AmazonFail: Day Three
Honestly, I am getting a little tired of this. Or maybe just generally tired, looking at the time I went to bed last night. I don't know. I'd like to post ideas about a prospective term paper I have that I won't, for once, cram on top of the usual end-of-semester (because it's going to be about Tolkien, provided it gets OKed), gush about the lecture on 20th century English poetry (though looking at the flist I'd mostly be preaching to the converted), and maybe squee a little that it still feels like early summer and that I so far managed to avoid The Person I'd Rather Not Meet (from here on in, PIRNM). But AmazonFail is still happening, and like I promised, another roundup of links just gathered. Will be ETA'd this evening after class, and maybe I'll get a boring regular post in then as well. So for now, just a list of links without much commentary. Maybe it will prove useful for some people.
My First Roundup
My Second Roundup
afterthree excellent roundups on Day One and Day Two.
SeattlePi on Amazon's answer, and they also found another Amazon employee offering an inside look at what happened. Before, we had this (copied from my last post): It appears like (some?) GLBT ranks are being restored. Still no word from Amazon, though, except that it defitely wasn't a glitch: Feministing has word from an Amazon Rep saying that 'no human is responsible for this'.
Hashtag Statistics for #amazonfail. Just as a reminder, #amazonfail on Twitter, though it's less active now, probably because it's late/early in the US. There also is #sorryamazon by now, though it looks like it is mostly used in the same manner as #amazonfail.
Amazon news releases keeps its silence. However, the case continues to make news: CNN, BBC, LA Times and LA Times again, on the reranking of affected titles, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily News (mainly on the usefulness of Twitter in organising; interesting), Silicon Republic, Gawker/Valleywag, Silicon Republic, The Malaysian Insider, Fudzilla still speculates on the hacker scenario, TechRadar says Amazon needs to join the twitterstorm, Brand Republic on Amazon's ham-fisted error and on possible damage done, Topnews.in, January Magazine, The Consumerist cries 'troll' (and lists explanation by weev, Boing Boing, Business Insider, oQLZ.
And some German news as well: Focus, Blu.fm, Die Presse, Shortnews, Krimiblog remains doubtful. Most of these aren't so up to date (and for that matter, some of the above aren't), but I decided to include them for completeness' sake.
On new media vs. old media.
Psychology Today on the Twitter that roarded and the power of social media.
Kiwiburger on The Wisdom, Anger and Madness of Crowds.
Shiny Librarian on Pervasive Amazon and possible consequences. Excellent read.
Richard Eoin Nash on the breach of the social contract that happened during #amazonfail.
Edward Champion calls for a boycott on April 12th, and gets a response by Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith who is, however, still not answering questions.
phase.org has a list of things they want to see adressed.
My First Roundup
My Second Roundup
afterthree excellent roundups on Day One and Day Two.
SeattlePi on Amazon's answer, and they also found another Amazon employee offering an inside look at what happened. Before, we had this (copied from my last post): It appears like (some?) GLBT ranks are being restored. Still no word from Amazon, though, except that it defitely wasn't a glitch: Feministing has word from an Amazon Rep saying that 'no human is responsible for this'.
Hashtag Statistics for #amazonfail. Just as a reminder, #amazonfail on Twitter, though it's less active now, probably because it's late/early in the US. There also is #sorryamazon by now, though it looks like it is mostly used in the same manner as #amazonfail.
Amazon news releases keeps its silence. However, the case continues to make news: CNN, BBC, LA Times and LA Times again, on the reranking of affected titles, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily News (mainly on the usefulness of Twitter in organising; interesting), Silicon Republic, Gawker/Valleywag, Silicon Republic, The Malaysian Insider, Fudzilla still speculates on the hacker scenario, TechRadar says Amazon needs to join the twitterstorm, Brand Republic on Amazon's ham-fisted error and on possible damage done, Topnews.in, January Magazine, The Consumerist cries 'troll' (and lists explanation by weev, Boing Boing, Business Insider, oQLZ.
And some German news as well: Focus, Blu.fm, Die Presse, Shortnews, Krimiblog remains doubtful. Most of these aren't so up to date (and for that matter, some of the above aren't), but I decided to include them for completeness' sake.
On new media vs. old media.
Psychology Today on the Twitter that roarded and the power of social media.
Kiwiburger on The Wisdom, Anger and Madness of Crowds.
Shiny Librarian on Pervasive Amazon and possible consequences. Excellent read.
Richard Eoin Nash on the breach of the social contract that happened during #amazonfail.
Edward Champion calls for a boycott on April 12th, and gets a response by Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith who is, however, still not answering questions.
phase.org has a list of things they want to see adressed.