Amazon Applies Shortening To Renowned Authors

Amazon, the largest retailer on the Internet, launched a new service today in hopes of reviving short-form literature. Enlisting the aide of dozens of established authors, Amazon will offer their customers a brand new service and perhaps even find some new ones. For just 49 cents, one can download and enjoy essays and short stories by their favorite writers or find someone new.

Bloggers: The New Gate Keepers?

The Blog Business Summit in San Francisco attracted a bit of attention. Various power bloggers were there, giving their advice and making a case for themselves and their profession to the business world. Some took it well and others not so well.

Fraud Blogs (Fraugs) Giving Me An Aneurism

Recently it was reported that the blogosphere was out pacing the famed Moore's Law, doubling in size every 5.5 months at the rate of 80,000 new blogs set up every day. We've also learned since that nearly half of the blogosphere is dead-that is, inactive. And now we find that an unknown number of them are fake to begin with, labeled "Splogs" (spam blogs) by…

Getting Mugged In a Computer Game?

That's right. A man has been arrested in Japan for computer game crime. He was using bots to beat up player characters, take their stuff and then sell on the computer game black market in the computer game called Lineage II.