Posted in Companies on October 14, 2006 | No Comments »
I spent half an hour and went through dozens of screens on the Cingular Wireless site to find the anwer to one of the most easily-anticipatable questions a cellular phone user could have: How do I check my messages.
I don’t know if the way Cingular has arranged their website is due to incompetence or is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Companies, Corporate blogging, Marketing, Materials, Social media on May 7, 2006 | No Comments »
Some time back, Marshall and I went up to Seattle to visit Trumba, the online calendar company. We helped them set up their corporate blog and trained them in its use and upkeep. Now they’re at it like gangbusters. They’ve taken to blogging like fish to water. Ducks to water? Something watery to water. It’s [...]
Posted in Companies on December 24, 2005 | No Comments »
Two months ago I went into the Blockbuster store on Willamette Street and 18th in Eugene, Oregon. As I passed by the counters I tossed into a black plastic garbage can a paper I had been carrying. When the attendent saw me, she did not greet me. Instead, in a disgusted tone she proclaimed, “That’s [...]
Posted in Companies on November 25, 2005 | 4 Comments »
If you live in, or visit, Eugene, Oregon, and have an occasion to take a taxi, DO NOT take Budget Taxi.
We called to have a cab pick up my mother-in-law from the hospital where she had gone, having broken her arm. The driver who showed up was drunk. I mean Foster Brooks, ashen-faced, bum-beard, [...]
Posted in Companies on August 9, 2005 | No Comments »
Joining the ranks of Super Diaper Babies is Google.
CNET’s Elinor Mills, who also wrote about the CPB-associated MSN Spaces hack, used Google to find out information on that company’s CEO, which she published in an article. Google thereupon began to scream and beat the ground with its angry little fists. In a petulant and adolescent [...]
Posted in Companies, Free speech on July 25, 2005 | No Comments »
Via Romanesko, I found a report in the Pensacola News Journal detailing a regional Wal-Mart manager’s attempt to pressure the paper into firing one of its columnists, Mark O’Brien. In one of his columns O’Brien had discussed the hidden cost of Wal-Mart’s price savings, primarily in additional health care burden borne by the state, since [...]
Posted in Companies, Free speech, Human rights on June 18, 2005 | No Comments »
Microsoft is assisting the Chinese government in muzzling the Chinese people. It has configured its MSN Spaces blogging software and service to ban words such as “freedom” and “democracy.”
MS’s prominent blogger, Robert Scoble, sacrifices in one fell swoop, every last hint of his credibility with this cheap PR weasel-bark.
It is deftly swept aside not [...]
Posted in Companies, Social media on June 11, 2005 | No Comments »
Via BL Ochman, I was brought face-to-face with a sickening perversion of God’s natural law: the new Technorati beta site. What would compel a person to change a perferctly reasonable site to this monstrosity?
Good lord that’s ugly. It has that natural food store signage vibe that early web design had.
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