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The culture wars are still going on?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4380414&page=1
Online Bookstore Charged With Nazi Tactics
Marketing Expert Says Strategy — and Free Publicity — Is Effective
By Susan Donaldson James
March 4, 2008Using a clever strategy that has pit Christian readers against anti-censorship intellectuals, a new online bookstore has impressed some marketing experts with its enlightened approach.
Abunga.com — a kind of Facebook meets prayer book — touts itself as a “family friendly” Web site that allows its buyers to ban saucy books from their accounts. What’s more, if enough customers block a certain book, the company removes it from the site altogether.
Just this month, the Knoxville, Tenn., site banned “The Golden Compass,” a children’s fantasy novel that has been targeted by religious groups as being anti-Christian since the release of the film version of the book in December.
The site launched in the fall and initially blocked 65,000 titles; since then, another 100 to 200 books have been dropped.
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Last month, Martin sent out an e-mail to supporters, saying, “The battle has now begun.”
Stunningly stupid woman with a video camera thinks there is something fishy going on in her groundwater.
I guess that’s one way to become an internet celebrity.
Italian southpaw foil fencer Andrea Baldini (ranked #1 in the world) flunked his B sample doping test on Monday, which means he won’t be competing in the 2008 Olympic games. Cassara replaces him on the Italian team.
It’s very disappointing, because we had picked him out as our Olympian of choice to follow.
Baldini is claiming conspiracy.
