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28 February 2003   

 

Anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

"The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy. Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance."

Excellent! A script to fight back with. Not that I'm pestered by calls. But next time, it'll be a laff.


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17 February 2003   

 

Google as Big Brother

Check this out for detailed spy background from one of the most loved of sites:

"Google deserves your nomination for Big Brother of the Year

1. Google's immortal cookie:

2. Google records everything they can:

3. Google retains all data indefinitely:

4. Google won't say why they need this data:

5. Google hires spooks:

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:

7. Google's cache copy is illegal:

8. Google is not your friend:

9. Google is a privacy time bomb:"

Well, well... I'm dismayed. I too thought the sun shone out of their arse. [from Doc Searls]


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05 February 2003   

 

Guardian: The best blogs are written with conversation in mind, writes Steve Bowbrick

"I don't mean to say that there will soon be only one kind of weblog. There will be as many types of weblog, tones of voice, ways of speaking, as there are bloggers. Dogmatic, hysterical, narrow-minded weblogs will attract audiences, just like dogmatic, hysterical, narrow-minded newspapers. But they'll struggle to understand why the conversationalists are winning the big audiences and they might, in the end, have to learn a new way of talking."

Who's been reading the cluetrain.com? I recognise those hysterical dogmatic rageboy choruses.


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