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Can't think of much today. Certainly nothing as engaging as my sleeping habits. ;) Ah well...I'll poke around a bit and see if anything falls out of my brain.

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I have to find my box of unused Holiday cards. I'm pretty sure I know where they are...as long as they didn't grow legs and wander off in the past year.

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I've been thinking about the music industry lately...they don't count independent record labels/distributors, do they? So, CdBaby (who rock, btw. I have had nothing but fabulous experiences with them) could sell three billion cds a year, and it wouldn't affect the numbers. There are a lot of music sales going on out there that are ignored...how, exactly, can they say people aren't buying music when they aren't counting all of it?

Pah. Pah, I say.

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Oh good. Facebook has been forced to make a major about-face on its controversial new Beacon ad program after more than 50,000 users signed a petition objecting to the initiative. Beacon sends messages to users' friends about their purchases on sites like Travelocity, Blockbuster, eBay and Fandango. According to The New York Times, the petition's signers want to be able to opt out of the program completely with one click.

After the uproar, the company announced late Thursday that it was amending its policy and would no longer send messages about users' activities without getting explicit approval each time

Of course, the fact that they had to be forced into it doesn't speak well of the company at all.

(no subject)

Can't think of much today. Certainly nothing as engaging as my sleeping habits. ;) Ah well...I'll poke around a bit and see if anything falls out of my brain.

~~~

I have to find my box of unused Holiday cards. I'm pretty sure I know where they are...as long as they didn't grow legs and wander off in the past year.

~~~

I've been thinking about the music industry lately...they don't count independent record labels/distributors, do they? So, CdBaby (who rock, btw. I have had nothing but fabulous experiences with them) could sell three billion cds a year, and it wouldn't affect the numbers. There are a lot of music sales going on out there that are ignored...how, exactly, can they say people aren't buying music when they aren't counting all of it?

Pah. Pah, I say.

~~~

Oh good. Facebook has been forced to make a major about-face on its controversial new Beacon ad program after more than 50,000 users signed a petition objecting to the initiative. Beacon sends messages to users' friends about their purchases on sites like Travelocity, Blockbuster, eBay and Fandango. According to The New York Times, the petition's signers want to be able to opt out of the program completely with one click.

After the uproar, the company announced late Thursday that it was amending its policy and would no longer send messages about users' activities without getting explicit approval each time

Of course, the fact that they had to be forced into it doesn't speak well of the company at all.