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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I've know Rogier van Bakel for over 15 years. He wrote for Wired when I was an editor there, and he's also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Christian Science Monitor, Reason magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Playboy. Here's an interesting story from Rogier about his experience with eBoost, a search engine optimization company. He asked me to share it with Boing Boing's readers:...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. So, too, are the people behind the pen, like bloggers. Earlier this week our friend Brad Walsh took to the internet - and his media pals - to spread the word about his encounter with a violently homophobic truck driver who worked for a Yuengling Beer [...]
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BAKEL Blog gets a call from eBoost’s customer service… “Hey Roger van Backel [butchering my name with obvious relish], you are a faggot! So listen to this, queer!” [unintelligible background noise and talking, then the name 'Roger' again, then she hangs up] Source
