Like everything in life, when something becomes more mainstream, people start using it as a marketing ploy. The same thing has happened to the #ownvoices movement in the publishing industry: We Need Diverse Books announced that it will no longer refer to books using the term #OwnVoices. Instead, they will use “specific descriptions that authors…
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Texting codes
The codes used in texting are really a new language of their own. I mean, there are the common, obvious ones like LOL (laugh out loud), BTW (by the way) and gr8 (great), but then there are the rest which become a little more obscure…unless you are a teen in which case you have already…
Facebook furore
If you haven’t heard, last Thursday Australia woke up to a Facebook ban. All news, and pages with news, had been wiped. The history behind it is new legislation in Oz that requires outlets to pay for the news they are reporting… makes sense, news outlets need to make money too. Google threatened to pull…
Fake out
I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election. Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately. A…
For Andrew Lloyd Webber Fans…
Oh my gosh, I just heard about this and I have to share (I am a little excited)… Starting on Friday April 3, Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, in partnership with Universal, will offer free access to his back catalog of hugely successful musicals, including such megahits as ‘Cats’ and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.…