[1] coz I always remember jonah peretti's stunt re: nike and, later, blackpeopleloveus.com and another hilarious one involving a service that would break up with your partner for you. although supposedly just having fun or an "accident" it turned out that they were all stunts conducted as part of his research at MIT media labs, designed to understand how companies can use the Internet to get the word out about products -- guerilla marketing, social networking, etc.
At 04:07 PM 3/10/2008, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>At 11:57 AM 3/10/2008, Dwayne wrote:
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> >But, because people are willing to believe the very worst about the
> >darker skinned peoples and the places they inhabit, his stories had
> >the designed effect - creating a sensual thrill of horror in his fair
> >skinned, ample bosomed listeners.
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>This was the theme of an episode of Everybody Hates Chris. Young
>Chris got a job on the school newspaper but nobody liked what he
>wrote until he made up some Iceberg Slim type stories about his
>neighborhood. Then he was a hit.
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