That’s what Monica Lewinsky tells us in her moving TED talk that has just come out, a talk that is a call for action against our “culture of humiliation”, magnified by the Internet, where, alas, cyber-bullying is too often the order of the day. You can see her talk here: It got a standing ovation,…
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Is the Amazon Customer Review System Broken?
In principle, book reviews spur sales. But on Amazon, they don’t seem to. Any author who’s following the sales of his/her books can testify to this: when good reviews come in, they rarely signal a spurt in sales. Yet book reviews are needed to be able to use the better advertisers like BookBub that will…
Why a Best Selling Author Turns to Crowdfunding
I interviewed indie author Marsha Roberts for Impakter to find out why she is turning to crowdfunding for her book, “Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer“, a highly acclaimed inspirational memoir that has sold very well so far, many thousands of copies. Here’s the article: Marsha Roberts, a “Mutinous Baby Boomer”, Turns to…
The Future According to Google
The United States has historically been a laboratory of the future for the rest of the world: I remember how I was awed when I arrived in New York in the 1960s and saw what the future looked like, with gigantic highways, sprawling suburbs and televisions everywhere. Now the US is doing it again, if…
To Publish AND Perish – Will the Tsunami of e-books Destroy our Culture?
This article was published on Impakter (under my real name, Claude Forthomme): To Publish and Perish Claude Forthomme on 20 August, 2014 at 09:00 Amazon and its 3.4 Million E-Books: the End of Culture? For a long while now, people have debated how many e-books Amazon carried it in its Kindle Store, because Amazon has…
Is Google Plus on its Way Out?
I just published one of my articles on a new cool magazine, Impakter. Here’s the opening: The geeks are convinced of it, Google is about to snuff out Google Plus. The younger generations, the Millenials in particular, consider Google+ a social media disaster. Something totally useless, even laughable. A month ago, Google Plus’ founding father,…
Too Much “Noise” on the Net: is “milq” the Answer?
We can all agree that we are bombarded with information and that most of it is useless. It’s coming at us from all directions: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Goodreads, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Tumblr, online magazines, blogs, the list is endless. We’re deafened with “noise” on the Net. And in all that “noise”, do you find what…
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