Tag Archives: MediaPost

Ben & Jerry’s Wants You To Twecycle

Call them Tweetovers Tweftovers – those unused characters out of the 140 allotted for each message on Twitter. God – and Biz Stone – only knows how many orphaned characters there are in the Twitterverse every day. But now someone … Continue reading

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The Sneak in Review (Ethics Code Edition)

Via Sneak ADtack: Dispatches from the stealth marketing front: U.S. Senate Goes Public on Privacy Well, one U.S. Senator, anyway. From Adweek: Senate’s Privacy Hearing Draws Many Spectators, Few Lawmakers Session turns into one-man show led by Sen. John Kerry There was a … Continue reading

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‘History Sniffers’ Take It On The Nose

The New York woman who sued the behavioral advertising network Interclick last month for “history sniffing” (Sneak ADtack post here) is now suing Interclick’s clients, specifically McDonald’s, CBS, Mazda, and Microsoft. As MediaPost reports: In a complaint filed Tuesday with the U.S. District Court … Continue reading

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Cable TV’s Must-Kerry Provisions

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D-Am I President Yet?) is apparently up to his old tricks. From MediaPost: Kerry Waffles, Retrans Burns Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was branded a flip-flopper during his 2004 presidential run. Notably, there was his infamous comment … Continue reading

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Caveat Commenter

A cautionary tale, via MediaPost: Woman Travels 200+ Miles to Kill Internet Commenter Forget all those pleas for civility based on simple respect for other human beings. There’s an even better reason to watch what you say about other people … Continue reading

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America-the-Crude Patrol (pat. pending)

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Digg-ing A Hole For Liberals?

Not vouching for this item (via MediaPost), just saying: Are ‘Digg Patriots’ A Harbinger Of What’s To Come With Crowd-Sourced Editorial Tools Albeit on a very slow news day, the industry is buzzing about popular link-sharing Web site Digg, and … Continue reading

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New Word o’ the Day (pat. pending)

Here’s one the hardworking staff hasn’t come across before (via MediaPost): A suspected malvertiser — a group buying online display ads as a means of distributing malicious code – appears to be posing as a bona fide advertising agency representing … Continue reading

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