Mobile Ad Space Bursting With Potential but Few Experts

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:07 p.m.
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First smartphones were redefined as powerful social media/Net devices and then: Boom! The advertising industry grabbed on in search of new sources of cash income. But the new ad business are finding everything a bit new and scary, and are still finding their feet ... Apple's iAd Slow Off the Starting Block ... There's been a bit of buzz about Apple's innovative rich-content iAd system recently. Firstly it was reported to be a success, with developers and ad partners finding the whole system

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Facebook's Dislike Button a Rogue Spam Scam

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:23 p.m.
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Behold, the new Dislike button for Facebook users, an idea mooted on this very website last year. Only it's not a button, it's not from Facebook, and it can access your Facebook account. The BBC reports that the scam installs a rogue application, "which does not function as a dislike button" it reiterates, for those of you who are still not quite sure whether it's kosher or not ... On the surface, the user's Facebook page updates with a link and a message. "I just got the dislike button, so now

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McStatins Happy Meal Would Prevent Heart, Big Mac Attacks: Frustrated Cardiologist

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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If, and exactly how, governments should regulate fast food joints has been a much-discussed topic of conversation for decades. And it's still a largely unresolved matter, which is why one U.K. cardiologist has come up with a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"-style solution: Fast food restaurants should give away free drugs to help combat heart disease. Meanwhile, as the science of fast, cheap DNA testing advances in leaps and bounds, the U.S. government is pondering a bizarre and icky

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Foursquare Shut Down in China

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Published June 4, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.
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Foursquare may be many things--from a promotional advert system to a highly addictive and competitive game--but did you think it could be a tool for political dissent? The Chinese authorities think so, and appear to have banned it ... The U.K.'s Telegraph paper is reporting that "according to some sources" access to Foursquare has been shut down in mainland China. The reasons behind the censorship haven't been explained, but it's pretty typical behavior from a government that has regularly

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When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 1

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Published May 23, 2010 at 4:37 p.m.

This cast describes some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough ...

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When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 2

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Published May 30, 2010 at 8:45 p.m.

This cast concludes our conversation on some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough ...

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How Technology Thwarts the Real-Life Nurse Jackie

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Published May 10, 2010 at 4:46 p.m.
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Randy Lipps, CEO of Omnicell, knew his medical surveillance technology was working when a certain hospital group (kept anonymous because of medical privacy concerns) reported a sharp spike in actions taken against staff for swiping drugs ... Nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs according to the DEA, more than the number abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and inhalants, combined -- an 80% increase over 2000. Some of that is average folks and their kids taking

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The lack of civility has me disgusted

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Published March 24, 2010 at 12:57 p.m.

Bob Herbert has a powerful column today about the lack of civility in public discourse, especially as practiced and encouraged by Republican activists. He opens with this disturbing encounter: ... A group of lowlifes at a Tea Party rally in Columbus, Ohio, last week taunted and humiliated a man who was sitting on the ground with a sign that said he had Parkinson’s disease. The disgusting behavior was captured on a widely circulated videotape. One of the Tea Party protesters leaned over the man

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Chickens have come home to roost (or something): Democrats and Republicans paying the price

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Published March 22, 2010 at 1:29 p.m.

The healthcare debate happening now, let's face it, is the result of the decisions the Democratic and Republican parties have "evolved" (and I use that word advisedly) over the years ... RINO Whinos ... The bad behavior of the GOP is just the tip of the iceberg of the Republican sell-out back in the 1960s. That's when the religious conservatives, empowered by Barry Goldwater's loss in the presidential campaign of 1964, surged into power and moved the GOP from being about fiscal conservatism and

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