{"id":830,"date":"2006-04-02T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2008-05-02T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T16:53:31","slug":"job-op-advertising-damage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Job Op: Advertising Damage Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"310\" height=\"255\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WAw4Y-BQhjw\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WAw4Y-BQhjw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via this entry on the <a href=\"http:\/\/adverlab.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/flip-side-of-consumer-generated.html\" target=\"blank\">MIT&#8217;s Advertising Lab (Link)<\/a> comes news of exactly what I warned about: user-created content that bites the hand feeding it raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November I commented on BusinessWeek&#8217;s Blogspotting regarding Burger King&#8217;s viral video. That comment generated quite a bit of traffic and it forewarns of this sort of situation. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/blogspotting\/archives\/2005\/11\/burgerkings_str.html?campaign_id=search\" target=\"blank\">that earlier comment (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How many seemingly well-meaning contributors will purposely include hidden racist messages, pornagraphic content, or other unwelcome surprises intended to tarnish a corporate image?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d suggest company officers tread lightly. Nothing would make some griefers happier than costing some &#8220;suit&#8221; his job and becoming an online celeb in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Told ya so.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a content creator, this has to make you happy as it definitely shows that Free Content has its own price.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more Tahoe videos via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/3\/30\/20397\/6452\" target=\"blank\">Daily Kos (Link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>{For those unfamiliar with embedded video, simply click on the above image and it should play.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via this entry on the MIT&#8217;s Advertising Lab (Link) comes news of exactly what I warned about: user-created content that bites the hand feeding it raw materials. Back in November I commented on BusinessWeek&#8217;s Blogspotting regarding Burger King&#8217;s viral video. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}