Posting will be light to non-existent for the next month or two – have to focus on Brain Candy site overhaul and rebranding, Runes of Gallidon site updates, the new series of posts about digital content I want to draft, and a lot of Kenji writing that’s gotten pushed off recently. Apologies in advance…
ACTA Update (yet more exclusivity)
Boing Boing just provided an update on the ACTA language and policy, and it’s about as bad as informed observers feared. Based on what has been leaked so far and including statements from various countries currently participating in this essentially closed-door negotiation process, it would appear that the U.S. and other countries have grown tired […]
DOJ, a subsidiary of the RIAA
Wired just posted about yet another DOJ appointment having come straight from the RIAA legal halls. That’s FIVE RIAA appointments. I am struggling – incredibly hard – to reconcile this trend in DOJ appointments with an administration that paints itself as forward-thinking and technically savvy. The current U.S. copyright and IP laws are subsidizing broken […]
How Amazon Broke Occam’s Razor
The recent PR dust-up regarding Amazon’s delisting and re-tagging of various books (many of them falling in the LGBT lit genres) in their system that then caused those books to be far harder to find – and therefore buy – was a great PR lesson of what not to do (unless your goal is to […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 8 – Yours, Mine, Ours
While the overriding driver for the Brain Candy team to start Runes of Gallidon was a passion for the concept of building a shared world collaboratively, we also acknowledged that at some point we would have to figure out how we could share revenue with Artisans. Ah, the wonderfully tricky, sticky issues with money and […]