Posts Tagged ‘internet’
International, US, Canadian that is the order in which I process information. Doing this when I read the newspaper is easy but when it comes to the internet it has become more of a challenge.
I have my IE browsers set for the US but an annoying pop up window keeps asking me if I want to go to the Canadian home page. I tell it ‘not to show me this again’ but every time they update it comes back. On Mozilla I finally get my Google search beaten into submission so it is set to Google.com not Google.ca. Then the same thing happens, an update and I’m back to square one. It is not that I have anything against local content but most of the time I need search results that cover a broad spectrum. In an attempt to be user friendly the companies that dominate this internet are also making the world less easy to access.
So what is happening to the World Wide Web? The use of www is now outdated, we no longer put it in our urls and everything related to it falls under the term Internet. Maintaining search engine optimization in today’s virtual world gets more & more complex and with that we often lose smaller but no less valuable sites.
Canada’s Privacy Commission has taken on FaceBook and more recently Google over privacy issues. Which is fine, intellectually I get it but the creeping in of government interference to ‘protect’ my interests can be a double edged sword. As they legislated Canadian simulcast commercials into the American stations (that I am paying for) will I one day turn on my computer to find that I only have access to a watered down version of certain sites that are seen as breaking Canada’s privacy laws.
The BBC is currently airing SUPERPOWER: Exploring the extraordinary power of the internet. A title that reminds us how we should neither take the Internet for granted nor try to harness its future potential.
With Your Biscotti & Coffee
1) Moms De Plume
Children’s books take on a new dimension with The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery
March 12th edition of the National Post
2) Sanitary pads…… made out of bananas?
While the title is a little humorous and wonderfully green, the motivation behind this product is a serious one. That thousands of women and girls around the world cannot go to school or work because they don’t have sanitary napkins.
Read the article & Watch the video Marie Claire Magazine
3) The Judy Project
Breaking down how the stereotyping of women in the work world is still prevalent
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Don’t get me wrong I think newsletters are a good thing, heck I put one out myself. Every so often though I clean house. See which ones I am actually reading and are still relevant to me either personally or professionally.
I am amused, well not really at how difficult some make it to cancel.
- I cancelled one was told to ‘click here to continue’ which took me back to the page where I could sign up for the newsletter that I just cancelled
- Some do the waiting game, where you click cancel and just sit there waiting and waiting, watching the turning hourglass. They probably hope that you just give up.
- There are the ones that don’t make it easy to find the cancel link. Oh, yes there it is a the very bottom of the page in teeny, tiny letters.
- Another favorite is the follow-up email asking you to confirm the confirmed cancellation
Well, you get the point. One newsletter owner even email me to ask why. I told them the truth as I assume that is what they wanted. Never heard back, maybe they didn’t like being told that they were ‘stale and generic’.
Think I will check on the copy for my next newsletter, to make sure that it is fresh and specific!