by Laura Creekmore | Sep 29, 2009 | Privacy
In a recent post, I was considering online privacy and data gathering. Today, a study came out on those topics — and the results aren’t good for advertisers or laissez-faire thinkers. But they may enable us to begin re-thinking the promise of the internet....
by Laura Creekmore | Sep 22, 2009 | User experience
So I’m looking up some Creative Commons images on Flickr for a presentation I’m finalizing. And I just noticed a crazy-smart detail in the Flickr search. I’m clicking from page to page in the search results, using the numbered buttons shown here. I...
by Laura Creekmore | Sep 18, 2009 | Blogging
Over the years in this business, I’ve found that the general public rarely thinks about ghostwriting — when someone [often a busy executive or celebrity] hires someone else to write in his or her name. Most people assume that when your name is attached to...
by Laura Creekmore | Sep 18, 2009 | Information management, Social media, Strategy
I’ve worked with content management systems since the late 1990s. And I can tell you there’s not been a perfect one invented. But some are much, much better than others. I’m a technology geek [n., person who enjoys new stuff], but sometimes I get...
by Laura Creekmore | Sep 15, 2009 | Privacy
As long as I’ve been in digital media, there have been few political issues that have really riled up the industry. There’s a long-standing discussion about the right path for digital rights management to take — the copyright protection particularly...