Settlement

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 [...]

bad turn for Google Book Settlement (and all the authors in the house say HO!)

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 [...]

Google book settlement opt out nears, do you know your (lack of) rights?

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. [...]

July 29th, 2009 | reply to: @joshuacitrak | Tags: C.R.E.A.M., coorporate sheenanigans, imperialism, media giants, publishing, writing | Category: uncategorized, writing | feel free to leave a comment

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this is the trend

By joshuacitrak, on July 22nd, 2009 |

This week Barnes and Noble has launched its eBook site, offering 700,000 titles at start. While Amazon and its Kindle continue to struggle, mostly because of proprietary format issues, B&N will allow its books to be read on the industry standard ePub format. The ePub format works on a variety of devices, from your iPhone [...]

Free

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 [...]

help defeat "SOPA" H.R.3261

should sports franchises be considered businesses?

my anxiety is that i get labeled

comeback to value

Fellow Grotto mate Raj Patel on Colbert

DOJ’s take on the Settlement

bad turn for Google Book Settlement (and all the authors in the house say HO!)

Google book settlement opt out nears, do you know your (lack of) rights?

this is the trend

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