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Let's just send in some Amazonian warriors to get to the bottom of all this
It seems like Amazon stepped into a public relations disaster [1] and the
Internet has just exploded [2].
I'm concerned about this, since I make some money off of Amazon [3] and I
don't want to think I'm frightening away readers because of my advertising
Amazon (although I suspect most of my readers read me via my ATOM [4] or RSS
[5] feed, which makes the advertising moot). Oh, I don't make that much
money, but I made more money using Amazon than I ever did using Google [6]'s
Ad Sense [7] program.
I would like to think that this kerfluffle was an honest mistake on Amazon's
part, or perhaps a coordinated attack against Amazon [8] or an interesting
hack of the Amazon website [9] (or was it just a hack [10]?).
Heck, it could have been a disgruntled employee for all we know.
Me? I'll follow the “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity [11]” advice for now (even if it was a malicious
manoeuvre by Amazon, they're gotten so much flack for this I think they've
learned their lesson).
[1]
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNE11S4dgK5n0wvUvpuZAg042tj2dA&cid=1332262849&ei=YovjSeiVJaGCmQeAr7CJAQ&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.wired.com%2Fbusiness%2F2009%2F04%2Famazon-sales-ra.html
[2]
http://www.google.com/search?q=Amazon+fail
[3]
http://www.amazon.com/
[4]
https://boston.conman.org/index.atom
[5]
https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[6]
http://www.google.com/
[7]
https://www.google.com/adsense/
[8]
http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html
[9]
http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html
[10]
http://bryant.livejournal.com/672165.html
[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
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