Category: Technology Author : Steven Hodson Posted: June 8, 2009
Tags : advertising, Madison Ave, social media, web 2.0
I ran across this in one of my feeds just now and it is tying in nicely with another post I am working on for later but I couldn’t resist the urge to share this with you right now. Set to the music of Don McLean’s “The Day That the Music Died” it is a great take on why advertising as we know it is nothing but a big FAIL.
Enjoy
A big hat tip to Eric Friedman at Marketing.FM
Jun 18, 2009
Uh – isn't it a violation of pretty much any “Term of Service” agreement to share your password to social networking sites? Where does the city get the authority to compel other people to violate binding agreements?
Jun 18, 2009
Re the story about Bozeman requiring job applicants to provide all social media logins and passwords –
JB has a valid point regarding TOS violations from Bozeman's policy, but even if sites' Terms of Service agreements DIDN'T prohibit password sharing, you have to wonder who is going to get a hold of that password.
To put the shoe on the other foot, let's say that Bozeman City Attorney Greg Sullivan applied for an AOL account, and AOL required him to disclose his city login and password information to AOL. Sullivan, being an attorney, would presumably want to know who would have access to this information, under what circumstances they would have this access, how they would use this information, and how many millions of dollars Sullivan would get if a rogue AOL employee sent spurious emails from Sullivan's account.
Jun 18, 2009
They may as well ask to listen in on all of my private phone calls as well. Or better yet, put a bug on my lapel so they can listen to all of my private conversations.
Jun 18, 2009
#cityofboz Inquisitr Follow-up: By 12:34 pm Pacific time (or less than a half hour after I wrote this comment), I was being followed by Bozeman TV station/Twitter user http://twitter.com/KBZK – they seem to be tracking this story and mentions of it.