Archive for September, 2010

Facebook CEO Donates $100 Million to Newark Schools: Crisis PR or Coincidence?

Last Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million donation to support the Newark, N.J. public school system on The Oprah Winfrey Show. This coincidentally happened on the same day that the New York Film Festival premiered “The Social Network,” a fictionalized story of Facebook’s controversial founding that paints Zuckerberg as a [...]

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Bad Idea Jeans: Symantec and Snoop Dogg Launch Cybercrime Rap Contest

Symantec has partnered with hip-hop mogul and porn producer Snoop Dogg on a cybercrime rap contest which invites participants to bust rhymes on the subject of malware for the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to attend a Snoop gig and meet his peeps. Ummm, what?! When I first saw the news, I [...]

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Bateman Buzz Meter for Labor Day 2010

Behold the Labor Day 2010 edition of the Bateman Buzz Meter #5

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