Category: Policy

Not Everybody. But Passions Do Run High…

Fortune gave this piece a Diggbait title: Everyone Hates Comscore (I am quoted) But the truth is more like this: Everyone Wishes They Shared the Same Reality. The promise of online marketing is not yet delivered upon. Meanwhile, we have an arbiter that often seems disconnected from reality, at…

Fortune gave this piece a Diggbait title:

Everyone Hates Comscore (I am quoted)

But the truth is more like this: Everyone Wishes They Shared the Same Reality.

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I Love Baseball. I Don’t So Much Love the MLB

But they are learning. From Larry's blog: Russ Gooberman wrote to tell a happy story about Major League Baseball. ———- A month ago, I created a mashup clip of some MLB's All-Star Game Home Run Derby. Specifically, I wanted to feature the record-breaking home run streak of Texas Rangers…

But they are learning. From Larry’s blog:

Russ Gooberman wrote to tell a happy story about Major League Baseball.

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A month ago, I created a mashup clip of some MLB’s All-Star Game Home Run Derby. Specifically, I wanted to feature the record-breaking home run streak of Texas Rangers youngster, Josh Hamilton. So, I cut up some YouTube footage of his longest homerun of the contest, and set it to the audio of the final homerun sequence of the movie, The Natural. The next day, the mashup was featured on SportsIllustrated.com as their “Video of the Day.” Here’s My Mashup. The following day, MLB Advanced Media sent a trademark claim to YouTube, and had the video taken down.

….The interpretation of such an event in the public discourse is not for Major League Baseball to determine or influence. These events that affect our perceptions of our national pastime cannot be copyrighted. The discussion and dissemination of ideas relating to them cannot be censored. There are countless cases of MLB pursuing copyright infringements that go beyond their rights as copyright holders. Evidence of overzealous prosecution has been abundant. This Sisyphean struggle to stop any and all interpretations of MLB material will eventually fail.

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Google Clears “Abortion” As An AdWord

Google settled a suit in the UK around the issue of whether or not religious groups can buy the keyword "abortion." Long story short: They now can (via NYT). Expect a lot more of this kind of thing going forward. Google has the responsibility of being an arbiter of…

Google settled a suit in the UK around the issue of whether or not religious groups can buy the keyword “abortion.” Long story short: They now can (via NYT).

Expect a lot more of this kind of thing going forward. Google has the responsibility of being an arbiter of who can declare what online, and that responsibility will only increase.

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The Bailout

It's not related to the content of this site, but I am so damn mad about the financial bailout, mainly because the folks who profited the most from this mess are getting bailed out. So when I saw this post from Fred, summarizing Tom, I had to pass it…

It’s not related to the content of this site, but I am so damn mad about the financial bailout, mainly because the folks who profited the most from this mess are getting bailed out. So when I saw this post from Fred, summarizing Tom, I had to pass it along. I agree totally.

Rule #1: Cut salaries now

Part of the bailout bill ought to be that any organization which proffers securities for government purchase must agree not to pay any employee or contactor more than $1 million per year for the next four years. No cheating with trips to events on the corporate jet or other perks with draconian penalties TO THE RECIPIENT for violations.

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Google + GE = Boil the Energy Ocean

Still ill, but I can't help but read my email. This sounds very interesting: GOOGLE AND GE EXECUTIVES TO DISCUSS SOLUTIONS TO ENERGY CHALLENGES WHAT: Eric Schmidt and Jeff Immelt will discuss America's energy challenge and announce ways Google and GE will be working together to contribute to solutions….

Still ill, but I can’t help but read my email. This sounds very interesting:

GOOGLE AND GE EXECUTIVES TO DISCUSS SOLUTIONS TO ENERGY CHALLENGES

WHAT: Eric Schmidt and Jeff Immelt will discuss America’s energy challenge and announce ways Google and GE will be working together to contribute to solutions. A fact sheet with additional details will be emailed following the call at 3pm.

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Google Knows Privacy Is Its Achilles Heel

And it's getting very serious about addressing the issue. New terms for Chrome, new terms for IP addresses, new terms for Google Suggest. But there's more to do……

And it’s getting very serious about addressing the issue. New terms for Chrome, new terms for IP addresses, new terms for Google Suggest. But there’s more to do…

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And Google Knows…

….that what it knows is scary. Hence, this move. From the post on the Google Blog: Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to…

….that what it knows is scary. Hence, this move. From the post on the Google Blog:



Today, we’re announcing a new logs retention policy: we’ll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.

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And The Worm Slowly Turns

If you don't think this is keeping the folks up late at night over at Google, you're wrong. And if they are NOT up late at night, sell your shares. From the Journal piece: The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney…

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If you don’t think this is keeping the folks up late at night over at Google, you’re wrong. And if they are NOT up late at night, sell your shares. From the Journal piece:

The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.

Mr. Litvack’s hiring is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising deal with Yahoo Inc. The two companies combined would account for more than 80% of U.S. online-search ads.

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I Was Wondering … Matt Answers

I was wondering what data was sent to Google from Chrome users. Matt has the answers, and so far, seems innocuous….

I was wondering what data was sent to Google from Chrome users. Matt has the answers, and so far, seems innocuous.

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Google In the News

Google launches Ad Manager to the public and Google Suggest. Meanwhile, Street View keeps pushing the big question in our society: Where do we end and the public begins?…

Google launches Ad Manager to the public and Google Suggest. Meanwhile, Street View keeps pushing the big question in our society: Where do we end and the public begins?

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