What You See Is Not What You Get
Blogging, Marketing / PR, Misc, Software August 30th, 2005
Seth Godin captured what appears to be “The scary thing about blog ads” on Jeff Jarvis’s blog:
But this is the full picture from Jeff’s site:
Screen clipping taken: 8/30/2005, 7:31 PM
And clicking through reveals the “explicit” act:
“the former Baywatch star and longtime animal advocate’s latest project is “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” an undercover expos
Zoli Erdos
The Scary Thing About Ads - part 2.
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