ThePulp.Net is a fan-produced Web site devoted to the pulp magazines of the 1890s through the 1950s. ThePulp.Net debuted March 26, 1996, as .Pulp on America Online. Its initial concept was for a Web site devoted to The Shadow. But eventually that changed to encompass additional pulp characters and books. From the TPN site, “In…
US Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin has rejected a $125 million settlement between Google Books and the Authors Guild that would have brought an end to a six year long court battle. Here’s a snippet from the decision which explains why the judge rejected it: While the digitization of books and the creation of a…
Via Cynopsis Digital: Google is now enabling authors and publishers who sign off under various Creative Commons licenses to distribute their works for free using the Google Books platform. The highest profile comic-book that would be immediately eligible for inclusion would be Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now comic miniseries from IDW…
As part of iGoogle sponsoring the wi-fi at San Diego this year, they’ve also introduced a wide variety of comics themes that you can use to customize your iGoogle page– everything from Superman to Daniel Clowes (although, suprisingly, no Silver Surfer or Iron Man, and the web-slinger is Spider-Woman). And they’ve noted the occasion by…
We think. I’ve been getting notices from people all morning, saying that they’re receiving warning messages at PeterDavid.net or BobGreenberger.com because Google is claiming there’s a link to a malware site somewhere– not that they’re saying what page it’s on, or other things that might be useful to a webmaster trying to track down the…
Theater Hopper has been dropped from Google’s listings temporarily, due to some spam infesting its site code. Luckily, you know what helps sites get reindexed? Links. Links to some of the funny strips. Links to some of their poignant strips. Links to deep philosophical questions. Just links in general. And it really helps if you…
From TechCrunch via Tom Galloway: Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been scanned by Google so far, a large portion of them…
NASA and Google released a new Mars overlay providing 3D views of the canyons and mountains of the Red Planet, part of the beta launch of the downloadable Google Earth 5.0 client application. Now all we’re waiting for is for them to find this somewhere on the planet’s surface…
MyToons.com, the first and only online animation community to offer HD animation, announced on December 18 the launch of MyToons Live; MyToons.com’s latest collaboration with Google, utilizing the power of Google Earth technology. MyToons.com has built its reputation on connecting animators and fans around the world, and MyToons Live graphically represents their activity on a…
One of the reasons we love Google is that they know how to have fun. Throughout the year, usually around the holidays, they have interesting visual takes on their stark logo. Today, horror director Wes Craven has provided the Halloween edition.
Starting Wednesday, computer watchers can surf and find Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy at Google and assorted other sites. In a MacFarlane profile at today’s Wall Street Journal, the creator of Family Guy described how some 50 Cavalcade clips will be available at the rate of one per well. According to the article, “Google…
Today, Google will be launching their version of a web browser. Dubbed Chrome, it is said to be an open Source construct which began with the needs of today’s web users being taken into consideration. To make certain we understand why this is different than IE, Opera, Safari and Firefox, they hired Scott McCloud to…
