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Response To: Is Truth More Important in Web Advertising?
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Response To: Is Truth More Important in Web Advertising?
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Grim Milestone
Within an hour of the annoucement of the 2,000th military death in Iraq there were 286 news stories listed on Yahoo! News using the phrase "grim milestone." This reminds me of the "gravitas" fiasco during the 2004 election cycle. How many times do you think the phrase "grim milestone" will be used on network news in the next 24 hours?It doesn't matter what side you're on or whose ox you're trying to gore, the attempt to manufacture memes has been made painfully obvious by the internet. Spewing code phrases trivializes the actual event and likely has the opposite of the intended effect. It just doesn't work anymore.
Monday, October 24, 2005
Congressman Westmoreland Explains Broadcast Flag
A couple of weeks ago I sent e-mail regarding the Broadcast Flag to all three of my elected representatives in Washington. A staff member from the office of Senator Saxby Chambliss called me a couple of days later with an encouraging response. Today I received this response from Congressman Lynn Westmoreland. [More...]
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
Response To: Is Truth More Important in Web Advertising?
I want to note that Manish Vij from Anconia respondedto my earlier post vis a vis BlogJet and I have promised to take a further look at RocketPost and correct any errors. Updates as soon as I'm done.
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