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Attn: Marketing Department
Amanda Mahaffey writes: "January 25, 2001
Congratulations! [Inside] magazine?s December 26, 2000 issue highlighted SlashDot.org.
Have you considered reprinting the article, ?21 Big Ideas for 2001? on page 40 to take full advantage of your exposure in this highly respected publication? As the exclusive reprint supplier for [Inside], we at RMS are ready to help you design a reprint that will showcase this valuable information. Let us personalize your reprint with your corporate logo, highlighting or your company information. The possibilities are endless!
No matter what your current marketing plan, custom reprints enhance your efforts. Among other applications, reprints are excellent tools for marketing presentations, trade shows and media kits, and provide:
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Additionally, many publishers offer electronic usage of articles through RMS. We?ll be happy to discuss the details on how you may be able to feature this article on your web site.
Again, we congratulate you on your recognition in [Inside] and look forward to speaking with you soon.
Sincerely,
Amanda Mahaffey
Reprint Operations Specialist, Extension 155."
We regret the two-month delay in posting this interesting submission.
this is probably the low point of Slashdot. Stop trying to be funny, it's not working. Just post news and stuff, that's what we want. Cut this shit out.
BilldaCat
What's been around for almost 20 years is the DOS extended ASCII character set, you know, like "embrace and extend?" It does not include "smart quotes"
Besides, since this is all being displayed in HTML, please indicate where in the HTML standards that "smart quotes" is supported?
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Word's smart quotes aren't bad. Proudly displaying to the public that your inferior Linux software can't handle them, otoh, is quite pathetic.
More likely a proud display to the public that Microsoft is incapable of conforming to standards.
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satire, n: 1) witty language used to convey insults or scorn; 2) a form of humor lost on most slashdot moderators.
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Meanwhile, the fate of the employees of Inside.com remains unclear, including those with the thankless job of selling reprint services to featured companies (a retroactive advertising gimmick) ...
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Powerful Media Reportedly Selling Out next
by Dakota Smith
While Powerful Media, publisher of Inside.com, is under negotiations to be purchased by Primedia and Brill Media Ventures, the Inside.com staff has decamped to a nearby bar to drink their blues away, according to one source.
According to those familiar with the company, the staff at Inside.com remains largely in the dark, having been told little about the pending acquisition, which was first reported yesterday by the Industry Standard. A morning meeting was held at Inside.com offices, but by afternoon, Inside.com staffers had gathered at Half King, the watering hole founded by journalist Sebastian Junger.
"People are mostly confused," said a source familiar with Inside.com. "They don't know what's going to happen because the founders haven't made any kind of formal announcement to employees."
On Thursday, a user named "Brooke" sent a message via Dot Com Scoop subscriber's cell phones that read: "Brill's Content to announce another merger and possibly more layoffs today."
The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, would consolidate Brill's Content and Inside magazines, while Inside.com would become part of Media Central, the newly formed subsidiary of Primedia and Brill Media Holdings. Layoffs are expected at both Brill's Content and Powerful Media, according to the reports. Powerful Media has 100-plus employees and offices in Los Angeles and New York.
In the last two months, a number of published reports have suggested Powerful Media, financed to the tune of $30 million by Flatiron Partners, Standard Media International and Morgan Stanley, was looking for a buyer, and had been in talks with publishers Cahners, Primedia, and VNU.
The New York Post reported that VNU, owner of The Hollywood Reporter, was the lead contender. But John Babcock, CEO of VNU-owned BPi, told the Daily in a recent interview that no deal was even close to being hammered out between Powerful Media and VNU.
"To my knowledge, I don't think there has been any offer made," said Babcock. "But its true they [Inside] are out there and that they are very desperate to sell their company."
Babcock said that Inside.com would be "a cash drain under their current configurations" for any company that purchased it. Still, the CEO was honest in his assessment of Inside.com founders Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen, and the way the two luminaries have handled their company.
"I've never seen two guys that are better at creating hype," said Babcock.
Why the heck has this SPAM been posted to slashdot? Who's approving these lame posts? I'm starting to feel like the trolls are in the right here. Geez.
Just because you disagree doesn't make it offtopic or flamebait.
... for story moderation, this day was it. What a load of crap, all freaking day. Just mod April 1 2001 down to about -6*10^6 and let's move on to tommorow. gah!
I have to laugh whenever I get it. It and the "Get out of debt" and the "Swedish schoolgirls with giant hairy eyebrows want to lick your nostrils". But I'll give spammers this much: they're getting a little smarter with their fake subject lines to get me to at least open the mail before it gets dumped to my trash bin.
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I knew there was a scuzzy underbelly to the Free Software Foundation. This whole Open Source movement wasn't an ideological thing at all, it was a method of collecting email addresses! DAMN YOU!
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You know, it'd be nice if this horribly formatted and full-of-umlauts submission were, well.. formatted. It's quite sad that /. has to post its spam, to fill up space, now. I'm just waiting for Jon Katz to dispense his April Fool's story... and curious as to what he could possibly parody.
This is just absolute crap. Granted, slashdot has usually sucked on April Fools jokes but this one is going down in the history jokes.
I can picture the events that lead to this:
Jamie: Here Rob, let me get you another drink. Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie: So, Rob, can I be in charge of April Fools for slashdot?
Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie, repeat after me:
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
Some people are, some people aren't. You aren't, please for the love of all that is good in the universe stop attempting to be.
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ThinkGeek.
Somehow I thought
I can't wait for tomorrow...
Does anyone remember what happened last year on April fools day on Slashdot? Was it really this bad? For a bunch of nerds (readers included) with nothing better to do, I was hoping for something better than my own lame excuses for April fools jokes.
By God, even MIT (those nerds) had pretty funny stuff on their front page. Most hilarious pictures (and article) ever.
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wow just thought of these for /.
/. now?
Lamborghini Diablo with the license plate "dot com "speeding through an S curved mountain at high speeds. In pursuit three cop cars. As they continue chasing the car, it pulls into an Internet cafe bar, out jumps a pencil pouch wearing (IPO rich) geek who runs into the Internet cafe, rents a workstation, quickly types in first post before he gets arrested.
They Might Be Giants music plays as the screen fades into "Slashdot News For Nerds" yadda yadda yadda...
Where's my contract for marketing
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