No Love for SFX Baseball's Strong-Arm Tactics

By leelefever on July 30, 2007 - 3:06pm.

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• friends
• legal
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I just got an email from Patrick O'Keefe, a friend that I've known through the web for years. His story got my blood boiling and I want to share it.

Updated:  Patrick will not have to give up his site (for now).  

Plenty of Fish and Dating Site Disruption

By leelefever on June 11, 2007 - 9:03pm.

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• advertising
• business
• community
• disruption
• google
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If you haven't heard about Markus Frind and his dating site at plentyoffish.com, you will.

Jake Takes on American Airlines

By leelefever on September 22, 2005 - 6:36pm.

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• business
• disruption
• friends
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I love this kind of thing- the little guy does what he can to take on a big company. Jake is a loyal customer (platinum member) of American Airlines, but got dissed recently over a $50 mix-up that was their fault and got insulted at the same time.

So, he's written a letter to the company explaining the circumstances and counting (literally, by the second, on his site) how long it takes to get an reply/apology from the company. Will they reply? Does it matter that he's blogging it all? It'll be interesting to watch. Oh, and he's having a contest for anyone who wants to guess. GO Jake!

The Blogumentary Battle

By leelefever on June 6, 2005 - 5:51pm.

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• blogging
• disruption
• video
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The other day, Nancy White asked me if I had ever heard about this documentary about blogs called 59 bloggers. I hadn't, but checked out the (Wordpress) web site, which was a blog, but with only one entry. One weird thing was that the blogroll still had the wordpress defaults. Something seemed weird.

Then, Duncan posts Don't mess with us nerds which tells the sordid tale of the "59 Bloggers" guy and his attempted bullying of Chuck Olsen, who has been working on a blogumentary (a term he coined) since 2002 and is a friend of the blog world.

Community Guy Snapcast on Kryptonite

By leelefever on May 5, 2005 - 8:09am.

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• community
• disruption
• podcast
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We we're actually "on" kryptonite, but we talked about it during the podcast. Jake McKee, Chris Carfi and me talked about the recent story about Kryptonite- bike locks that can be picked with a bic pen.

More than that, we focused on how the company handled the affair and Jake's recent email interview with the Kryptonite PR person. As always, it was a good time. Enjoy.