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The rest of 2009… Predictions

Posted by: seanxc on: February 28, 2009

First I’ll tell you what we won’t do in 2009. What we won’t do is look at the core of the problem. It will be another year of snafu. Online advertising and marketing is intrusive, annoying, difficult to produce, reviewed in isolation away from how it’s consumed, approved by cretins who do not want to [...]

It’s an honest living? Not quite according to Gallup.

Posted by: seanxc on: November 27, 2008

So Gallup released their “Annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions Survey“ this week, and guess what? We suck. We lie, cheat and steal. Advertising professionals rate only one notch above Stock Brokers. Stock Brokers!? This year, that ain’t saying much. Well, at least we’re above Congressmen. If we had been rated worse than them I’d [...]

There is no privacy online… accept it… and move on.

Posted by: seanxc on: November 18, 2008

I just spoke at the PIPA Conference on Security on Behavioral Targeting with James Bond. Yes, that’s his name. It was interesting to speak to so many people in one room whose job is to control, limit, and say “no.” I asked them to all introduce themselves to the person next to them and tell that person one thing about [...]