Bing—It's Google, just five years late

God bless Microsoft! They know a good idea when they see one—especially if they didn't think of it. That's what makes Bing so fascinating. It's basically Google, just five years after the fact.

I absolutely love how boringly reactive and inconsequential they have become since Bill Gates got married and basically stopped giving a sh*t.


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Not Satisfied to Ruin Little Boys' in Life, Jackson Ruins Twitter in Death

After finally dropping dead. After ruining children's lives with his perversion. The Michael Jackson destruction train chugs on in death. In other words: Twitter traffic related to MJ death so high it brought down their servers and Facebook's too.

Doubt it's true, just trying to get in on the story probably but still that Jackson always F'ing something up. Burn baby burn.




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Crispin In It For Themselves As Usual: Burger King Be Damned

Well it's the same old story all over again for the boys at Crispin—win a ton of awards, do squat for your clients.

Today Advertising Age reported that while CP&B's partnership with Burger King has won them almost every award available including a Grand Effie last month, the agency has not been able to substantially move the needle for Burger King in terms of sales OR vis a vis their main competitor McDonald's.

But hey, why have a viable business when you can have a subservient chicken instead? Thieves.



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George W. Bush Declared Winner of Iranian Election

In a shocking turn of events, the Iranian Guardian Council, who today reviewed the results of the hotly contested Iranian Presidential elections, announced that after throwing out over 3 million questionable ballots, the winner of the vote, inexplicably was George W. Bush.

No stranger to rigged elections, Mr. Bush was notably pleased with the outcome of the inquiry even though he was not on the ballot and no one voted for him. In a brief statement Bush said, "The people have spoken...in Farsi. "




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The Cyber Fog of War: Brought to You By Twitter

The cyber world moves fast. In both good and bad directions. Just as protesters in Iran are using Twitter as their de facto news outlet, passing thousands of links daily to video of the ongoing unrest, it seems the Iranian government too has taken to Twitter to tell their side of the story.

Though unconfirmed by the Iranian government, a number of increasing obvious propagandist links and opinions are beginning to pop up on Twitter creating a cyber fog of war where the truth behind any post can no longer be trusted.

This is a critical crossroads in social media as now one must wonder whether any link can be trusted, and in a forum where the rule of social conduct was explicitly based on trust, Twitter as a news outlet becomes a kind of CraigsList, a place to delved into carefully for fear of sham, hustle and sometimes dangerous lie.

The alternatives for Twitter are few. Policing the site would spell its quick and certain death. Allowing the site to be co-opted by organs of corrupt regimes, tolls a similar death knell. It remains to be seem what the outcome will be, but surely social media, either way will have suffered a major blow.




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