You know Dennis Johnson may be serializing his new novel in Playboy, but I'm still not gonna buy Playboy. That's a problem with publishing fiction in a magazine that people are embarrassed to have around the house.
Meanwhile, Internet service providers want to start metering bandwidth usage again, but if you ask me it'll never work. As long as any ISP (and independent ISPs are legion) offers unlimited bandwidth no one will want an ISP that doesn't. However, apparently Time Warner is already rolling this out in Texas, so what do I know? Here's what I know: Time Warner is my Internet service provider right now. If they start limiting the amount I can download, I'm dropping them like a hot potato.
Here's another writer offering his book as a free download. Is it any good? I don't know, though I've already downloaded it. I'll probably even read it. I'm just waiting for the iPhone/iPod Touch app store to come online so I can get a decent PDF reader on my iPod. I know, I know, I should jailbreak the thing, but even jailbroken apps don't have a real PDF reader available, one that allows bookmarking of pages, and you have to download a completely separate file system app to transfer files over to the thing in the first place. Me, I'll wait for the real deal.
Finally, the Associated Press doesn't seem to understand the concept of fair use because they want to start charging you to quote as little as five words from them. And so, "Welcome to a world in which you won’t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you’ll be required to pay to quote as few as five words from what they publish. What a bunch of assholes.