Media whore wars

[fuzzygruf]

Well, glovercom might be on "60 Minutes II" tonight, but in our efforts to out-whore ourselves to the media, I was mentioned on Sunday in the NY Times (not by name) and then (by name) yesterday in Tom Tomorrow's ("This Modern World") weblog.

In Sunday's NY Times, there was an offshore article by Tom Friedman. He mentioned my "My job went to India" t-shirt, although the stupid Indian woman he quoted phrased it wrongly. They also said the t-shirt maker made a bundle of money, so I laughed and figured they were talking about someone else with a similar idea.

Tom Tomorrow, of the "This Modern World" cartoon strip and website, made some comments on his site about the NY Times article. He had purported that it was a Brit who first made the t-shirt (possibly independent of me, I don't know), and he responded to Tom Friedman. He received a response that no, he was referring to an American who made the shirt, and he directed him to MY T-shirt.

"Tom Tomorrow" contacted me and asked me some questions about it. I responded, and he quoted me here in his website. He was kind enough to post a link to my site and encourage people to buy a shirt from me. So far, no takers, but I appreciated the attention.

Comments

[glovercom.livejournal.com]

Whore! You Win! :)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Can I touch your hem? Or kiss your ...?

Ye gods

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

When I saw this (http://www.cursor.org) (Scroll down to the end of the March 8 entry), I was amazed. Small world indeed, bud; congrats :)

Oh yeah

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

and as for shirts- you should see if they'll give you a discount for one of these (http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_uggabugga_archive.html#107877132842067474)...

And Also

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

Shoudl you feel to defend your honor agaisnt he competiton, have to (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/36158.html)!

Re: And Also

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Trey,

You're my hero today. Thanks for all the links. Just wish I could've responded earlier, but alas, they've still got it blocked from replying to LJ comments while at work.

The one link claimed that my shirt wasn't created until sometime in January, while theirs was made in December. Thanks to you giving me their link, I was able to respond to them and show them proof that my shirt was out there prior to that. But that's really not the point. The point is that Thomas Friedman made a poor argument for offshoring.

oh yeah, i knew that

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

but there is no reason to drag your good name down to the level of that pinhead Friedman's, je? :)

[dacubsf.livejournal.com]

you attention Whore! Maybe you'll luck out and get a job offer out of it