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I would have loved to have had the time and finances to have attended CES 2008 (one child in college and twins to start college next year have put some restrictions on the budget). I did what I could and covered press releases.

I wasn’t aware of the following until this morning when I read my friend Judie Lipsett’s post on Gear Diary titled  Total and Utter Crap: Gizmodo’s Stupid CES Prank on Motorola and Us Bloggers

In a post titled “Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES“, Brian Lam – Editor of Gizmodo- basically bragged about committing corporate sabotage.

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This was not just a stupid high school prank that had been perpetrated on a faceless victim. This was sabotage that had been done to companies with massive financial investments in their CES appearances. The potential for lost sales, loss of good will, and loss of face was huge.

 

To find out that this was a deliberate stunt pulled by a group of delegates from the #2 tech blog in the world…I have nothing but a complete loss of respect. What Gizmodo did was simply wrong and quite frankly, in my opinion immoral.

I agree 100% with Judie. I am appalled by their actions and see no humor in what they did. If I hadn’t already quit following their RSS feed because of questionable content months ago, this stunt would have made me unsubscribe.

Check out Judie’s full article here

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