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Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flogging-it dept.

New Media Blogger writes "First Lonelygirl15, now Bridezilla. Canada's National Post provides an interesting perspective on the newest trend of using viral videos as marketing tools, and how these fake blogs or 'flogs' are having a pernicious effect on our tendency to trust what seems genuine."

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  1. OT: RSS feed by smoker2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/89 258382/article.pl
    This RSS feed directs to the home page, as does
    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/89 294729/article.pl
    All previous RSS links are fine.
    This is on FC4, Firefox 2.0.0.1
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
    I am accessing the RSS feed through the Firefox Live Bookmark
    I am not prepared to create an account at Sourceforge just to tell you of this error.