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Blog: Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about stabbing that left him blind in one eye from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year agoAuthor was giving a public lecture at New York’s Chautauqua Institute last year when a man rushed the stage and stabbed him repeatedly
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Christian Writer's profile was updated 1 year ago
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Bob Bobson's profile was updated 1 year ago
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The Society of Authors demands transparency on publishers’ streaming deals with Spotify in the group Outside News: 1 year agoThe Society of Authors demands transparency on publishers’ streaming deals with SpotifyThe Society of Authors was deeply concerned last week to learn from press reports that ‘all major book publishers’ have agreed new limited str […]
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Blog: Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have ‘devastating effect’, says Society of Authors from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year agoThe industry body says the music giant’s move to make more than 150,000 titles available has not been discussed with authors and may compete with salesThe S […]
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Federation is alive? in the group Random Thoughts: 1 year agoFederation is alive?
Earlier, changes were made to my host’s configuration that now allows blogs hosted here to federate with the fediverse. This post describes the new feature. So federation is alive now? This is just a quick post testing the changes. Earlier I followed this blog from my Mastodon account so should see a post there once this…Read more -
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Author and playwright David Benedictus dies aged 85 in the group Outside News: 1 year agoAuthor and playwright David Benedictus dies aged 85Author and playwright David Benedictus has died suddenly at the age of 85, his family has said. The writer was best known for novels including […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Minor login niggle in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoThings can take a little time to trickle through. Keep an eye on the login and let me know if it crops up again.
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Danny H replied to the topic
Minor login niggle in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoWith the DDoS protection off, my AB blog now federates with the fediverse (@randomthoughts@randomthoughts.authorbuzz.co.uk). My AB blog isn’t showing as verified on my Mastodon profile yet, but I’ll check the settings, may just need more time.
On the login, not had any problems since reporting the issue, though I don’t know whether this is due…Read more
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Toni McHadden's profile was updated 1 year ago
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Updating profiles in the forum General Chat 1 year ago
I was thinking something similar. The extension that manages the profile fields does not immediately lend itself to repeatable fields. I was thinking about seeing if I could write an extension to handle it.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Minor login niggle in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoI’ve taken the steps to turn off the extra layer of DDoS protection that breaks ActivityPub and I hope this also sorts the cache situation out. If the problem persists let me know.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Minor login niggle in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoI think, I know how to take care of that. I believe it is aggressive caching.
Leave it with me. In the meanwhile, a page refresh usually does the trick.
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Blog: Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year agoThe author describes the book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, as ‘a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with a […]
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Danny H started the topic
Minor login niggle in the forum Help and Support 1 year agoWhen I go to AB, I’m able to log in on the home page, but after a robots check it takes me to a Wordpress page where I have to log in again
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Danny H replied to the topic Updating profiles in the forum General Chat 1 year ago
Being able to enter multiple blogs might be useful
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Danny H's profile was updated 1 year ago
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Blog: Word of the Day – Aole from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year agoThe post Word of the Day – Aole appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Books similar to Douglas Adams in the forum General Chat 1 year ago
It is not exactly the same as Adams but you may like Sir Terry Pratchett
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Matthew Brown started the topic Updating profiles in the forum General Chat 1 year ago
I’m seeing a number of “____ updated their profile” in the news feed. It seems you are finding the new expanded profile system. I’ve redesigned it to make your profile much better for promoting yourself and/or your services.
I’m taking requests for additional sections. No promises to implement them but every promise to give ideas fair consideration.
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Burty Burtman's profile was updated 1 year ago
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Bug fix: Forums in the group Help and Support: 1 year agoBug fix: Forums
Early this morning I fixed a bug that could, for some versions of certain browsers, cause the main forum page to look very silly. I have corrected the fault (that or flushing the cache fixed it). -
Blog: Andy Mitchell on the Future of Psychedelics from
The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year agoHosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Neil Gaiman on the antidote to rejection in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 year agoNeil Gaiman on the antidote to rejection
In this video, best-selling author Neil Gaiman talks about rejection and how to handle it.
