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U.S. to Turn Over Control of the Internet

Performance Marketing

The United States will begin a process to relinquish its administrative control over of key function of the Internet by September 2015, federal officials said late this afternoon. Since the [...]


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Reflections On Life, Publishing, And Bridging Reality in 2013 – 2014

Media

Like most everything else on this planet my newsletter "Heard on the Web" has been an evolutionary process of unscripted events, plan-less right from the very beginning (circa 1992). I [...]

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Demand Media: A Story of Garbage In, Garbage Out

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Earlier this week we aggregated a news item by Variety that reported on the downfall of content farming operation Demand Media. I suppose you shouldn't relish in someone else's failure, [...]

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The Lawmaker’s Internet Trick or Treat

Performance Marketing

What are the worst laws threatening the Internet? NetChoice has a list for that. For the fifth year, NetChoice, a public policy organization that promotes Internet innovation, has surveyed the [...]

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When Companies Lose Customers …

Performance Marketing

United Parcel Service suffered staggering customer defection as a consequence of its 15-day Teamsters work stoppage in 1997. The result was that, even after their 80,000 drivers were back behind [...]

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Beat Big Data with Deep Data

Media

Big Data killed the value of unique B2C audiences before we called it Big Data. It's been years since someone selling cars has needed to advertise on a car enthusiast [...]