Comments on: Welcome to the latest incarnation of sweatshop labor http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/ Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dossy http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Dossy Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:11:09 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000386.html#comment-609 Wayan: I'm probably not the right person to speak to these issues since I only have cursory outsider knowledge of the situation. I might dig a little deeper and do some more thinking and write more about the subject, if I get so inspired. :-) Wayan: I’m probably not the right person to speak to these issues since I only have cursory outsider knowledge of the situation. I might dig a little deeper and do some more thinking and write more about the subject, if I get so inspired. :-)

]]> By: wayan http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-608 wayan Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:28:58 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000386.html#comment-608 Hmm... you bring up an interesting point. Since Google is already involved - the OLPC browser starts at the Google homepage - do you think they are thinking along these lines? Better yet, could you think out a longer post on this topic for <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">OLPC News</a>? Hmm… you bring up an interesting point. Since Google is already involved – the OLPC browser starts at the Google homepage – do you think they are thinking along these lines? Better yet, could you think out a longer post on this topic for OLPC News?

]]> By: Dossy http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Dossy Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:22:28 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000386.html#comment-607 Mike: While I think I understand what you're saying (those sub-$100 laptop user's eyeballs aren't worth much without disposable income behind them), I do think that Internet-based advertising will continue to evolve to exploit the audience. Just as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September">September that never ended</a> brought the Internet a mass of new, clueless users, and naivete exploiteurs found ways of making money off them (i.e., "get rich quick" scams, Ponzi schemes, network MLM, etc.) ... I am sure they'll find a way to exploit this next batch. Even now we have the "work from home, install our (zombie botnet) software and be your own boss!" scams. Just imagine the kind of inventive schemes that can be perpetrated against people to whom USD$1 a day is a huge sum of money. Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but maybe I'm not. Mike: While I think I understand what you’re saying (those sub-$100 laptop user’s eyeballs aren’t worth much without disposable income behind them), I do think that Internet-based advertising will continue to evolve to exploit the audience.

Just as the September that never ended brought the Internet a mass of new, clueless users, and naivete exploiteurs found ways of making money off them (i.e., “get rich quick” scams, Ponzi schemes, network MLM, etc.) … I am sure they’ll find a way to exploit this next batch.

Even now we have the “work from home, install our (zombie botnet) software and be your own boss!” scams. Just imagine the kind of inventive schemes that can be perpetrated against people to whom USD$1 a day is a huge sum of money.

Perhaps I’m being overly cynical, but maybe I’m not.

]]> By: Mike Duffy http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-606 Mike Duffy Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:28:46 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000386.html#comment-606 Well, the people buying those CPM and CPC ads won't want to spend money showing ads to people who can't buy anything (how many $100 laptop owners have significant disposable income?). In other words, I don't think that $100 over three years is a likely expected value. I could be wrong. Well, the people buying those CPM and CPC ads won’t want to spend money showing ads to people who can’t buy anything (how many $100 laptop owners have significant disposable income?). In other words, I don’t think that $100 over three years is a likely expected value. I could be wrong.

]]> By: Jacob http://dossy.org/2006/12/welcome-to-the-latest-incarnation-of-sweatshop-labor/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Jacob Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:08:58 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000386.html#comment-605 Dossy, you're just going to force Google to invent some sort of filtering system with a catchy name like SweatSafe(tm). Dossy, you’re just going to force Google to invent some sort of filtering system with a catchy name like SweatSafe(tm).

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