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The Payola Didn’t Arrive on Time
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| It must be that, because the top of the page has tips for switching to Mac on
| one side, and a story from John Dvorak about the time coming to download
| Ubuntu.
|
| Now I have seen Dvorak, in print, long enough to know he has never been in on
| the hit-you-in-the-face Microsoft slant of the rest of the magazine, but when
| his article appears with one about a Mac switch concurrently, something is
| definitely changing. Note I didn’t say wrong, because it should have been
| this way for quite some time.
|
| Perhaps the people are tired of the e-mail they keep getting about the bias.
| Perhaps the changes are due to inner discord, because I’ve heard things are
| not happy-happy-joy-joy at Ziff-Davis and its various entities. Whatever it
| is, I’m glad to see it, because the time is over that Microsoft puts out
| something and the masses accept it blindly, as though it had been delivered
| on stone tablets.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2009/03/10/the-payola-didnt-arrive-on-time/
Microsoft has its Ziff-Davis clowns also discredit Linux intentionally and it
bribes bloggers for Vista 7 raves.
Related:
PC Mag May Boycott Edelman PR
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| Transparency is a word that's been kicked around a lot lately. But
| too much transparency is what got Edelman PR pro and blogebrity
| Steve Rubel kicked around this week, instead. An early Friday
| 13th comment about PC Magazine is fueling a potential boycott,
| as well as fulfilling what the PR world had feared about blogging.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/20/pc-mag-may-boycott-edelman-pr
Getting a Vaio [with Vista, from Microsoft]
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| Microsoft Belgium rang me yesterday (I don?t think they realised it
| was a public holiday here!).
|
| [...]
|
| The phone call yesterday was to confirm my address - the laptop (a
| Sony Vaio - dunno which model or spec yet) is en route with Vista
| Ultimate and Office Ultimate pre-installed.
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http://www.tomrafteryit.net/getting-a-vaio/
Bribing Bloggers
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| It's a bribe. Period. You say nice things about us, you get nice
| things from us. Heck, just say neutral things about us-we'll give
| you a killer new laptop and we know that you'll be inclined to say
| better things about us.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Microsoft Sent A Free Laptop With Windows Vista
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| I'm not sure how I was selected to be one of the people receiving this
| (I'm assuming there are others, but I haven't come across any yet).
| It could be that they are reaching out to bloggers who are Mac users
| (I switched to a Mac back when OS X came out) or it might just be that
| people I know who work for Microsoft or other influential bloggers
| recommended me
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http://laughingsquid.com/microsoft-sent-a-free-laptop-with-windows-vista/
Windows Live OneCare competition
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| How to enter:
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| You have from now until 25th December to post on your own blog about
| why you'd like Santa to visit you, and then tag it with "Windows Live
| OneCare Competition". Only posts appearing on this technorati page or
| that trackback to this post will be considered as entries. From
| these we'll select 5 winners at random.
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http://liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2006/12/20/windows-live-onecare-competition.aspx
Microsoft Traps and Hunts for Bloggers in India !!
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| Microsoft has announced the "Microsoft BlogStars" contest, to Hunts
| for Developer Bloggers in India. After feeling the power and increase of
| the Bloggers community in India, Microsoft tries to trap and hunt Bloggers
| in India to buildup the blogging community, for writing blog posts
| supporting towards Microsoft Technologies.
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http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-bloggers.html
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