IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING
If you are a published author -- and you know who you are -- consider joining THE AUTHORS GUILD(http://www.authorsguild.org/), a group looking out for all writers' best interests. The guild, currently headed by one of America's finest writers, ROY BLOUNT JR, recently settled a case for $145 million with GOOGLE to provide authors royalties on all books that Google plans to scan and offer free of charge. And Roy just wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times about Amazon's new and egregious practice of providing in-house audio versions of copyrighted books for free on KINDLE. I love my Kindle but this is thievery. And THE AUTHORS GUILD is out there fighting it.
This week I'll be at Stanford Medical Center and the Palo Alto VA on Thursday (19th) and at the CSUN Disability Tech Expo at the LA Renaissance Hotel at LAX on Saturday (21st). If you are interested in the Expo, a big one, go to http://www.csunconference.org.
posted by Allen at 11:12 AM
2 Comments:
I saw the picture on the "fail" blog, but it's not a fail at all. There's a guy in Africa, an amputee from an encounter with a landmine, who is making wheelchairs any way he can. Those plastic patio chairs are everywhere and the seats seem to last forever.
It's making a lot of people, especially kids, mobile when they weren't before. That's no fail.
Yeah, I had heard that. That's why it's labled "A Beautiful Thing." They should start distributing them to needy people in America. Low tech at its finest.
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