December 2009
2 posts
2 tags
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes →
Has anyone read this? On the plus side, it’s 464 pages and has stories by Tanith Lee and Naomi Novik. On the minus side, a lot of the stories are said to contain supernatural elements.
I tried to see if the local library had it, but the website is down. Sigh.
2 tags
Study reveals extent of online US news copying →
Some incredible things here. 101,000 articles were reprinted 112,000 times. A consortium of publishers will push for Google and Yahoo identify exact copies of articles and share ad revenue with their originators. Rupert Murdoch might pull NewsCorp stories off Google altogether…
But what I really wonder about is this:
Bloggers, often the primary target of publishers’ anger about how their...