Yes, we listed your unlisted number, but it's not as if we listed your unlisted number, we hired someone to list your unlisted number, so we didn't list your unlisted number. Ah, the joys of “OPT OUT”
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=7439
JM: Privacy breached: Flow clients rail against directory listings
January 31, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Breaches, Businesses
Mark Titus reports:
Subscribers to Flow’s telephone service are demanding explanations at the sudden appearance of their private information in the national telephone directory, produced annually by a third party.
But they will have to wait at least a year before the problem can be rectified.
The telephone directory, though distributed by LIME Jamaica/Cable and Wireless Jamaica, captures the fixed-line telephone numbers, internet and street addresses of subscribers.
LIME is the official owner and publisher of the directory but its production is outsourced to Caribbean Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Global Directories Caribbean Limited.
[...]
But Columbus Communications Jamaica, which trades under the name Flow, is adamant that it did not breach any policy or agreement with its customers in passing on clients’ information for publication in the directory.
Flow’s marketing director Sharon Roper said that on signing up, Flow customers are given the option to ‘delist’ and for clients who chose not to, their information was already in the public domain via the firm’s website.
Read more in The Gleaner.
[From the article:
Several of the complaints to Sunday Business, mostly persons who signed up for service via telephone, dispute having been offered the option to 'delist', and said they were also not told that Flow publishes their personal information on its own website.
If you don't play by our rules, you can take your ball and go home.
Amazon Pulls Book Publisher's Listings; Ebook Wars Underway?
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 30, @10:10AM from the grab-some-popcorn dept.
As of last night, Amazon stopped listing all books from Macmillan Publishers, referring searches to other sellers instead. According to the New York Times, this is because Macmillan is one of the companies that now has an agreement to sell ebooks through Apple's new iBooks store, and asked Amazon to raise the price of their ebooks from $9.99 to $15. An industry source told the Times that the de-listing is Amazon's way of "expressing its strong disagreement" with the idea of a price hike. Gizmodo suggests this is the first volley in an Apple-Amazon ebook war. Quoting: "It feels like a repeat of the same s*** Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled with iTunes, trying to counter the leverage Apple had because of iTunes' insane marketshare. Same situation here, really: Content provider wants more money/control over their content, fights with the overwhelmingly dominant, embedded service that's selling the content. Last time, everybody compromised and walked away mostly happy: Universal and NBC got more flexible pricing, iTunes got DRM-free music and more TV shows for its catalog to sell. ... The difference in this fight is that Macmillan is one of the publishers signed to deliver books for Apple's iBooks store. They have somewhere to run. And credibly. That wasn't really the case with record labels, who tried to fuel alternatives to dilute iTunes power, and failed."
I know I have a spreadsheet that does multivariate ANOVA, but I can't find it.
Quickly Search Documents For Words with DocFetcher
By Varun Kashyap on Jan. 30th, 2010
… It is very common to forget the file name of the document you require but you almost always have a good idea about the contents.
Docfetcher is one such software that lets you peek and search documents for words to find exactly what you are looking for.
… You can get DocFetcher here. It works with Windows and Linux. For Windows users, there is a choice between installer and portable versions of the software.
I often have multiple spreadsheets open (student test, answers, gradebook) This looks handy
http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/08/officetab-brings-tabs-to-word-excel-and.html
OfficeTab brings tabs to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by Kaushik
… OfficeTab enables you to open multiple documents within one office window without cramming up your taskbar. With OfficeTab you can choose which Office applications you want tabs on - Word or Excel or PowerPoint or all of them.
For those of us who use an RSS reader...
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/create-rss-feed-for-any-website.html
Create an RSS Feed for Any Website
Earlier this week Google announced an enhancement to Google Reader that allows you to subscribe to updates to any website regardless of whether or not that site offers an RSS feed. I finally got a chance to give it a try this afternoon and found it very easy to add a subscription to some of my favorite sites that don't offer RSS feeds. I did this in three quick steps that I've outlined below.
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