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Let’s use the ‘No Track’ button we already have
(Cross-posted from the ProjectVRM blog.) For as long as we’ve had economies, demand and supply have been attracted to each other like a pair of magnets. Ideally, they should match up evenly and produce good outcomes. But sometimes one side … Continue reading
Posted in Berkman, Business, Law, problems, VRM
Tagged "do not track" "no-track", congress, crm, Julia Angwin, r-button, tracking, VRM, What They Know, White House
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The Data Bubble II
In The Data Bubble, I told readers to mark the day: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cluetrain, Events, Future, Journalism, Live Web, problems, VRM
Tagged iiw, John Battelle, Julia Angwin, Phil Windley, VRM, Wall Street Journal, What They Know, wtk
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Cookies for Kiddies
Back on July 31 I posted The Data Bubble in response to the first of The Wall Street Journal‘s landmark What They Know series of articles and Web postings on the topic of unwelcome (and, to their targets, mostly unknown) … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ideas, Life, News, Technology, VRM
Tagged Julia Angwin, Wall Street Journal, What They Know
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The Data Bubble
The tide turned today. Mark it: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of … Continue reading
What’s right with Wikipedia?
“I make my living off the Evening News Just give me something: something I can use People love it when you lose They love dirty laundry. — Don Henley, “Dirty Laundry” Look up “Wikipedia loses” (with the quotes) and you … Continue reading