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Strange Adfellows for Net Neutrality: AT&T and . . . Burger King?
As the rumpus over the fate of net neutrality continues, it’s not just 21 states and the District of Columbia pushing back against the FCC decision to neuter neutrality. It’s also advertisers. Exhibit AT&T: This full-page ad that’s been running … Continue reading
Blogola Goes Big-Time in Mainstream Media
For several years now the hardtracking staff has noted the growing use of blogola in violation of Federal Trade Commission guidelines, from Lord & Taylor’s paying 50 bloggers under the table to wear a dress from its Design Lab clothing collection and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogola, blogolanaut, Business Insider, Design Lab, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Federal Trade Commission, Forbes, FTC, Honda, Huffington Post, HuffPost, Inc., Jason Feifer, John Biggs, Jon Christian, Lord & Taylor, Mario Ruiz, Mashable, pay-for-bray, TechCrunch, The Outline, Varun Satyam
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Why We’re Confused About Social Media and Brand Marketing
Because we’re all about you splendid readers, the hardworking staff is working hard to stay on top of marketing trends in social media networks. But we have to admit our head kind of exploded when we read yesterday’s Mediabistro’s Morning … Continue reading
Bing Bling For Schools
From our Late to the Party Favors desk This ad appeared in Sunday’s New York Times: Which got the hardwondering staff to wondering: What’s that all about? Just this (via PRNewswire): REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bing launched a free, national … Continue reading
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Tagged Bing, Bing for Schools, ComScore, Google ceiling, Microsoft, New York Times, PRNewswire, search engines, Surface RT tablets, TechCrunch, verbed
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Facebook Members To Vote On Whether They Can Vote
From our M.C. Escher desk As the hardtracking staff has noted this past week, Facebook is trying to turn the last vestiges of its Faceocracy into a Zuckocracy. Specifically, the billion-strong social network wants to terminate the voting power of its members over changes … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Faceocracy, M.C. Escher, privacy, Sneak ADtack, TechCrunch, vote, Zuckocracy
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New Paywall – Sorry, “Membership Program” – At The Los Angeles Times
The hardworking staff just received this email from the LA Times: Dear Readers, We are making an exciting change to latimes.com, and we want you to be the first to know how we’re evolving. NEW LOS ANGELES TIMES MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM On … Continue reading
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Tagged Los Angeles Times, Membership Program, paywall, TechCrunch
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The Case Of The Missing Link (NYT Division)
Right after the hardworking staff wrote about the New York Times’ failure to credit the Nation for its groundbreaking investigation of the U.S. military’s digraceful personality disorder discharges, this turns up in GigaOM (via Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed): Is linking … Continue reading
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