The image here at left is the registration logo for GenCon’s “SPA” (Spousal Activities) program — as they say “Activities for the Better Half.” The program, started some years back, isn’t the worst idea in the world — things for the non-gaming spouse to do, if they choose to come
So, in a Twitter conversation about product placement, post-modern referentialism and Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video, Amanda Palmer said the following: ironic product placement is only ok if you take no money & beyond that give all the income to something ironic. like the Klan. …aaaaaand, cue the clueless firestorm. “OMG
Techdirt points to a story about how Livejournal has apparently been hijacking user links to ecommerce sites, and substituting its own affiliate codes. I was concerned about the possibility of shady behavior when Livejournal was sold to the Russian firm, and it looks like I was right to have doubts.
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