Your Right to Comment Here

January 10, 2012

Photograph by Matthew Hull. You have the right to say whatever you want online. You can say it in the comment section below or you can say it on your own blog. You can visit an internet newspaper and comment there too. But you do not have the right to expect a response. Do you [...]

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Fight U.S. Government Internet Censorship

November 15, 2011

The video above discusses the U.S. Senate version of the PROTECT IP Act, but the House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is worse. If passed by Congress, the government will receive new powers to block Americans’ access to websites that corporations don’t like. Think about the number of videos you record and upload to [...]

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Yes, You Can Steal This Blog

March 21, 2011

You read that title correct. This is not a new concept. More and more blog writers are opening the floodgates and insisting the world steal their content. If you read something in these articles that inspire you to share it somewhere else, go on and copy and paste it. While it would be nice to [...]

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Is Age Verification on Beer Websites Effective?

January 11, 2011

Page 8 of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s 2008 report on self-regulation in the alcohol industry includes statistics, facts, and recommendations about age verification systems on websites: Visit the websites of Bud Light, Michelob Ultra, Guinness, or Lone Star, and you can see the age selectors. Care to guess how many teenage web surfers lie [...]

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Internet Sales Taxes are Coming…

October 18, 2010

If Massachusetts Congressman Bill Delahunt has his way, the Main Street Fairness Act will become the law of the nation and an estimated $23 billion from online transactional sales taxes will be collected in 2012. House Resolution 5660 aims to create a national definition for all 50 states to use to set taxes on internet [...]

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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

July 16, 2010

If the above title drew you in, good. Keep reading. Thousands (millions?) of bloggers and other webmasters around the world use a free tool called Google Analytics to track website visitors and click-through metrics. I use it, and many bloggers I know also do. We’re all using it illegally. Before installing the customized JavaScript code [...]

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Got a Facebook Fan Page? BEWARE!

February 11, 2010

This is Peggy (not her real name, I don’t think). She likes Nikon cameras so much she created a Facebook fan page last year. Word of mouth spread and over 5,000 people are fans of the page. You’re the marketing manager at Nikon. You want to create a fan page, recognize Peggy did all this [...]

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Be Careful Online: Big Brother is Watching

May 8, 2009

The following text is a reproduction of my last blog post, titled, Or Pnershy Bayvar: Ovt Oebgure Vf Jngpuvat. Reactions were mixed. Jon Bishop deciphered it and commented in kind. Jillian York thought it was Icelandic. And Jeff Hurt is apparently unsubscribing from my blog feed as a result. So. Here is it again; and [...]

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