Potter Fans' New Nemesis? The Web.
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Harry Potter fans: Beware of the Internet! The last installment of the boy wizard's saga is supposed to be kept secret until Saturday, but photographs and scanned copies of each page of the unreleased book -- both real and fake -- are already circulating on the Web.
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Author JK Rowling has warned Harry Potter fans to watch out for Internet fraudsters claiming to sell electronic copies of her latest wizard saga -- they are trying to steal bank and credit card details.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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A new project called Digital Universe aims to make information on the Web better organized and more authoritative
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Wikipedia has started to hit the big time.  Accordingly, several critical     articles have come out, including "The Faith-Based     Encyclopedia" by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very     widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as "When     Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive".    These articles are written by people who appear not to appreciate the merits of Wikipedia fully.  I do, however; I co-founded Wikipedia.  (I have since left the project.)    Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue.  These problems     could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem.  If the project's     managers are not willing to solve it, I fear a fork (a new edition under new     management, for the non-techies reading this) will probably be necessary.
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How does J.K. Rowling feel now that she has finished the seventh and final Harry Potter book? As the author herself confided Tuesday on her Web site, "Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could":
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The New York Times and the  Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book  on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging response  from author J.K. Rowling.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging response from author J.K. Rowling.
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Only 'folksonomy' inspires more fear and loathing It's official: "folksonomy", "blogosphere", "netiquette" and "blook" are among the net-spawned terms which should be cast down into the eternal fires of hell, AFP reports.â¦
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Web services that plumb for consumer views, helpful and hurtful.
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College sports fans descend upon wildly popular Web sites like TexAgs.com with their team musings and, at times, the kind of insider information that can doom a rival to N.C.A.A. purgatory.
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A file-sharing website is ordered to reveal the names of users who posted copies of JRR Tolkien's novels online.
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JK Rowling, the author of the wildly successful Harry Potter series, confirmed on her website that one of the characters in the books would die by the end of the seventh book.
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In the final days before the world learns whether Harry Potter lives or dies, spoilers &#151; or those pretending to spoil &#151; are spreading on the Internet.
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'You are such an anti-semitic turd' FoTW Regular readers will be aware of the Vulture Central tradition which dicates that you're not a fully-fledged Reg hack until you've been subjected to a vicious outburst of e-anger from some reader with steam coming out of his or her ears.â¦
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A hacker going by the handle of "Gabriel" has claimed to have hacked the publishers of the "Harry Potter" books in London. He has posted the answer to the question of who dies in the last novel in a attempt to ruin the surprise for Potter fans everywhe...
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The author pleads to Potter fans to preserve the secrecy of the last book.