http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/ A blog about our thoughts on entrepreneurship, teamwork, our services, the Web and anything we find interesting. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:27:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/comment-page-1/#comment-18360 More Fear Mongering? Or Should We Really Be Afraid? Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:47:11 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/#comment-18360 [...] What is it about journalists that are always coming up with stories aimed at frightening the pants off of us small business owners. The latest threat courtesy of the Globe and Mail is targeted at all of you who are running your business from your home PC without any serious protection: In the cyber underworld’s never-ending quest for weak spots, home computers are coming under increased attack as businesses tighten their defences, according to the latest Symantec Internet security threat report. [...] [...] What is it about journalists that are always coming up with stories aimed at frightening the pants off of us small business owners. The latest threat courtesy of the Globe and Mail is targeted at all of you who are running your business from your home PC without any serious protection: In the cyber underworld’s never-ending quest for weak spots, home computers are coming under increased attack as businesses tighten their defences, according to the latest Symantec Internet security threat report. [...]

]]> http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/comment-page-1/#comment-10521 heath Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:02:10 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/#comment-10521 I think the title of your blog entry answers your own question… why the fear mongering? Fear = exciting news. And exciting news = more people using your site/paper. Hands down, fear is the #1 hype the media uses to raise ratings. Truth hardly ever has anything to do with ratings unfortunately. Is anyone surprised? Every time a new technology evolves to help people, there are people right behind it waiting to exploit it and take advantage of it. Nothing new or unusual here. Remember Y2K? Anything for a story…. I think the title of your blog entry answers your own question… why the fear mongering? Fear = exciting news. And exciting news = more people using your site/paper. Hands down, fear is the #1 hype the media uses to raise ratings. Truth hardly ever has anything to do with ratings unfortunately. Is anyone surprised? Every time a new technology evolves to help people, there are people right behind it waiting to exploit it and take advantage of it. Nothing new or unusual here. Remember Y2K? Anything for a story….

]]> http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/comment-page-1/#comment-10335 Daniel Tsang Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:38:47 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/14/why-the-fear-mongering/#comment-10335 My two cents is the article had a third objective. Take advantage of the blogosphere by engaging Bloggers. The end result … your post. This turns into more PR for the author and traffic to the newspaper. Mission accomplished. My two cents is the article had a third objective. Take advantage of the blogosphere by engaging Bloggers. The end result … your post. This turns into more PR for the author and traffic to the newspaper. Mission accomplished.

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