Guerilla marketing turning … more organized, prevalent and nastier. What used to be singular events linked to certain products and unscrupulous advertisers is now a way of life and a business model in itself.
[Ted Murphy], who founded a Tampa-based interactive ad agency called MindComet, also runs a side business that pays bloggers to write nice [...]
I mean, the damn thing hasn’t started yet and the news is already soiled with this utter nonsense.
Like if Wayne Rooney is “300% certain” he will make the World Cup finals. Those sort of deep and profound investigatory pieces of journalism.
Not only is it obfuscating real issues in the real world (isn’t sport always?) [...]
Old news but nevertheless interesting. The most obvious snag being of course that it’s hard to pick out just 10 corporations. Good luck finding 10 corporations that didn’t misbehave last year, now that would be a real challenge.
The list:
BP - Delphi - Dupont - ExxonMobil - Ford - Halliburton - KPMG - Roche - Suez [...]
To paraphrase the infamous quote. Agonist notes that Coca-Cola once more stands accused of ravaging developing countries for resources.
Coca-Cola has been heavily criticised for causing extreme water shortages in developing countries where supplies are scarce.
New evidence from campaign group War on Want appears to show that Coca-Cola has had a serious impact in communities in [...]
Boing Boing notes the Blank Noise Project. The campaign aims to raise awareness about sexual harassment, so called “eve teasing”, and women’s status in India in general.
The phenomenon, to which I must admit I was hitherto oblivious, I must assume, is a productive research topic in behavioral science. Definitely something to examine closer if one [...]
Just to sum it up. The US wants to track you using an embedded GPS receiver which sends its position and route to a DMV registry at steady intervals. No privacy whatsoever guaranteed. Malfunction may render your car useless.
Sweden wants all new cars to be fitted with alcolocks (”breathalyzers”). The technology is unreliable. Malfunction may [...]
Sabbah’s Blog points to a VERY telling example of how deeply rooted some habits are and how slow people are to connect one thing with another. Like … don’t bring your assault rifle to a beauty pageant promoting peace.
Via David Galbraith. Center for Reproductive Rights. Brought on of course by changing winds on the US political scene.
Currently, more than 61% of the world’s people live in countries where induced abortion is permitted either for a wide range of reasons or without restriction as to reason. In contrast, 26% of all people reside in [...]
The verdict is in. The Sniper in question was convicted of manslaughter. Even though many would argue that this is not proof enough the system works. For one, Hurndall (article archive) was a British citizen, second, the sniper was a Bedouin Arab, thus more expendable.
It is the first time Israel has pursued a case with [...]
Via David Galbraith …
Only dead scientists are known to teens
Teenagers are so out of touch with modern science that they cannot name a single living scientist.
Students, aged 13-16, were asked to name a famous scientist in an online survey carried out by exam board OCR. Isaac Newton (39%) and Albert Einstein (29%) topped the [...]
Contact
Lifestream
