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What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. It’s their certainty that they’re right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I asked people what they considered to be the “correct” number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces. Some…
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bashford: Times Square to Art Square is a very complex project with a simple goal: to turn all advertising on Times Square into art. “We want to convince the world that advertising space should be about more than promoting goods and services, that those spaces could also be used for creative expressions. We will invest…
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Etsy reacts to user outrage, makes changes to feedback system
Etsy has decided to stop linking to purchased items in a user’s feedback in response to the chorus of privacy concerns coming from its user base. In a blog post published Tuesday, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin and COO Adam Freed said that the company’s recent rollout of the People Search tool, combined with public feedback,…
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One challenge is the “amplified effect” of social media, said Ian Schafer, chief executive at Deep Focus, a digital agency in New York, citing how, on Twitter, “you put something out and it can be retweeted thousands of times.” “It’s an age when anybody can communicate to an audience,” he added. “It didn’t used to…