AmazonFail

Apr 12, 2009 21:59

Okay, I am hardly ever up on these Twitter-centric explosive internet protest phenomenons, but I caught wind of this on one of the queer blogs I frequent and thought I should pass it on ( Read more... )

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kopiikat April 15 2009, 03:35:24 UTC
Good news!! (I think?) If you haven't heard ( ... )

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natural_intel April 16 2009, 01:48:23 UTC
Thanks Mi! Yes, I have heard about this, and am on the fence as to whether or not I believe it. I suppose I should give them benefit of the doubt, but any way you slice it, they handled the entire situation with a bureaucratic ineptitude surpassed only by the Federal Government.

For an internet corporation, you'd think they would have understood the value of orchestrating a real-time response across a variety of web-based outlets, as opposed to stonewalling for 48 hours and then releasing a statement to print media. It's not unlike standing in front of a crowd and calling a radio station to broadcast their message. Well, anyway, I hope this is a lesson learned.

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midsummermuse April 28 2009, 22:54:36 UTC
I wonder if this affected a book I recently bought for my multicultural education class--about the history of LGBT school workers: Fit to Teach by Jackie M. Blount. It was real good too. :-( Dumb Amazon.

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