A friend of mine (who prefers to remain anonymous) points out today that the " ne ws " is once more going round that users of Facebook and other social network are putting themselves at risk of identity fraud by publishing personal details on their pages. Drawing on data from Factiva, and using the search terms "Facebook" and "identity theft" (see chart above and left), he concludes: "I remember reports from late last year about the problem, and there
does indeed seem to have been a local peak in reports of the matter in
December. People grew increasingly weary of writing about it, however,
such that by April 2007 only four newspapers bothered talking about it.
Despite this, interest gained a resurgence and by August more articles
were published on the risks of identity theft that in any month before
that. September was then the second most popular month to publish
articles about it, and in October they went mad again - such that more
articles were publ...
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Not with a whimper but a bangFrom: virtualeconomics.typepad.com
Post Date: 2006-05-17 11:03:17
The term "tipping point" is one the most over-used and miscontextualised I see every day, and it is therefore with a due sense of wearniness and dread that I drag it out and apply it to a potential change to the US newspaper ad maket. Alan Mutter today comments that retail analysts at Deutsche Bank are predicting Macey’s will cut its US newspaper spend in half by 2008. He puts this in context: "Federated and the newly acquired May Department Stores last year spent
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Post Date: 2007-11-14 05:48:01
Last week I commented on the fatuity of Mark Zuckerberg’s contention that on Facebook there would be "no opting out of advertising". Whether people opt out of Facebook advertising isn’t within Facebook’s gift. (You think TV channels want people to ignore their ads? TiVO nonetheless provides.) I claimed at the time that if people want not to see ads on Facebook, they’ll install ad blocking technology. Today Adverlab posts a variety of Greasemonkey add-ons t...
more A post from 2020From: virtualeconomics.typepad.com
Post Date: 2007-11-13 05:14:08
A little explanation. Shane Richmond dropped me a note last week to say that he plans to run a series of posts by the people who appeared in his " essential journalism posts ", on the theme of "a post from 2020", looking back over the twelve and a bit years in (what I am interpreting) is supposed to be a Googlezon -esque look at the future of digital media. Or, I gather, pretty much whatever we like. Sounds like a fun idea, so here goes... I can’t believe it’s almost twe...
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