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NY Times To Data-Mine Its Visitors
pilsner.urquell points out a story in the Village Voice from a stockholders' meeting at the New York Times. It seems that the media giant is now eager to data-mine visitors to its Web properties. Of course anybody with a site who profits from advertising is likely to be doing something of the sort. It's just a bit surprising that the Times would use the words "data mining" out loud in public. From the article: "Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits... [T]he problem with reading papers electronically is that they can also read you."
I see only two such posts in the discussion so far and this one is older by three minutes. It is also the better of the two. I'm surprised there are only two...
No one ever uses the wow meme anymore. Let's give it a go:
"The NY Times will melt your face if you read their paper electronically...."
"Your face, that melt thing, yea, it'll happen at the Times....."
"0h n0z, sed t3h peeplz, our faces r t3h m3lt!..."
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