Tag: Internet

…On my first book tour I was invited to Barbara’s Bookstore in Chicago. The employees optimistically set up seven folding chairs, then occupied those chairs themselves when nobody showed up for the reading.

Armed with such experiences, my writer pals and I took personally Amazon’s assault on the kinds of stores that hand-sold our books before anybody knew who we were, back before Amazon or the Internet itself existed. As Anita put it, losing independent bookstores would be “akin to editing … a critical part of our culture out of American life.

(via Amazon’s Jungle Logic - NYTimes.com)

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/opinion/amazons-jungle-logic.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all)

Indian Internet Censorship

Indian Telecommunications Minister

[Indian Telecommunications Minister] Sibal made clear in a second meeting in November that he expected the companies to create human-based, not technological, mechanisms to prescreen and block all “objectionable” material. Despite these repeated meetings and the Minister’s wish to see companies create voluntary systems to block content, the companies remained insistent they do not want to be responsible for deciding what content is appropriate or not appropriate for the Internet.Why do I feel this is really a sham attempt to get foreign companies to hire large number of unemployed citizens.