Daily Archives: Monday, October 30, 2006

Sponsored spew from Google

The Diet Coke/Mentos guys have a new video, this time with 500 liters of Diet Coke and 1,500+ Mentos and what looks like, from the credits, some corporate underwriting/sponsorship/assistance from both of those brands and an exclusive deal from Google … Continue reading

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Welcome back, newsreaders

Because of some technical difficulties that were particularly perplexing to this blog’s hackery team, our RSS feed has not been picked up by FeedBurner for the past week. I think that problem has been solved. The problem probably was caused … Continue reading

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The relative pain of pinpricks in the history of Time Inc.

I especially enjoy reading about how giant media companies like Time Inc. are trying to figure out what their digital future is in publications (like the Wall Street Journal today) owned by other giant media companies that could write the … Continue reading

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One more time, slowly — why pay-per-post schemes are cancer

Let’s say the people who dreamed up spam set up a .ORG website that sounded very legitimate, something like Ethical Email Marketing Policy Organization, would I trust them to be the arbitrators of what legitimate spam practices are? In much … Continue reading

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Microsoft tries another way to compete with Intuit

Over the years, Microsoft has tried many things (including an acquisition attempt that the Justice Department derailed) to compete with Intuit in the small business accounting market. Today, they have announced their next plan, a version of the popular Web … Continue reading

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FeedBurner is making a ‘clunking’ sound

My RSS feed from FeedBurner is “clunky,” they say. For some reason, I get a “connect time out” message whenever I try to update the Rexblog RSS feed they host. (Hey, I’m just a user — so I’m sure it’s … Continue reading

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Mocking ethics

I agree with Mike Arrington that the absurd sideshow of disclosure options being offered by the pay-per-post schemers is a mockery of ethics, does not address the issue and further exhibits their lack of understanding of how what they are … Continue reading

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