Posted a rough idea for a couple possibilities earlier. Now that I’ve gotten some feedback here’s what I’ll focus on. Over the summer, Amazon deleted copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle owners with no prior warning. Though Amazon apologized for the incident and said this would not happen again, the fact that it […]
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Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
December 21, 2009
I had a couple of ideas for exploration, so I’ll post them both and see what people gravitate toward. 1. Yahoo! closed down Geocities this past October. In the 1990’s, Geocities was the introduction to webpage design for millions of users. Its ease of use gave the average web citizen the chance to share vast […]