Community class and new ad
My sister was once an ad designer, and she has been helping me out in the last couple of weeks to design an ad for my critique services, which I’ll be placing in SCBWI newsletters. Check it out–pretty! You’re always …
Author: Stacy
Stacy Whitman is the publisher of Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books. She specializes in fantasy, mystery, and science fiction for children and young adults.
LTUE and the undead cold
For the last couple of days I’ve been at BYU’s Life, the Universe, and Everything, sniffling my way through several panels. The zombie cold seems to be lightening up–it was a whole lot worse yesterday than it was today, though …
The undead cold
I had a cold last weekend, but Monday and Tuesday it seemed to be clearing up. I was feeling mostly better, running around doing errands and seeing friends and getting work done. Then I woke up today, and it was …
And in other news…
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 …
Bringing in the Feds: Eeeeven more on Facebook’s ToS changes
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 …
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Facebook responds
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 …
Interesting take on changing terms of service w/out notification
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 …
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More on ToS at Facebook
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 …
Concerns about Facebook’s terms of service rights claims
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, …
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Testing, testing
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 …