When Facebook announced last week that Insights, their page-level analytics platform, had been reporting the wrong numbers for several months, most took it as a growing pain of a company growing into its own. It was a minor negative, something that caused a handful of “Facebook advertising has a long way to go” blog posts… Continue reading Facebook’s corrected insights may be a red herring for improved exposure for pages
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Everyone at CNET who has a spine should resign within a week
Censorship is arguably the most irreversible path a publication can travel. We are a semi-forgiving society that understands journalists will get the story wrong from time to time. We know that there are ethical boundaries that must occasionally be crossed. We are forgiving when a publication gets too controversial or stands behind the side of… Continue reading Everyone at CNET who has a spine should resign within a week
By covering it up, CBS and CNET shine bright spotlight on Hopper
Do you remember who won CNET‘s “Best of CES” award last year? Probably not. What you likely will remember is who should have but didn’t win it this year, thanks to a boneheaded PR move by CBS. The parent company of CNET is in heated litigation with Hopper, the Dish Network service that allows users… Continue reading By covering it up, CBS and CNET shine bright spotlight on Hopper