wilwheaton.typepad.com - 2/26/2009
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There's quite a dustup at the moment about an editorial the president of the Author's Guild wrote in the New York Times , railing against Amazon's Kindle 2, which has a text to speech feature that he claims creates unauthorized derivative works and should be stopped at all costs. I'm not the ...
moviesblog.mtv.com - 2/20/2009
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Contributed by Wil Wheaton You may know Wil
Wheaton as Gordie in “Stand By Me,” or perhaps...
you know him as Wesley Crusher from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” We however, know him as a nerd god, who’s a walking encyclopedia of “Trek” and “Watchmen” ...
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jimhines.livejournal.com - 3/3/2009
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peachtess asked what I thought about the Kindle2
Text to Speech drama . In brief, Amazon's Kindle...
2 includes the ability to read a document out loud. The Authors Guild states that this falls under audio rights, and is therefore s a contractual ...
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Kindle Text to Speech
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Spectacularly Missing The Point About TTS
Lilith Saintcrow —
... .) I’m just going to point you at Wil Wheaton, who got together links to Scalzi, Gaiman, and Doctorow’s responses. Doctorow’s in particular seemed to go over the line into enraged. YMMV. ...
SF Tidbits for 2/28/09
SF Signal —
... @The Bat Segundo Show interviews Charlie Huston (The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death).
Authors reviewing Authors: Jo Walton on Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia. Cory Doctorow on Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days.
Responding to the recent nonsense surround the Kindle 2's ability to convert text to speech (which Amazon has even more recently crippled) , Wil Wheaton goes head-to-head with Text-to-speech Conversion.
Jennifer Pelland ...
Kindle Thoughts
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer —
... There’s a bunch of news and discussion online about the amazon Kindle ebook readers, the Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature, and ...
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authorsguild.org 2/11/2009 — Advocacy E-Book Rights Alert: Amazon's Kindle 2 Adds "Text to Speech" Function February 12, 2009. On Monday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reading device at the Morgan Library in New York. Most of the changes from the first ...
'The Guild' Adds Wil Wheaton, Rocks Comic-Con
news.tubefilter.tv 7/27/2009 — The Cast of The Guild at Comic-Con 2009 It was an entrance typically reserved for A-list movie stars, but at Comic-Con in San Diego this morning Felicia Day and the cast of The Guild got the rock star treatment. Hundreds of fans lined up hours before ...
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Geek Cred Episode #29 - Wil Wheaton
geekcred.net 2/5/2009 — This episode of Geek Cred features the one and only Wil Wheaton, actor, writer, and Uuml;ber geek best known for playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Will talks about growing up geek, what it was like on the set of Star Trek, his ...
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Wil Wheaton Interview Part Two
feeds.b5media.com 8/27/2009 — Part two of my chat with Wil Wheaton who guested on last night’s episode of Leverage. ( Read part one here )
Now that we’ve all seen the Leverage episode, can you talk more about the incident you referred to on your blog?
Wil Wheaton: Yes, sure. We were shooting a bunch of ...
StarShipSofa
sffaudio.com 2/13/2009 —
Listen NOW to the full Aural Delights No 63 John Scalzi mp3
Editorial: by Tony C Smith 01:42
Poem: Spot In Space by GO Clark 04:45
Flash: Jesus and the Cowboys by Jay Lake 07:00
Fact: Miles J Breuer by Amy H Sturgi s 13:22
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REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
sfsignal.com 1/7/2009 — MY RATING:
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A first contact story like no other -- aliens finally come to Earth, but because their forms are distasteful need an image makeover and hire a Hollywood agent introduce them to humanity.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: ...
Wil Wheaton’s MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
warrenellis.com 10/14/2009 — Today, Wil Wheaton releases his new book MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE (a title I think I’m responsible for talking him into using). All details, including the explanatory and funny foreword, are here at this link .
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wil wheaton gets lucky ... sometimes
wilwheaton.typepad.com 9/8/2009 — This was the ultimate highlight of my #PAX 2009, and watching it again just now brought tears to my eyes again. I'm not worthy of something this awesome. Thank you Jonathan, and Paul, and Storm, and Molly for making me feel cool. I <3 you ...