"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

(Jablair51 on twitter)

Unfortunately, where the Internet - and especially social media - is concerned, I think he's probably correct.

For anyone who's intersted in Microsoft's recent Polish 'gaffe' ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/26/microsoft_head_transplant/ )

The report of a similar 'shopping at http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-of-lublin-broken-token.html and the comments from Polish people is illuminating and adds much-needed context, whichever ( Read more... )