Big Tech Archives - One Honest Indie

The Final Part of the Antitrust Hearing Thing/Report/Recommendations

08/30/2022 by Debbi

Pretend this is me, not giving a damn. (Photo by Rebe Pascual on Unsplash)

Hi everyone. Well, I, this weekend I just had to kind of shut myself down a little bit. I mean, I actually went online both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday, it’s like, I started to think, what am I doing? What am I doing to myself? I’m going online every single day doing stuff. And I, I don’t think it’s good for me to do that. So I am seriously, seriously thinking of taking a break either on weekends or just one day of the weekend from all online activity. Seriously. I’m, I’m just really starting to think about that. Except maybe Duolingo. <Laugh> I like keeping up my, I know it’s an algorithm, but you know, I can’t help myself. Yeah. I’m addicted. That’s what happens. You become addicted to this stuff and it’s like, you have to do it or you feel like, oh, you know, I haven’t done something that I should. No, you don’t have to.

The Underreported Report from Congress

08/16/2022 by Debbi

More food for thought. (Photo by Rebe Pascual on Unsplash)

In retrospect, I should have done more of an introduction, explaining that this is a topic that should be discussed. It should be made, as they say, “part of the narrative.” 🙂

Hi, everyone. I’m gonna talk about something a little bit different today. I don’t know if you remember the hearings before the congressional subcommittee investigating competition and digital markets. They took testimony from the four companies there, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and somebody else. I don’t remember. Was it …Facebook! Facebook, of course. Facebook. So yeah, I always wondered what happened after that. This happened after that, this.

My Indie Publishing Story – Part Two

05/11/2021 by Debbi

In 2011, I blogged repeatedly about my concerns about Amazon. I made an analogy that people quite likely ~~thought was ridiculous~~ ~~was insane~~ ~~was inappropriate/offensive~~ never gave any credence to~~, assuming they gave a damn what I had to say~~.

But some authors flocked to the Internet giant. And others stayed staunchly indie, even though we would not get whatever ~~bribe~~ ~~special treatment~~ incentive we might get by being Amazon-exclusive.