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in Arts by TeleRead: Bring the...
3 hours ago — This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl’s Paperback Writer blog. . It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can’t verify anything that it contains: It’s been brought to my attention that...
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in Technology by Paperback Writer
August 31, 2010 — It's been brought to my attention that Scribd.com has begun charging people to download my free e-books hosted on their site. To get around my copyright and the free distribution notice I've placed in each e-book, they are...
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in Technology by Sunlight Foundation with a VERY BADsentimentOverall mood: VERY BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: important. Negative adjectives found in the text: prohibitive, archaic, unusable. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
August 26, 2010 — We’re big fans of Scribd here at Sunlight. For a while now, we’ve been posting transparency related documents to the platform while leveraging their widgets to embed congressional fund...
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in Business by paidContent
August 26, 2010 — Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-half-old book and document store, sources tell paidContent. A rep for the the San...
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in Arts by Exile on Ninth Street
August 09, 2010 — Last week I read the post below from Writer’s Digest, and it motivated me to check out Scribd. Marketing/promoting my work and my writing is probably the most difficult aspect of my writing life, almost as difficult as...
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August 04, 2010 — Scribd just emailed us to let us know that today’s California Proposition 8 ruling, which was delivered at about 1:45 p.m. PT today, is the most viral document in the history of the site ....
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August 04, 2010 — Who says no one wants to read the full decision? TechCrunch : The final ruling was leaked to Scribd and received over 50,000 hits “in a matter of minutes” according to Scribd Senior Director of...
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in Arts by Daemonsbooks
August 04, 2010 — One of the hardest things about becoming a successful writer is getting your work read. Scribd.com is making that part easy. For those of you not familiar with the site, here’s an excerpt off...
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by Perverse Egalitarianism with a BADsentimentOverall mood: BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: extraordinary, happy, rich. Negative adjectives found in the text: stale, disagreeable, ignorant. Most frequent adjectives: poor. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
August 24, 2010 — I found The Madness of the Day (trans. Lydia Davis) on scribd: I am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little: I am alive, and this life gives me the greatest pleasure. And what about...
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July 21, 2010 — natehoy writes "Apparently, monitoring for copyright violations is not in itself a copyright violation, lawyers for Elaine Scott decided. As a result, they have dropped the lawsuit against Scribd, who was being...
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in News by TeleRead: Bring the...
July 20, 2010 — Self-publishing supersite Scribd is off the hook for copyright infringement , at least in one case, after a lawsuit against it was either settled or abandoned (depending on who you believe). The lawsuit in question charged...
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in Internet by AllThingsD
July 20, 2010 — Oh, the game of musical chairs in the digital sector never seems to stop. Here’s today’s Silicon Valley roundelay: Rob Macdonald (pictured here), head of traditional media and publisher partnerships at...
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in News by Techdirt with a BADsentimentOverall mood: BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: willing. Negative adjectives found in the text: ridiculous, odd. Most frequent adjectives: illegal, damned. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
July 19, 2010 — Last year, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre class action lawsuit filed against Scribd for copyright infringement. It was bizarre on multiple levels. First, the lawyers filing the lawsuit against...