3m
There is probably nothing more pathetic in the world of marketing than watching a big corporation try to do something "viral"—usually they end up looking like
Elaine dancing. But sometimes, they're so cynical and soulless about it that they don't just come across as incompetent, but as exploitative cheapskates as well. In 3M's case, they wouldn't pay $2,000 to license a well-known photo with its own viral history, and instead recreated a fake version of it to save a grand. We guess they're just hoping none of the sites and communities that made the photo popular in the first place will notice. Oh wait, this is supposed to be viral or something...
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breaking
1:30, Diggs started to take longer to register . The digg box on one post started showing 11 diggs, when the post really had 56.
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breaking
A wide-scale user revolt is disrupting popular social news networking
Digg. It's a protest over Digg acquiescing to
MPAA pressure and deleting a 15,000+ dugg story about a crack for the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray DRM system.
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sutori
Always give a sucker an even break. In addition, always give a new consumerist oriented web site a plug!
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digg
We love Netscape. They're just so cute! Ever since they responded to our
AOL Wants to Sell "Internet" to the Dead by claiming "there is no corroborating evidence... something smacks of the urban legend or mythology in this piece" we've just adored them. It takes
balls to be that painfully bought out.
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retail
• Isn't the real solution just to stop making more children?
[NYT] "Congress Identifies Pornography Purchasers"
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top
• Hope they boned up on their nighttime maneuvers. [
WOAI]
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remainders
Although we don't intend to make this a regular feature just yet, we spotted a rash of Consumerist
y links over at
Digg that we thought we'd pass on.
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Consumerist
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