The Big Lesson From the Facebook Flap: The Digital Ad Business Needs to Regulate Itself

If you were Mark Zuckerberg today, you’d be forgiven for extending your Memorial Day vacation an extra 24 hours and do whatever it is you would do for fun if you were Mark Zuckerberg Weeks of getting pounded in the media over your company’s approach to privacy had amounted to nothing more a particularly pesky […]

An Imaginary(ish) Conversation Between Carol Bartz and Mark Zuckerberg

Yesterday was a big day, PR-wise, for Mark Zuckerberg and Carol Bartz. Zuck used the austere pages of the Washington Post to soothe concerns about Facebook’s will to invade privacy, while Bartz showed up on stage at a TechCrunch conference to defend Yahoo against one of its loudest critics, TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington. Both CEOs […]

The Facebook Exodus Will be Small — And Very Canadian

When May 31 rolls around, I’ll do what I do on the last day of every other month: Pay my rent and some other bills, go to work and come home. What I won’t be doing is quitting Facebook, despite the best efforts of some to turn the day into a mass rejection of the […]

The Varieties of Facebook Revolt

Facebook has gone and done it again. Yet another round of changes has sparked a wave of revulsion that hasn’t been seen since, well, the last time Mark Zuckerberg altered the way you and your information are used by the massively popular social network. To an increasing number of people who think about the Internet, […]

Was Gawker’s Decision to Identify the ‘Racist’ Harvard Emailer Unethical? We Say Yes.

The notion of online privacy may be nothing more than a “fallacy,” as one New York judge recently opined, but anyone concerned with both the free-flow of information and with being fair to the subjects of news coverage will confront this question:  Do bloggers and journalists have a responsibility to protect the identities of the […]