Now this is outrageous. You click on a newsletter link and your e-mail address gets recorded along with the article link from the newsletter. Arabian Business does record your personal reading hits, and no not anonymously, you are exposed. Is that the Tracking part you talk about? Because that’s against all the privacy rules and ethical practices in marketing data generation.
Here’s my status-bar while mousing over a link listed in their newsletter
I was gonna get this blog into a silence period but this had to be blogged about, man this is so not right!
Imagine, if that’s what’s happening with the newsletter, then go figure what happens when you actually log-in and browse their website. So turnin’ off! Even though the data is not so important it does expose one’s anonymity while reading, it’s so unethical.
When Hotmail gets blocked in a country, there’s nothing to say more about censorship! Syria has been having Hotmail blocked for over 20 days now, and we were unhappy when we had Flickr blocked in UAE. Such an Irony right?
E-mail provider Hotmail has also been blocked since 17 July 2006, according to the National Organisation for Human Rights.
Okay, I’ll click on “Publish” when it’s seventh minute of the seventh hour of the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of this millennium.
Know I’ve been quiet for a bit, it’s a busy month for me out here in Abu Dhabi, between traveling and painting pretty pictures to doing accounts and client servicing, even though I don’t buy superstitious myths, but, well, it’s been kindda’ lucky for me this month.
Campaign was long gone, words on streets were “ITP will take over their license and operate”, some said it’ll somehow come back, and then Communicate’s website goes off for redesign and then fades away. So are we left with only press releases? No interactive discussions, comments, and proper coverage, no more fun.
I haven’t read Communicate for more than three months, I have no idea if it’s still out there or not, and Campaign, well, you all know. As much as one would love to read blogs, I can’t find really amusing Media related blog for the middle east to replace those fun reads on Comm and CampaignME.
It’s already scary, a formal traditional English Dinner, I’m invited to an in-house typical English dinner, and it’s a Steak night. So to releaf that, I was just checking an English table manners website and all, check this hint out: Never make a great display when removing hair, insects or other disagreeable things from your food. Place them quietly under the edge of your plate.
So if it happened that I saw a roach in my food I should take it and hide it under my plate?
Finally I could take it up and convert the long designed PSDs into a built website. So many changes, and for the first time ever, I use brown, I don’t know what I had against brown, but we’re so brown this time. And not to forget “I ain’t sellin’ wood!”
So what do you think? In Arabic, Farsi, English, or whatever language, let me know.
They say tools are nothing when you’re talented, check this one out, drawing Mona Lisa with full details and textures using only MS Paint. No Illustrator and No Freehand, just MS Paint. Watch it here.
dotone is being redesigned, for that I’ve been in the process of upgrading to the latest branch of Textpattern. While testing the new design on posts and comments, I came to this realization, most of the posts end up with no comments while on average at the time of posting more than 100 views still end up with no comment.
The beauty of blogging is not only in posting but reacting and sharing as well. It’s a real joy when a comment appears in the comments list that is not a spam nor a commercial message. Please comment, it’s really valuable to have your comments, it is a motivating incentive to every post I write.
Lack of comments really worried me of one fact, are my posts not the right one for you? Or are my posts not interesting enough? Tell me what you think. Meanwhile a new design is coming on the way with a color that I’ve never worked on before. So kindly let me know what you think.
Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, on the $300 device, making it the cheapest PC Cupertino has ever sold.
Cheaper than the MacMini that is. Hackers have added all the features they needed, even Web Servers, I’m trying to think over here, is this going to be good for the product or bad?
In a way I find it marketable, people want more with less, that should direct Apple to a cheaper MacMini? Maybe?
