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Are We Just Skipping December, Then?

December 2, 2008

Today, on December 1st, Yahoo published the following year-in-review posts:

What’s up with doing this on December 1st? The year is only 11/12ths over. This is like doing the post-game report after the 3rd quarter of a football game, or the 8th inning of a baseball game.

And it’s not just Yahoo; Google’s gonna post their list soon, and Ask.com already did. Are they just gonna ignore December altogether, pretend it doesn’t exist?

Strange, I say.

Miscellany

The Internet ain’t so scary!

August 6, 2004

Here’s a nice change of pace…. Despite what you see and read about online scams, the FTC says the Internet is not the biggest source of fraud. What is? Print advertising! According to the FTC survey, 33% of scams came from ads in newspapers, magazines, direct mail, etc. The next biggest source is telemarketing at 17%, and the Internet is third at 14%. Rounding out the list of fraud and scam sources is TV and radio advertising at 11%. So the Internet isn’t that big, scary place a lot of people make it out to be.

FTC Consumer Fraud Survey

Matt McGee

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Are We Just Skipping December, Then?

The Internet ain’t so scary!