Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Okay, this is about as trashy as we’ll ever get. But when you cover the juicy stuff, well, you gotta cover the juicy stuff:
“Instead of working solely in Wal-Mart’s interest,” the company said, Ms. Roehm “frequently put her own first. She did not merely fail to avoid conflicts of interest, she invited them.”
Wal-Mart backed [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
The Airbus A380 taxis after landing at JFK International Airport in New York March 19, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
For all of Airbus’ woes, today is the day they seemed to all melt away – if for only that moment when the 550+ passenger plane touched down on U.S. soil for the first time.
The company has been [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Forget the headlines of lost productivity and conspiracy theories about bandwidth shrinkage as a result of March Madness. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
CBS has stepped up to the foul line just in time with a handy widget that you add to your own blog.
Via Widgify.
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
We knew it was only a matter of time before the lawyers over at Viacom started to lay out some serious smack:
Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, sued Google and YouTube in federal court today, citing “massive intentional copyright infringement.”
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Viacom, which has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
We want to know who over at PRWeb thought that it would be a good idea for us to see this innocent girl after completing a short survey.
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Need some copy and wonder where you can score some dummy text?
Head on over to www.loremipsum.de and you can get as much as you need.
It’s a free service for copywriters, graphic designers, and more.
Interested in its history? Read on:
After telling everyone that Lorem ipsum, the nonsensical text that comes with PageMaker, only looks like [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
We know that you’re busy and sometimes RSS doesn’t fit into most peoples’ lifestyles.
Therefore, we’ve added a new feature to PRpulp that enables you to get a daily digest sent to your inbox on days that when we add new posts.
Just head on over to the home page at www.prpulp.com and enter your e-mail address [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
When consumers know that a certain graphic treatment represents something, don’t reinvent the wheel.
That’s what we think Coke is up to in its new packaging for Coke Plus, a vitamin enriched soda.
Check it out:
Here’s Centrum:
Via NYT.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
There’s more than one way we could call out Disney and it’s über-controlling qualities.
When it comes to PR though, they might want to consider either preparing spokespeople a bit better or loosening the Mickey hat a notch so that spokespeople don’t fear PR wrath should they slip-up during an interview.
Some reporters choose to start an [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Head on over to USAtoday.com to get a completely redesigned home page fraught with the latest social elements that (might) make reading the newspaper online just a little bit more interactive.
We’re not going to tell you what they did, you can check it out on your own.
We liked the welcome note that explained the new [...]
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