If your site is relevant to the category you’re applying for it might just get in, unless you write negative fodder about AOL, which has owned DMOZ since 1998. I submitted Marah’s AOL Log to DMOZ four times in 2006 (once every three months) which is the absolute limit for bugging them. DMOZ advertise themselves […]
Edited 12-30-2006. It was a stunningly bad year for the company I love to hate, but I couldn’t decide which stories should make the number one and two slots so I flipped a coin. Read on and let me know what you think. 1) AOL refuses to cancel customer’s account After paying almost $27 million […]
Edited/updated 12-22-2006. 12-13-2006: I like Vallywag. You know the blurb on their site? The one that goes: You people in Silicon Valley are far too busy changing the world to care about sex, greed and hypocrisy. Well, count me out. I’m never too busy to catch up on all the latest greed and hypocrisy coming […]
Also see How to File a Complaint Against AOL. “ Consumers should not have to keep looking over their shoulders to make sure mega-corporations aren’t trying to take advantage of them. This agreement is an important step toward protecting our citizens from consumer fraud.“ –quote of the year, from FL State AG Charlie Crist AOL, […]
12-01-2006: No, that title doesn’t describe me (I’m broke). It describes a building. An impressive (125,000 sq. ft.) structure built in the Spanish style common to modern Florida construction, only 4 years old, with lots of eye-candy and other sweet stuff:
Anti-AOL 