Ctrl-Shift is at it again with a new report on privacy from an e-retailer perspective. The report is free with registration: http://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/shop/product/60 The data set is for sale: http://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/shop/product/61 Ctrl-Shift scored the privacy policies of the IMRG Hitwise TopShop list of 100 online retailers against ten key questions including how clearly the privacy policy is written, […]
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Information overload is not unique to Digital Age
5 February 2012 by
It is a constant complaint: We’re choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping. But wait, says Harvard professor Ann Blair in an NPR radio program — this is not a new condition. It’s been part of the human experience for […]
It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web
4 February 2012 by
The date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web. See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very […]
I’m A New York Times Subscriber, So Where’s My Tote Bag?
4 February 2012 by
The New York Times released its latest earnings report earlier this week, spurring another round of discussion about the newspaper’s paywall, which was launched near the beginning of last year. The consensus: Early signs are positive, but it’s not doing well enough to offset plummeting print ad revenue.