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Political candidate shopping

Let’s go shopping. I thought it would be interesting to visit Presidential candidates’ campaign websites like shoppers. We’re...

Obama campaign promotes Facebook timeline covers, shows social media awareness

The Obama campaign spanned three social networks with one tweet and one word Saturday, Feb. 11, to share a Tumblr blog containing Facebook timeline...

Ahead of 2012 Elections, beware of polls

Some pundits believed polls cited repeatedly by media in 2008 were actively used in an effort to elect President Barack Obama. As Web media have...

Raising awareness is no excuse

The shield of “raising awareness” comes up a lot in my arguments about PETA tactics. I find no matter what criticism I make about...

Lesser evils

John stabs five people a day. Bob stabs one person a day. Is Bob less harmful than John? Clearly. By a simple comparison we can accurately say that...

The appearance of the first true vampire cafe

In 2007 a flood of spectacularly innovative direct marketing filtered through a variety of avenues from parcel mail to billboards and the internet...

New laws will demand transparency from bloggers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to the lack of transparency in product endorsements on Internet forums and blogs by amending the...

Modified plans for consumer agency still doomed to fail

Last week, Representative Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, made a push to scale back the proposal for the Consumer...