Found on CrunchGear, and originally on Boing Boing Gadgets is a great example of one or more people spamming the comments of everywhere they can find to promote a new phone by Motorola. One comment on Boing Boing demonstrates how much hard work this individual has been doing to shoehorn his stock comment into completely [...]
How NOT to do social media – The Motorola Mishap
November 26th, 2008 · Comments
Tags: social media marketing
Has Microsoft made a major marketing mistake?
November 21st, 2008 · Comments
I downloaded the new Xbox Live Experience and Dashboard for my Xbox 360 last night, and while the functionality is taking a little bit of time to adjust to, I’ve already decided I don’t like a major part of the strategy. And more importantly, it may be a big mistake for Microsoft.
Everyone in the world [...]
Tags: Digital Culture
Max Gogarty and The Guardian – From mistake, to farce, to learning
February 20th, 2008 · Comments
I was ready to lay into The Guardian again, as the whole Max Gogarty controversy seemed to be missing the basic point of blogging. Besides the issues of nepotism, and class, the controversy would have been much less if blogging had been explained and implemented properly, criticism had been pro-actively responded to, and it The [...]
Tags: Blogging · user generated content

