Not interested in a flamewar but happy to follow-up and clarify.
1. I'm not a journalist.
2. The fact that Media6 Degrees, a behavorial targeter is on their site is binary. Look at the source, it's there, pretty simple.
3. See #2 for the truth.
4. Depends on your world view. For people who don't want to be targeted by behavioral ad networks this is nefarious. For those who don't care it isn't.
5. I couldn't care less about "getting publicity" for my product. It's free and I don't need the publicity.
The reason is that Typepad, which hosts their blog, does this on all their hosted blogs.
You could have found this out by asking 37signals, or doing some basic research. Instead you chose to fling feces their way and get some attention for your product.
Not interested in a flamewar but happy to follow-up and clarify.
1. I'm not a journalist.
2. The fact that Media6 Degrees, a behavorial targeter is on their site is binary. Look at the source, it's there, pretty simple.
3. See #2 for the truth.
4. Depends on your world view. For people who don't want to be targeted by behavioral ad networks this is nefarious. For those who don't care it isn't.
5. I couldn't care less about "getting publicity" for my product. It's free and I don't need the publicity.