Will Waugh at the Association of National Advertisers warns about advertisers’ “unknowing participation, through brokers, in spyware dissemination.”
This is a serious problem. Putting the scumbag spyware people aside, marketers – willingly or unknowingly – are the enablers.… Read the rest
Here’s my latest OnlineSpin Column in MediaPost:
THE PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN Life Project recently issued its Home Broadband Adoption 2006 report, which rightly devoted significant attention to consumer-generated media (CGM). Based on two U.S.… Read the rest
On net neutrality…PCMag.com reports that:
… Read the restBellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Tennessee said that they were unable to access them.
BellSouth customers filled the Technorati blog Thursday and Friday, complaining that they had not been able to access YouTube, which stores and plays back user-generated videos, and MySpace, a social networking site for teens.
They say that mobile phones are making pay phones irrelevant, resulting in an eventual, complete phase-out. This Verizon pay phone at the Pelham Bay number 6 subway station in New York is being phased out for other reasons…only in New York.… Read the rest
My six-week old IBM Thinkpad laptop died last week while writing an e-mail — the screen turned black then started flashing. On my end, there were no drops, no spills and no extreme temperature exposures. My advanced tech colleagues at work have tried endlessly to save my data.… Read the rest
