Pith & Vinegar: The Spinning of the Chum

• If you think diamonds are for never, visit boycottzales.com.
• Remember that friendly PR rep who said she would help intervene to resolve this kid’s Paypal misery? Well, he writes it’s been over a week and jack doody has been done.
• TiVo won’t kill ads, they’re too busy planning to kill TiVo, or at least manipulate it for their own fell purposes. [OneSecondTheater]
• Old news but we didn’t talk about it yet: Telcos secretly funding anti-net-neutrality websites. Probably made by the same ad agency who did the pro-C02 spot. [Digg]

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