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Entries from May 2005

Hotel rooms now come with hot and cold detractor fans

May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off

What can you add to a hotel which seems to have everything? How about bad publicity? The Fort Garry Hotel is probably as well-equipped as any in Winnipeg. It has two hundred and forty two suites with wifi, feather beds and a complimentary in-room cookie service to mess up your Italian sheets.
It has a [...]

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Reputation metrics: a measure of your worth

May 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Google, the verb, joined the Oxford American Dictionary last month, just as it entered the Oxford English Dictionary a couple of years ago (and will doubtless turn up in the Oxford Papua New Guinea Dictionary in five years time).
Corporate marketers in Mountain View may choke on their jellybeans in dismay whenever their brand is [...]

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Think twice before you fire that blogger

May 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

If you have any spare Artron energy kicking around give Joe Gordon a call. He’s having a Doctor Who moment and his Tardis needs a refill.
Yes, Joe Gordon. If that name rings a bell it’s because Joe created headlines last January when he was fired by Waterstone’s the bookseller for blogging a couple of bad [...]

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Hell is a freshly-minted press release

May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off

New kid on the blog? Not exactly. More like old blogger in new clothing. And no, not pyjamas. It’s good to be back.
I thought of issuing a press release to celebrate but as I recently banned both words from appearing within twenty syllables of each other in this house, a virtual bottle of champagne cracked [...]

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