Associate's Mind

A couple of days ago I received an email encouraging me to cheat. It was from Twitter. Here is the pertinent part of the message: Twitter was offering two methods of advertising. Neither involved any sort of ad placement or banner placement. Rather they offered: Promoted Accounts  Promoted Tweets Why is this cheating? Because, whether you realize it or [...]

  Here is an email I just received, contact information redacted: Keith, I am writing to introduce myself as the new media contact for Lawyers.com, the leading legal website for consumers and small businesses. A division of LexisNexis, Lawyers.com has useful information on all legal topics, connects consumers with lawyers in their area for their legal [...]

  N.I.N.J.A - No Income, No Job, or Assets Often used in context with loans, it also applies to so-called social media “experts.” There has been a ridiculous rise fo people claiming to be some sort of expert or professional or guru in social media in the past few years. How many? Try this on for size: So [...]

  I’ve already told you about how you don’t own your video games. I’ve already told you about how you don’t own your books. And if you haven’t already heard, while you do own your photos, you’re licensing them away for free – at least if they’re on Instagram. Some or all of the service [...]

  Oddly enough, the internet is actually quite old school when it comes to relationships. Trust is given on first impressions. It’s essentially all a handshake deal. How Google Works A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm based on the webgraph, created by all World Wide Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as edges, taking into consideration authority [...]

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  Want deep insight into what the younger generation thinks of laws? The deep and abiding knowledge they have? See this thread on Reddit: Lawyers of Reddit, What are Some Interesting Laws/Loopholes? There are nearly 10,000 posts, of which maybe .01% were actually written by lawyers. Want some highlights? I guarantee I’ve watched more Law [...]

  Back in 1996, like most people, I was using a 56k baud modem to dial into AOL in order to hook up to the internet. Yes, the internet existed back then even if you didn’t know what it was. At the time, AOL was a “safe harbor” of sorts. An intermediary step between the user [...]

  Starting last Wednesday my schedule has been incredibly busy. Between work, family, and fitness – something had to push – and it was any online activities. The weekend hit and spent I most of it running errands, more time with the family, hobbies, etc. It was almost with dread that I opened my RSS [...]

Bad SEO Advice May Support Negligence Claim–D’Agostino v. Appliances Buy Phone | Technology & Marketing Law Blog Probably not good news for all those social media gurus out there. Gang Used 3D Printers for ATM Skimmers | KrebsonSecurity Interesting in light of yesterday’s post on 3D printing. Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build [...]