<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Of course you can pay a few dollars a month for an ads free service.<br><br>There are also free services supported by other means of funding .. public libraries and such.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this news of any sort? Or unexpected? Or somehow evil?</div><div><br></div><div>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 18-Nov-2012, at 21:34, "michael gurstein" <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">More on Google (etc.) providing "free" services on the web…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">M<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com">Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com">mailto:Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arthur Cordell<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com">Ottawadissenters@yahoogroups.com</a>; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Ottawadissenters] Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="ygrp-msg"><div id="ygrp-text"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">NY Times Nov 17, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p>YOU can be sold in seconds. <o:p></o:p></p><p>No, wait: make that milliseconds. <o:p></o:p></p><p>The odds are that access to you — or at least the online you — is being bought and sold in less than the blink of an eye. On the Web, powerful algorithms are sizing you up, based on myriad data points: what you Google, the sites you visit, the ads you click. Then, in real time, the chance to show you an ad is auctioned to the highest bidder. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Not that you’d know it. These days in the hyperkinetic world of digital advertising, all of this happens automatically, and imperceptibly, to most consumers. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Ever wonder why that same ad for a car or a couch keeps popping up on your screen? Nearly always, the answer is real-time bidding, an electronic trading system that sells ad space on the Web pages people visit at the very moment they are visiting them. Think of these systems as a sort of Nasdaq stock market, only trading in audiences for online ads. Millions of bids flood in every second. And those bids — essentially what your eyeballs are worth to advertisers — could determine whether you see an ad for, say, a new Lexus or a used Ford, for sneakers or a popcorn maker. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">More………….. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/technology/your-online-attention-bought-in-an-instant-by-advertisers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121118&_r=1&">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/technology/your-online-attention-bought-in-an-instant-by-advertisers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121118&_r=1&</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bw9ngoq">http://tinyurl.com/bw9ngoq</a></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" 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