Stacy | February 18, 2009
It seems that FB has at least temporarily rolled back their terms of service to the previous, slighly less draconian terms until they can figure out why tens of thousands of people were protesting and even deleting their accounts. We’ll see what happens. On to other news. Suddenly life has gotten really busy! Especially with [...]
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 | January 12, 2009
This proves it: REAL writers use typewriters.
Stacy | January 12, 2009
I feel a little sickened right now. I’m posting this so publicly because I think this has affected pretty much all my friends and colleagues who are in my address book, even if we’ve only emailed once. If you received a LinkedIn invitation from me without being on LinkedIn already, please accept my apology. I [...]
Stacy | January 10, 2009
I’ve found all sorts of new people on Twitter to learn from. One is Chris Webb, Associate Publisher of Technology at John Wiley and Sons. I found his blog through his twitter. This post especially will be of interest to authors and anyone else seeking to reach readers through social media, a topic which of [...]
Stacy | December 20, 2008
Totally AWESOME zombie movie on SciFi right now. As I watch them devour braaains on mute, because yeah, gross, and I’m too tired to change the channel, some thoughts on my day. Drove up to Salt Lake with in what we thought would be light snow, which turned out to be a small, gentle snowstorm [...]
