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business ethics

I taught high school physics in my first career – a long time ago! It is therefore unsurprising that the following image on a shopfront billboard totally caught my eye this morning, so I snapped a pic on my mobile phone. Hey, didn’t (Sir Isaac) Newton invent only 3 laws of motion? Of course he [...]

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I wasn’t actively researching this topic today, yet after randomly spotting snippets from 2 different sources I was reminded to re-examine my own behavior online. Specifically – is it (still) ethical?
It’s a timely topic for me too – I’ve just quietly celebrated my first 12 months online! How do I know? Because the domain name [...]

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Post image for Frank Kern Fail – Toys R Not Us!

Two posts ago I wrote about what at the time I thought was a stark contrast between two Internet marketing (IM) gurus. One once created his online fortune under the now discredited brand name character of The Rich Jerk. This person eventually realized the folly of unethical behavior with regards his customers (his product was [...]

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How to play god - uninstall Niagara Falls

Imagine having unlimited power. Over nature, over people, over anything. This quirky thought was inspired earlier today by getting the Firefox confirmation message opposite when I was uninstalling an addon theme for the browser. Hey, imagine owning the ultimate Playing God app. What a way to create total havoc — instantly take away one of the [...]

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Spelling, I’ve got that down. Typing, mmm, not so good there — if only I’d finished that college touch-typing class I once started; yep, back in the real typewriter days! Now you can see how I got a surprise web page (logo illustrated) instead of the real Facebook site a few minutes ago. So what can [...]

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