Archive for the ‘Companies’ Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Chiropractors are notoriously one of the most controversial members of the medical world, and recently UK chrios have been second guessing their participation in the field.
Last year, Dr. Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for publishing his doubts on what some chiropractors were claiming their care ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Bullies haven’t been cool since Biff Tannen graced our presence, and even he wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box. North Face has proven they’re not quite the cool guys in school like many may have believed them to be. When 18-year-old Jimmy Winkelmann created a parody brand, “South Butt,” North Face ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
You've seen his ads on TV -- "The Video Professor". He'll teach you eBay or PowerPoint or some such program, with a free trial. As it turns out the trial is pretty sneaky.
When you sign up, you pay about $5 for shipping and that's it. However, buried deep in the ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
I'll open with the line TechCrunch opened with, because it summarizes this situation perfectly:
The lawyers never seem to get the fact that some things just aren’t that interesting until they try to force people not to talk about them. And that’s certainly the case with London headquartered Barclays bank, which ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
16-year-old Kimberley Swann had recently been hired by Ivell Marketing & Logistics to do some office administration work -- shred paper, scan documents, etc. She updated her Facebook status a number of times to reflect how boring the work was. Some of the updates included:
first day at work. omg!! So ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
A very classic case (via techdirt). Nemesysco developed a lie detector that apparently has some problems, which were documented by a report in a technology journal by some Swedish researchers. Rather than debunk their claims, Nemesysco decided to try to silence them with legal action. Oops.
According to the researchers:
It was ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
It's shocking how many big companies still don't have a clue about the Streisand Effect. The latest comes from De Beers.
A couple of weeks ago, a spoofed version of the New York Times was handed out in New York. They printed thousands of copies, headlined with "IRAQ WAR ENDS" and ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
This is more "idiotic companies" than "Streisand effect", but it's still worth mentioning.
Canon has a new 5D MKII camera that apparently is quite awesome. Robert Scoble was slobbering all over the awesomeness of it, and the CEO of SmugMug wrote a long blog post to show off the amazing video ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The Mormons aren't pleased about some old documents on Wikileaks, so they're suing them to get the documents taken down. Not only that, but they're also threatening WikiMedia (because they linked to Wikileaks) and Scribd (because they briefly hosted a copy of the document).
It's yet another case where it's having ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
To mark the April 15 tax deadline, the parody newspaper My Wall Street Journal was on news stands this week, featuring a topless sketch of Ann Coulter.
According to the owner of a local news stand, a man wearing a shirt with a WSJ logo purchased every copy of the parody ...
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