The ability to collaborate and coordinate large scales.

I don’t care what industry you are in. Tapping into large markets and having connections in many different industries over a vast geographic expanse can only be an asset.

Social media is a must for everyone who wants to succeed in tomorrow’s business world, and those that get a head start are gaining a valuable competitive advantage.

John.

Intellectual property online is a huge issue. The fact that the site is probably using an off-shore server makes this a little more complicated.

There are ways to issue orders for content to be removed. But from my experience, this just results in the same material popping up somewhere else in a very short period of time.

A better strategy is to avoid trying to control the Internet as a whole and focus on promoting your content.

How many readers do you really think they will get?

Optimize your site instead, and promote your url. Look at them as a service that is providing a free mirror for you and showcasing your material on your behalf.

What do I do about a Romanian site that copies my blog wholesale and adds my original address in small print? They even use the same name but with a blogspot instead of a wordpress address.

@badgergravling thinks I should stop them. I am not sure how or even why?

Makes no difference what party this is, the practise regardless of politics is deplorable.

Yet another shining example of the accelerated dangers of Ideological Amplification on the Internet. What next, the same methods for a suicide cult, to sweep the territories, in the name of free speech?

Is it the giving of points that crosses the line?

“Using “buzz marketing” specialists to communicate with potential consumers in social situations without disclosing that they are acting as brand ambassadors.”

It is exactly this type of activity that is outlawed in UK now, and bloody good job too.

This type of ideological amplification is much more than dangerous, it is shocking to see it taking place in an American Presidential campaign.

This form of stealth marketing is both insidious and treacherous.

My undergraduate class, which I hadn’t put onto blogging because it is too big for Wordpress, spontaneously suggested opening a Facebook channel. We’ll see! I might start a wiki for them.