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An ad agency head called blogs “the toilet walls of the internet” after his campaign to cheer up German citizens (no, really) was roundly slammed for unknowingly using a Nazi slogan. He grudgingly apologized, but it’s obvious they had legit criticism.
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One of my FAVORITE Project Runway designers has a blog. I love him! (Sorry for interrupting your regularly scheduled technology programming with this queeny update.)
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Ultra-girly, ultra-awesome “secure” diary software on a memory key that comes with pictures, icons, and a version of MSN Messenger. Who knows how crackable this is (my guess: easy) but it’s a very cool idea. Would’ve loved this when I was 13.
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Details on Google’s (reprehensible) compliance with Chinese government search filters. Any smart user can circumvent the restrictions: the terms are case sensitive, for example. The filters are simply a way for the Chinese government to demonstrate power.
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EXCELLENT blog post about why IP addresses ARE personal information, though corporations do not consider them as such. They are used to track users online through banner ads, search results, targeted ads etc. and they are CLEARLY personality identifiable.
Re: girls’ diaries. Is it important that the diary be ultra-ultra secure, or just secure enough that the all-important page with the name of the crush may accidentally get out?
Just asking. I never understood psychology of any sort/
(reprehensible) compliance with Chinese government
Reprehensible? I was actually talking with some other work people about this on the ski trip, and we decided it was a complicated issue. Filtering is definitely bad, and we’d clearly prefer not to, but would it really be better to take the moral stand and not be allowed to operate within the country at all? How does that benefit the Chinese users? I guess this action might have been a very small push on the Chinese government in the direction of more online freedom, but really small you know?
I get tricky when you consider that it’s in Google’s financial interests to have made this decision so it’s easy to just say we did it for the money, but I certainly think we thought a lot more about the issues that Yahoo! or Microsoft. *shrug*
Blogs Outside of WritingUp.com Worth Visiting
I’ve been stopping by a lot of other blogs recently, just to see what people have to talk about. Here are 8 blogs you might be interested in reading, and maybe even getting into dialogue with:
1. Buzzmachine: Jeff Jarvis’ blog grapples with the futur…