Good News becomes the absence of Bad News

Sometimes the news is so continually bad that GOOD NEWS is when something bad DOESN'T happen:

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Better not abandon that SHOPPING CART

So, you click on something you want to order. Only 99¢, you get to the checkout and 78.89 for SHIPPING . No thanks. But what if the website ALREADY has your bank account number and the "routing" number for your checks? THEY can write themselves in from here to Silicone Valley.

"Digital Cash?" aka Dwolla? You have been warned!

Hmmm, how could this work?

PC World wrote the following about a scam where malware gets into your computer, then demands a "fine" for viewing child pornography on the internet. Seems to me it would only work if a large number of people actually VIEW child porn on the internet. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? ... Nah! Not at all.

Facebook Falls on Its Face

Could it be that people remember MySpace? Or could it be the lack of privacy? How 'bout increased censorship? Do I say... Google Plus here we come?

What else is down this year?

Website magazine reports that the world spam rate hit a 3-year low. I guess other folks are like me and only read their facebook mail. Everything else goes in the trash! Spam killed email and now it's killing itself!

Not quite the 99%

So website magazine runs an ad for a web service that will tell you WHO visited your website. Of course we want every site we visit to know our names, addresses, sexual orientation and political leanings, don't we?

Ebay offers more...

Here's a new "tool" offered to sellers. Remember, that's the company started by former California candidate for governor.

That's write, now you can LIE... automatically!