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‘This is a Bookshop’ Sign Goes Viral

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:41 +0000

An image has been making the rounds on Reddit of this clever bookshop sign, spotted on the door of The Albion Beatnik in Oxford. Reaction seems to be mixed; some people see such gimmicks as incredibly pretentious. Others are more sanguine and feel, as I do, that it’s meant to be a little tongue in [...]

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Reddit apologizes for ‘online witch hunts’

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:19:22 +0000

Initially, Reddit didn’t seem to want to take responsibility for the user-generated content on its website—even as users acted as Internet sleuths, trying to find clues in the Boston Marathon bombing. When Reddit’s Erik Martin (pictured at left) was asked at the paidContent Live event last week if the point of the site was to [...]

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New media needs to take responsibility and credibility seriously

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:02:34 +0000

The Rise of the Digital New Media Entity panel at the paidContent Live conference was one of the more interesting ones on Wednesday. The moderator was Jim Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. He weaved current events into the discussion to talk about how these new platforms have a responsibility for what is being put [...]

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Digg Readying a Google Reader Replacement

Juli Monroe — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:00:28 +0000

Well, that was fast. Digg announced yesterday that they are building a Reader replacement. Apparently they’ve been planning it for a while—they’re just moving it up the priority list. Good for them! I’m liking this part of the announcement: We hope to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader’s features (including its API), but also [...]

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The CEA’s Gary Shapiro to host a Reddit AMA tomorrow

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:07:22 +0000

The modern phenomenon known as the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session is perhaps a perfect example of the sort of knowledge acquisition that is only possible because of the Internet. But you know that already. Here’s something you probably don’t know: A gentleman by the name of Gary Shapiro will be hosting a Reddit [...]

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Weekend Roundup — News and other must-reads

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:31:40 +0000

Create your own pulp magazine covers with Pulp-O-Mizer (i09) Husain urges publishers: ‘act now to keep bookshops’ (The Bookseller) Macmillian’s Tor Books Now Accepting Direct Author Submissions (People Who Write) Attention ‘artisan authors’: digital self-publishing is harder than it looks (The Guardian) Amazon’s Future Is Not in Selling Stuff — And That’s a Good Thing (Wired) Publishers’ [...]

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Is Reddit a Breeding Ground for E-Book Authors?

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:29:20 +0000

I’ll admit to not having been familiar with the story of horror writer and now-legendary Reddit user Dathan Auerbach until I read about him in a recent blog post by Matthew Cavnar, the vice president of business development at Vook—one of our favorite e-book publishing companies. Cavnar, by the way, happens to be a great writer, so [...]

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Redditors discuss why they pirate e-books

Chris Meadows — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 03:26:11 +0000

Reddit has an interesting thread soliciting reasons (or rationalizations) from people about why they pirate e-books. There are people who say things like “I’m poor and I like to read, but I can’t pirate food, so I pirate everything else,” or “I limit myself to pirating things that are out-of-print or otherwise unavailable through a [...]

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Reddit debunks Wikipedia-fooling college class hoax in 26 minutes

Chris Meadows — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:55:26 +0000

I wrote, a couple of April Fool’s Days ago, that the rash of fake stories on April 1 might serve as good practice for us to use all year ‘round in figuring out whether that story our friends emailed to us is true. It turns out that redditors—the denizens of news discussion forum site Reddit—have [...]

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Wikipedia, reddit, Mozilla to black out sites Wednesday in protest of SOPA legislation

Chris Meadows — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:40:14 +0000

A number of websites are going dark tomorrow to protest the SOPA legislation that could impose harsh restrictions upon the Internet. These sites include Mozilla, reddit for 12 hours, and Wikipedia for a full 24 hours. Google will also place a SOPA-related link on its homepage. Wales explained that the Wikipedia blackout comes as a [...]

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Can Warner Brothers ‘exclusively’ license Reddit content?

Chris Meadows — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:11:26 +0000

Internet writers have been banging away online for years, throwing out some great ideas and then developing them on public forums in collaboration with other writers. It took a couple of decades from when they first started doing it, but the inevitable has finally happened: Hollywood has taken an interest in, and acquired rights to, [...]

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Boy saves allowance for whole year, helps buy brother Kindle for Christmas

Chris Meadows — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:36:41 +0000

From Reddit comes the heartwarming story of a 27-year-old man whose 13-year-old brother saved his allowance all year to chip in (with other members of the family) toward buying him a Kindle for Christmas. The 13-year-old is the only child of the family who still lives with his parents, and since his father suffered congestive [...]

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