Stacy | February 17, 2009
If you’re interested in protesting on Facebook, by the way, there’s a group of over 50,000 FB members discussing their problems with the changes. Even more interesting, though, is that EPIC is filing a complaint with the FTC over all this–so my little concerns have joined with a lot of little concerns and I feel [...]
Stacy | February 16, 2009
Just saw this response from Facebook regarding the rights brou-ha-ha. We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that users upload. The new Terms were clarified to be more consistent with the behavior of the site. That is, if you send a message to another user (or post to their wall, etc…), [...]
Stacy | February 16, 2009
The courts have said that it’s not acceptable. The Ninth Circuit disagreed heavily with the original ruling, saying that it was not reasonable to expect Douglas to check the company’s web site every day just to see if the terms of service had changed. “Parties to a contract have no obligation to check the terms [...]
Stacy | February 16, 2009
Mashable has a post that says it a lot more succinctly than the concerns I was trying to express yesterday. It compares specific quotes from the previous and current TOS. Check it out. A preview: The possible implications of this TOS change go beyond these concerns. Sure, you can choose not to use Facebook at [...]
Stacy | February 15, 2009
Facebook’s terms of service changed over a week ago, without them notifying anyone. (It’s like they think they’re a credit card company or something.) Now, they claim they have all rights in perpetuity to any content on the site (previously, it was simply a basic right to post your content here on the site and [...]
Stacy | February 14, 2009
This is my first post from my new website. Pay no attention to it. *This is not the website you’re looking for.* (No, really–it’s not. I’m working on getting the right URL transferred, so this one is only temporary. And the only content on it so far is my LJ content.)
Stacy | February 12, 2009
…I am practically spamming the friends boards today. I forgot to mention that next week is Life, the Universe, and Everything, a local convention that is FREE! and always a good learning experience.
Note that Tracy Hickman and his wife, Laura, are the guests of honor, and special guests include my author Rebecca Shelley (who wrote Red Dragon Codex as R.D. Henham), Brandon Mull, Howard Tayler, Brandon Sanderson, James Dashner, Dave Wolverton, and L.E. Modesitt, Jr. I appear to be part of the "and many more!" participating guests (in previous years they’ve posted my name, at least), but I seem to be in good company–those joining me on various panels include such awesome authors as Mette Ivie Harrison, Kristin Randle, Jessica Day George, and another of my authors, Clint Johnson (Green Dragon Codex, also writing as R.D. Henham). I’ll still be on a goodly number of panels (six, to be exact), so if you’re interested in writing science fiction and fantasy–for adults or children–it’s a great place to get some good information without having to pay an entrance fee.
Panels I’ll be on (notice that these times are subject to change, so you’ll want to check the final schedule next week:
Stacy | February 12, 2009
I never really thought I’d ever be in a position to start my own business. I never really liked to think about money–growing up, we never had any to worry about, and in college my money management skills were about equal to Wall Street’s current crisis. But because I didn’t grow up learning those skills, [...]
Stacy | February 12, 2009
Oh, and I keep forgetting to post about Kindling Words, which I’ve been back from for over a week. I was able to take pictures, and got some really great ones of Ashley Bryan, our keynote speaker, who was the best keynote speaker I’ve ever heard speak, and he didn’t even have a speech. But [...]
Stacy | February 12, 2009
I’m sitting down in my office for the first time in weeks. I’ve been working all sorts of other places for the last few weeks except for my office, because the office has been a downright terror and it doesn’t exactly soothe me to work in a space that has a tarp on the floor [...]
Stacy Whitman, editorial director of Tu Books
