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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Zuckerberg said advertisements on thefacebook.com would pay for Wirehog. He said Wirehog would likely feature some sort of advertising in the future but will remain ad-free...
...mass marketers love hip. It makes everything from trucker caps to old Lynyrd Skynyrd albums more salable. Long after his death, even Kerouac found himself trapped in an ad campaign for the Gap. This is the same writer who once told his journal, "I am he who has adopted the Sorrows ... The Serious, the Severe, the Stubborn, the Unappeased." You wouldn't think he was a man who in life would be selling khakis. No problem. All they had to do was wait until he was dead...
...Dean, Max Cleland and Michael Moore have all stoked draft fears. Democratic Iowa Senator Tom Harkin told the Des Moines Register this month that the White House has "secret plans" to begin a draft. And Rock the Vote, the left-leaning group started by the music industry, is running ads featuring a forlorn-looking young man getting a buzz cut. "OFF TO COLLEGE OR OFF TO WAR?" the ad asks. "Could you be drafted...
...among the majority of Americans who live in blue zones like New York and California or red ones like Texas and Mississippi, you probably have heard little more from the campaigns than the distant rumble of artillery--the flicker of a campaign ad as you flip from TLC to the Golf Channel, a quick glimpse of a candidate who is in the area to raise some money. But if you live in Ohio or Wisconsin or Florida or Pennsylvania, you are getting more attention from the presidential campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race...
Some novel tactics of voter mobilization are being tested as well. Votergasm.org is asking for volunteers to have sex with a voter--and to withhold from nonvoters--on election night. Convinceyourmom.com offers tips for the "frustrated young lefty" for swaying his or her parents to vote against Bush. An ad in a local paper in the northwestern tip of New Mexico sought young women 16 to 28 who could "do a dance number and represent American diversity" at Republican events. Applicants, it warned, "must be able to smile and stay pleasant for long hours...