Here is Time‘s list of the 100 most influential people of 2011.
Including the following authors Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan, George R.R. Martin, and “tiger mom†Amy Chua.
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FYI: Your Phone Is Tracking Your Every Move
Researchers have discovered that the iPhone is keeping track of where you go and storing that information in a file that is stored – unencrypted and unprotected – onto any machine with which you synchronize your phone.
…While it is not unusual for cellphones to track users’ location, that information is typically kept behind a firewall and it requires a court order for others to be able to access it. This isn’t the case with this particular file, raising serious questions about privacy and security.
Your iPhone Is Tracking Your Every Move (ReadWriteWeb)
Sci-Fi authors unite against genre snobbery
The shunning of genre fiction isn’t exactly a new revelation, and having worked as a Bookseller for a sci-fi and graphic novels specialist, it’s been on my radar for several years. As a student, I even used to feel a little sheepish admitting to my more discerning peers that, yes, one of my favorite authors is Stephen King. Of course, literary and genre fiction both have value, and it’s also worth mentioning that as with all fiction, some of it is good, and some of it is terrible.
via MOBYLIVES » Sci-Fi authors unite against genre snobbery.
What Defines a Meme? (via Smithsonian Magazine)
Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve
What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine.
Whither the dream of the universal library? (via Guardian.co.uk)
Imagine a library of everything ever written. We could achieve it, but the copyright system is skewed toward corporate interests
Whither the dream of the universal library? | Peter Singer | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.