Showing posts with label Advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advertising. Show all posts
Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Fates of Social Networks

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the breakdown of social networking sites, which he seems to believe is the inevitable culmi...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Commercialized Holidays

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Recently I saw a Facebook post lamenting the materialistic nature of the Christmas season nowadays. The holidays focus too much on buying an...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

How the Mouse Moves/ How the Toilet Rolls

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I like sex, science, copyright law and order, privacy, and words. Not necessarily in that order.  I read a lot of legal blogs each week, and...
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Sunday, November 21, 2021

Sex Toys In The Subway And Other Lowdown Delights

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Immediate tease disclaimer: I blog about copyright-related issues. This is that. Sex Toys for boys but not for girls? How fair is that, in a...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Xmas Musings

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I've just read a recent book about Dorothy Sayers, SUBVERSIVE, by Crystal Downing. One theme to which the author frequently alludes is t...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

What's In A ... Face?

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Much ado about...  faces is my takeaway from this week's legal (and copyleft activist) blogs. Not that "faces" equate to nothi...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

Flattery Will Get You.... In Trouble

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They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery... until they call it plagiarism or copyright infringement. And then, there a...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Real People And Temptation

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Increasingly, authors are responsible in every sense for advertising and promoting their own works. Also, most people carry a camera with th...
Sunday, April 01, 2018

Leaking Clouds, Dark Days, Do Not Track... My Underwear

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When marketing a novel, the received wisdom is -or used to be- that a reader must see the cover/title/author name at least seven times (pres...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Grabbing Attention

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS essay expounds upon the "arms race" for our attention in the media. He compares the "race...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Author Beware.... and Emoji have Rights, Too

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In the desperate scramble to promote ones own works, it is all too easy to trample other people's rights unawares. Beware of the rabbit ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Depiction Part 1 - Depicting Power In Relationships

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Depiction Part 1 Depicting Power In Relationships by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Depiction essentially means to symbolize, to draw a picture...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Marketing Fiction In A Changing World - Part 6 - The News Game by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Marketing Fiction In A Changing World   Part 6 The News Game by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in this series: Last week, Pa...