Year: 2011
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Tech's Relationship With Depression, Suicide and Asperger's
Originally published in ZDnet. As 2011 comes to a close, it's clear there is no question that tech culture has strong relationships with disorders and illnesses related to acute stress, depression, autism, and the tragedy of suicide. Tech culture is also no stranger to accusations among its ranks of both borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. The pressure to… Read more…
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11 Awesome Offbeat and Indie Amazon Kindle Fire Apps
Originally published in ZDnet. Many people got Kindle Fires for the holidays this year. It's no secret that I'm a big Kindle Fire fan, as you may have seen in the Kindle Fire vs. iPad ZDNet Great Debate at the end of November. I argued in favor of the Fire and won the debate, picking the… Read more…
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Sex Tech Weekly: Google Sex Protest, Vatican-dot-XXX, SOPA | ZDNet
Originally published in ZDnet. This week in sex and technology we saw sex workers staging a protest at Google, the Silicon Valley sperm donor was revealed as an exhibitionist (shocking, I know), a porn meme entered the congressional record, and more. Silicon Valley sperm donor had a hobby While the FDA cracked down on a… Read more…
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2011: Nymwars Year Zero
Originally published in ZDnet. Think the #nymwars are over? Last week in the Google Plus forums a woman made several posts, entreating the admin in desperation to help clear her name and restore her account. She has, in fact, submitted her passport to Google Plus as proof of identification. To no avail. Lets hope she… Read more…
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Sex Tech Weekly: SOPA Porn, Kindle Fire, WordPress.xxx, Facebook | ZDNet
Originally published in ZDnet. The intersections of sex and technology are where all the action happens – in every sense. Grab some popcorn and take a seat ringside for our new Friday feature: the Pulp Tech weekly sex and tech roundup. Pink Visual CEO called as expert witness in pornography sub-debate of live SOPA debate There… Read more…
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Amazon KDP Select Controversy: Golden Opportunity or Trap?
Originally published in ZDnet. Last Thursday, Amazon opened its KDP Select program to self-published authors and indie publishers. Indies can enroll qualifying books in the Kindle Owners Library program, making their books free for Prime customers to "borrow." Controversy and debate is heated on blogs, Kindle Boards and indie publishing communities. Some indies think this… Read more…
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Best Women's Erotica 2012
Buy here! Sexy, smart and literate: Best Women’s Erotica 2012 presents the year’s hottest bedside reading, curated by Cleis Press. There’s a hungry audience of readers who demand smart, literate, emotionally charged women’s erotica–stories that tell the truth about women’s sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with all its surprises and twists and… Read more…
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Why the problem with Siri matters
Originally published in ZDnet. A week ago, bloggers brought to light that Apple's voice-controlled mobile assistant Siri was delivering distressful omissions when asked about certain kinds of emergency healthcare situations. Specifically, situations that relate to female sexual emergencies. American bloggers in different locations were asking Siri to help them find abortion clinics, the morning after… Read more…
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Great Debate postmortem: Kindle Fire vs. iPad
Originally published in ZDnet. Last Tuesday's ZDNet Great Debate pitted Amazon's new Kindle Fire against Apple's iPad in a tablet-on-tablet fight to the finish for which slab would be this holiday's best pick for gadget gifting. Read the heated arguments: Great Debate: Kindle Fire or iPad: Which one should you buy? I didn't really expect… Read more…
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Offbeat Holiday Gifts for Geeks
Originally published in ZDnet. I don't know about you, but I'm the kind of gadget geek that likes to give really unforgettable tech-smart gifts. This list of offbeat gifts for geeks combines quirkiness with whipsmart engineering to create a hybrid of shopping list and personal wishlist. See also: Gifts That Keep On Giving: Offbeat Gadgets, Toys and… Read more…