The six-strike anti-piracy policy is nearly here Internet providers tracking customers seems like a free evidence collecting service for future law suits… Read more »
Al Jazeera buys US cable channel The news that Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news organization, recently bought Channel TV, a cable channel founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, has occasioned a small amount… Read more »
Why I don’t shut up about Amazon We write a lot about Amazon on this blog. We, collectively, work hard to keep news of that grinning retail behemoth, that gyre of shit and discount tennis socks, before… Read more »
Pruning a personal library This weekend I spent a lot of time agonizing over which books in my library I should keep, and which ones I should give away. The start of a new… Read more »
WORD Bookstore opening a Jersey City location Independent bookstore WORD has been a fixture in Greenpoint neighborhood for almost six years now, a bastion of literary culture in Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood. Now it looks like they’re setting their… Read more »