I wish you were wrong. Silos are everywhere -- ugly and unavoidable bottlenecks. Nobody has a plan to fix that culture though because it works only just good enough.
I personally don't see anything "wrong" with silos - they are the partitions of the distributed systems of human society and are going to emerge anyway partially due to Dunbar's number in a "flat" organization. The issue I see is that managers are unwilling or very slow to understand new lines of division of labor ("What do you mean that sysadmins should also be developers? Why would we want that?" - direct quote from a customer) because it doesn't correspond to what their information systems management textbooks from 2002 told them how IT labor is divided. Then comes issues of training managers and telling people why this re-org is so much better than the last 10. This is why the "devops" movement in enterprise is cheap business consulting labor to me - it results in a re-org in most places, and that's the equivalent of developers showing up at a new shop and suggesting refactors as a newbie.
Furthermore, most IT managers have such poor data from the organizations they run that the only things they can track are money spent, not money saved and such. And showing that a CIO doesn't know wtf his company gets you kicked out of meetings permanently in most (typically dysfunctional) organizational cultures.
When he is present and it worked, they suspected he may have caused the experiment to be less successful or to have failed in a way that was not immediately observable.
Vulnerabilities are patched frequently enough. If there is a kind of behavior you want to prevent, write a plugin for it. Noscript and Greasemonkey are pretty handy for most things.
The worst things a browser can do come from javascript, so having a whitelist is useful. Remove anyone from your whitelist that is engaging in behavior you disapprove of.
I don't let facebook run scripts on my machines because I disagree with their philosophy of selling user data to the highest bidder, and tracking everything users do. That's too intrusive so I simply disallow them access.
No site that calls in too many javascript packages is given any privs on my computer.
You are missing a robust feature description page right on the front. I suggest putting something under "Why 80legs?" that says FEATURE LIST. For example, if I wanted to find any of the companies in a particular state, and get a comprehensive report -- your service could do that, yes?
>By not giving up 100% of its online advertising revenue, this paper is actually well ahead of its peers.
Most colleges see very little in terms of revenue from advertising. They charge enough to cover expenses and wouldn't dream of changing their pricing to become profitable.
