Things I Learned This Thanksgiving
* Our family has pretty much always carved the turkey as if we were butchers (NYT video, via Metafilter).
* ICBM silo launch crews ("Turn your key, sir!") have had Internet connections since August. (One hopes they don't confuse the "really nuking people" computers with the "hackable/playing DEFCON" computers.)
* Lest we forget: Viral video marketing people are really evil. ("Shilling, friend-spamming, sockpuppets: We guarantee 100K views on YouTube or your campaign is free!")
This is not to be confused with record company viral video marketing people, who are also really evil, only in a different way.
* That Haier-built MP3 player that AOL announced at CES earlier this year? (You know, the industrial steel-looking one that looked kind of ugly in the few press photos, the one we all scratched our heads and asked "Why are we doing an MP3 player?" -- AOL never really did hardware very well.) Silicon Alley Insider looked at it, and made it sound like it... doesn't suck. (Former CTO John McKinley also popped up in the comments.)
* ICBM silo launch crews ("Turn your key, sir!") have had Internet connections since August. (One hopes they don't confuse the "really nuking people" computers with the "hackable/playing DEFCON" computers.)
* Lest we forget: Viral video marketing people are really evil. ("Shilling, friend-spamming, sockpuppets: We guarantee 100K views on YouTube or your campaign is free!")
This is not to be confused with record company viral video marketing people, who are also really evil, only in a different way.
* That Haier-built MP3 player that AOL announced at CES earlier this year? (You know, the industrial steel-looking one that looked kind of ugly in the few press photos, the one we all scratched our heads and asked "Why are we doing an MP3 player?" -- AOL never really did hardware very well.) Silicon Alley Insider looked at it, and made it sound like it... doesn't suck. (Former CTO John McKinley also popped up in the comments.)
Labels: family, gadgets, viral marketing
posted by Joelogon at
11/22/2007
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2 Comments:
That's awful about Marie Digby! Love the turkey vid. I put it up on my blog. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Beth, At
11/23/2007 1:00 PM
While I hadn't heard about Marie Digby before the WSJ article, I have to admire the marketing evil behind that particular campaign (which also capitalized on the fact that she's a hot chick, though that goes for most marketing).
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Joelogon, At
11/24/2007 12:06 AM
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