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It is rare I read a story and find it’s so engrossing, so demanding of my attention, that I feel I need to drop everything and blog about it now. This is one of those stories. A recent Mashable article highlights the latest hoax making the rounds on Twitter (and probably other social media as [...] Again, before I get into discussing exactly what this email is about, I need to lay down the background on who’s who and what’s what. Otherwise, it’s easy for one to gloss over all of this and assume it doesn’t affect oneself, when in reality this potentially affects or could affect a large chunk of [...] I know I’m running a bit behind on this one, but this is an egregious enough example of political manipulation and misuse of the term “census” that I feel I need to say my piece about it. Several blogs, including MOMocrats and PRWatch, covered a ruse by the Republican National Committee. The RNC made this [...] Sometimes Apple is not to blame for everything, though I would like to think there is a way they can put a sock in this problem. Gagan Biyani writing for MobileCrunch reports on the latest problem to hit Apple’s iPhone App Store: completely fake reviews planted there by PR firms. Reverb Communications is a PR [...] Recap: In our last episode, I had just revealed how Jason Hoeffer used an offsite Javascript link to fool naive potential customers into thinking he was from the same city they were living in. I continued posing as a potential customer, and clicked the “click here” link that purports to be available for only the [...] On a recent visit to Facebook, I stumbled across an ad which links to a Web site jasongetsrich.com showing a $5000 check from Google, and the opening line “Get paid $5 to $30 for every website link that you post on Google.” The most obvious item I found, however, was that the paragraph after the [...] |
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