CORRECTION: YouTube Will Not Have 30 Sec Ad Bumpers. Choose Overlays Instead
Gizmodo wrote that it incorrectly reported that YouTube was going to use ad bumpers before video content. Instead, YouTube will have overlay ads. Also annoying but not so terrible as the 30 second ad...
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UC Berkley Makes Class Lectures Available on YouTube
It’s ironic that at the same time the first music file sharing case goes to trial, UC Berkley has uploaded over 300 hours of video including lectures on bioengineering, physics, chemistry, peace and...
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Thursday News: B&N unveils 2 new tablets; A look at print innovations;
B&N announced two new tablets yesterday. One is a 7″ and the other is a 9″ tablet. Their features don’t vary a great deal from the Kindle Fire or Google’s Nexus tablet but there is one stand out...
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Monday News: Analysis of Amazon Prime’s value, National Book Critics Circle...
Is Amazon Prime Worth Another $20 a Year? – For those of you still on the fence about whether to spend that extra $20 on a(bother) year of Amazon Prime, this video walks through the numbers (at least...
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Monday News: Amazon v. Hachette redux, historians editing Wikipedia, YouTube...
The Real Story Behind The Amazon v Hachette Fight – So here’s a pretty impersonal take on the Amazon v. Hachette battle, which is mighty difficult to find online right now. This whole thing reminds me...
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Thursday News: Fire phone, spying increases demand for cloud services, Daniel...
Amazon’s Fire phone has average looks and high aspirations (hands-on) – Well, some of the reviews are in, and they’re not exactly glowing. If the Amazon Fire phone were a serious contender to overthrow...
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Wednesday News: Börsenverein v. Amazon, the future of digital lending,...
Note: We’ve had some caching issues where the front page (the one with the slider) failed to update the content. The http://dearauthor.com/blog page was fine. I think we’ve fixed it but if you visit DA...
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Monday News: YouTube targets slow ISPs, Scarlett Johansson wins limited...
YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video – This is pretty interesting. YouTube, which is owned by Google, is posting these messages on videos that have...
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Wednesday News: WisCon fails women, Michelle Phan sued for infringement,...
WisCon’s flaky response to harassment incident sparks Internet uproar – You may have read about the sexual harassment allegations against former Tor editor Jim Frenkel last year on John Scalzi’s blog....
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Tuesday News: Dropbox drops files; YouTube stars getting book deals; SFF...
Heads Up: Dropbox Bug is Eating Files – So apparently Dropbox is actually deleting files, and while the company is trying to remedy the issue (and is offering a year of Dropbox Pro as compensation),...
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Thursday News: Ode to the DMCA; food and social class; an “ibreakup;” and...
How the DMCA made YouTube – A really interesting piece on the way the DMCA, which was enacted in 1998, and in particular the safe harbor provision, has allowed services like YouTube to flourish. Given...
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Monday News: YouTube & ContentID, suing for hypothetical infringement, Tate...
Congrats on the 10-Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID – YouTube is ten years old! It has definitely changed over the years, and not always for the better. EFF notes that the automated...
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Friday News: Nebula Awards, EU investigates Amazon, YouTube authors, and...
Female Sci-Fi Writers Nearly Sweep the 2015 Nebula Awards – When the Irene Gallo story hit, there was some speculation that a certain individual who has been banned from SFWA may have orchestrated the...
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Friday News: VidCon’s science stars, taking a closer look at comics, and...
YouTube’s Rock Stars of Science Make a Splash at VidCon – Given the sexual assault scandals associated with VidCon, I was pleasantly surprised by the success of science bloggers and their popularity at...
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Monday News: harassment, privacy, self-publishing, and flowers
Inside the underage sex scandal that’s tearing Vine apart – So despite all the tough talk from Hank and John Green about the sexual abuse and harassment issues in the Vine and YouTube communities, the...
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Monday News: New Models for Success?
How to Write a ‘Big Book’ -I’m still trying to figure out if this blog post by Lev Raphael is a joke. The subject – ‘how to write a big book’ – is also its central argument: to write a ‘big book’ in...
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Tuesday News: Book banning, ad blocking, spam, and piracy
Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post...
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Snapchat Scare, YouTube Red, Facebook Real Names, and a Fancy Retro Keyboard
Instead of a big article, here’s a couple of tech news that I thought I’d highlight. The Snapchat Scare (or if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product). Snapchat updated it’s privacy...
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Friday News: National Book Awards, YouTube’s Fair Use advocacy, marketing...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award – The least surprising, but nevertheless moving, win of the night was Ta-Nehisi Coates for his non-fiction work, Between the World and Me. Adam Johnson won the...
View ArticleThursday News: Samhain stays open (for now), YouTuber books, Bravo! imprint,...
Samhain tells its authors that the doors will stay open: Chris Brashear informed Samhain authors that expense cutting strategies are keeping the publisher afloat, and they hope to re-open submissions...
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