Booklornethics | Booklorn http://www.booklorn.com Books I Have Known Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Interesting links for August 28, 2009 http://www.booklorn.com/interesting-links-for-august-28-2009/ http://www.booklorn.com/interesting-links-for-august-28-2009/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:24:34 +0000 Booklorn http://www.booklorn.com/?p=2903 I don’t have many links for you this week since I have actually been doing things that generate income (shocking!):

#1: An article about how US newspapers are laying off their best specialized reporters, in this case science reporters, in the name of budget cuts. The unerring capacity for the media (and not just the US media) to get science news stories wrong drives me crazy, so this article caught my eye.

#2: You can’t trust those iTunes App Store reviews. What a shocker (not really). The short version: PR firm offers iPhone app developers excellent reviews on iTunes store … for a fee. Ethics? What are those?

#3: Speaking of ethics and the like: You may be familiar (or not) with a Friday night ritual on Twitter called #romfail in which a romance reviewer mocks a book of the week line-by-line. Well, it seems some people have had enough of this practice. There’s also a roundup of other posts on the topic.

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