Sometimes I’ll see a press release or a pitch that is so distasteful, so crass, that my jaw drops and I’m rendered speechless.
This is one of those times.
(Link from the Bad Pitch Blog)
Archive for October, 2008
The most distasteful thing I’ve read in a long time
Published by October 29th, 2008 in PR Disasters, PR Practice and Public Relations. 0 CommentsRecently iTunes censors in the UK went a little nuts with the asterisks, non-nonsensically inserting asterisks into the names of anyone unfortunate enough to be named “Dick,” or, for some reason, “Johnny,” as well as other, seemingly random words:
While iTunes has always asterisked potentially offensive entries in its database, recently the UK version of the […]
How will Twitter make money? They’ll figure it out… eventually
Published by October 9th, 2008 in Social Media, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsSlate has an interesting article about how (and if) Twitter will ever devise a strategy for making money. I’ve been asking myself this question for a long time, as it seems unlikely that any company will last without a way to pay for things like, oh, servers.
Twitter has been pretty stable lately, and the Fail […]
