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When I saw this product tag on a tent at EMS, the world stopped making sense
The tag showed a brave young adventurer navigating the wilds by sitting inside a tent and staring at the screen of his laptop. Sorry, no photo. Just a word-picture today. Let’s interpret the image, and be a bit dramatic about … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged advertising, computers, Culture, disconnection, EMS, forest, Internet, nature, relaxation, society, tent, tents, vacation, work
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We will pay for privacy in the future
Privacy advocates aren’t done with Facebook yet, as is explained in this ReadWriteWeb post. The EFF, ACLU and others are asking for even more control to be given back to users when it comes to sharing their info on Facebook, … Continue reading
Posted in privacy
Tagged american civil liberties union, business, data, electronic frontier foundation, Facebook, Internet, journalism, privacy, revenue
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Link: Make an organized jukebox out of the entire Internet with ExtensionFM
Home – ExtensionFM This extension keeps track of any MP3s you come across on any Web page and “automatically creates a library of those songs for you to enjoy.” Brilliant, but it only works with Chrome.
Recommendations from ethnographic report on addressing the failures of one-way, bombardment-oriented advertising
The Associated Press, Context-Based Research Group and Carton Donofrio Partners investigated what online information devourers think of advertisements. This study builds off and references a previous one (pdf here) about news consumption. The main problem they’re addressing is the atomization … Continue reading
Posted in News Business
Tagged Associated Press, blogs, context, Context-Based Research Group, conversations, Donofrio Partners, ethnographic, ethnography, information, Internet, media, news, reports, studies, trust, Twitter, Web
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Writers, this is why you love and hate the Web
Writers, if you’re like me, you may feel like puking your soul along with your breakfast each day you sit in front of your computer and try to type into existence a meal to feed the perpetually famished beast call … Continue reading