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Re: New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Rules are Now in Effect

thePav — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:02:45 -0000

I've read the guidelines, and there IS good reason to be a little scared. I agree 100% that there are a lot of crap sites promoting garbages products and scamming people out of their money - hopefully this will help alleviate that problem.

Unfortunately, should the FTC choose to enforce their new rules on EVERYONE's sites, this could be very bad.

People affected by this include:

-Anyone who sells ads on their blog or website

-social media marketers

-anyone who uses testimonials

-celebrities (not that you see many celebrity endorsements on the web, but the new rules make sure you never will)

-copywriters will be forced to sell features over benefits, as benefits won't be the same for everyone.

-advertisers will be required to perform research to provide PROOF of what consumers actually think after reading an ad - regardless of what the ad says.

-promoting your company or your client's products in forums without disclosure will be deemed deceptive and possibly warrant law enforcement action.

And the worst part of all of it?
Traditional media is exempt from all these regulations. Doesn't sound like common sense to me.

Re: Social Media R.O.I - The Definitive Social Media ROI Presentation

thePav — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:18:56 -0000

Olivier,

Brilliant presentation. One of the best I've seen. Well done, very informative.

Re: GIF, JPG and PNG File Formats: Pros and Cons

thePav — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:11:47 -0000

I think it would have been better if you'd used images to show the difference as well - also, transparent pngs don't show in ie6, unless you're using a hack or javascript.

Re: Google Won’t Buy NYT but May Offer Some Help

thePav — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:18:54 -0000

If google buys into the NYT or Washington Post, how long will it be before they start censoring other news outlets? They shouldn't do any of these deals

Re: Changing the way I use twitter…

thePav — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:10:56 -0000

Kevin,

I think you've nailed it. I've tried to make a deliberate effort to only follow people that share like interests, as I learned early on that it became too big a chore to filter out the noise. I use tweetdeck primarily, because of the ability to create groups and separate search windows that allow me to keep track of info and people that relate to what I do.

With all its faults, twitter still rules. I've gotten more useful information from it in the past few months than I was able to find on my own in the last year.

Re: Google Trends Attacked – Again!

thePav — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:28:22 -0000

Doesn't surprise me at all. Google does a great job policing everyone else but itself. Still, you'd have thought SOMEONE there would have caught this.

Pavlicko's last blog post..Evidence that Spamming Google Improves Ranking

Re: Redirect Case Study: Transferring Google PageRank

thePav — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:13:08 -0000

No surprise here - toolbar PR is not a reliable indicator at all. I see the same thing happen during complete site redesigns when old URLs are redirected to the friendlier urls within the same domain. The sites usually drop back for a while, then come back up fast. Still, very important to let your clients know what to expect before you make a major change like that.

Pavlicko's last blog post..More Proof the Internet Is Good For Business.

Re: My Site Dressed in Thesis

thePav — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:46:24 -0000

I like the new look, What did you say the wordpress theme was again? :)

Re: Twitter Presidential Debates: Sept 26

thePav — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:42:24 -0000

Smart thinking!

I am in 100% agreement with Maigari, although I don't know if that would prevent the masses from 'pretending' to be from one side or the other, just to skew the results - of course that could happen in any community type poll...

Just the same, I'm in!

Re: Alltop Launches Version Two

thePav — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:55:23 -0000

I like alltop as well, although it didn't find any monsters for me. Keep trying, Guy!

Re: The Palin vetting continues (Scripting News)

thePav — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:25:02 -0000

great post

Re: The Palin vetting continues (Scripting News)

thePav — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:21:09 -0000

Dave,

Who gives a crap about the "527" groups - the dems want to use them for moveon.org, or that dem front organization "the fund for America", but the republicans aren't allowed?

There's no doubt you're a bright guy, but you're wrong on this one. Along with the help from the "we know better than you" democrats, Obama will bury this country. I've read his whole plan and all I see is spend spend spend. Guess who'll be paying paying paying? us.

I'm not arguing the fact that republicans are blowing it left and right- I don't trust ANY of them anymore.

But this world is coming loose at the edges-Russia, Iran, China....all major powers that don't value freedom the way most Americans do. If Obama wins, and the dems retain power in Congress- things will change for sure. But not for the better.

Then who will you (and every other democrat) blame?

Re: High Gas Prices Are Driving Relationships To The Web

thePav — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:53:13 -0000

Not gonna happen. We'll have oil rigs ripping the hell out of the gulf before it gets to $ 6/gal. the US economy RUNS on oil, like it or not. At $12-15/gal groceries will cost 10 X more than they do today. I guarantee you companies won't be transporting goods cross country on BIKES. Until they invent the friggin teleporter or something like it - like cars that run on crap, we'd better get to digging before it's too late...