Everyone’s been waiting for the CLIQ, Motorola’s desperate-but-anticipated dive into Androidery, and we were ready to be excited about it. Problem is, you wouldn’t have known from the launch, which was gloriously mishandled.
Last week brought a distressing tale of sobriety and job loss from Redmond, but following a concerted internet scorn-fest, Microsoft has come back around to the idea of a corporate campus pub. Mostly.
More than often, we get dumb press releases here in Gizmodo. This one starts with the following: “MAKE MUM THE ENVY OF THE BLOCK WITH STYLISH WESTINGHOUSE LCD HDTVs.” It goes downhill from there.
It’s not uncommon for the press to receive Christmas Cards from members of PR, but this one from Everpeace Tech seemed…particularly noteworthy.
Just when you think PR folks and bloggers got along semi-decently, you get a report of one such exchange where the PR person challenges the blogger to a fistfight. Updated 2:43 PM EST
Remember Nicholas Ciarelli, the precocious tween who started a successful Apple rumour blog only to have it shuttered by the company’s legal team? He’s now posting on the DailyBeast, and he’s got some interesting things to say about his favourite plaintiff: namely that since the negative PR resulting from Ciarelli’s case, Apple seems to have realised the buzz-building value of early leaks and non-response to rumours. Nicholas might still be pretty young, but he’s also still right. It’s definitely worth a read. [DailyBeast]
