StarTribune and Yellow Pages Neighborhood Destruction Tag Team

By kohler | Oct 17, 2008

A Deets reader in West St. Paul, Dylan, sent in before and after photos from a neighbor’s vacant home that has been trashed by the StarTribune and our local Yellow Pages companies.
Here’s the before shot:

And after Dylan decided to clean up after the StarTribune and local Yellow Pages companies, he had an entire trash [...]

Yellow Pages is Paying Bloggers to Say Nice Things About Them

By kohler | Sep 30, 2008

You cant make this stuff up.
Yellow Pages company, DexKnows.com, is paying people to write nice things about them on blogs.
Oh, and it gets better. YP industry consultant, Ken Clark then takes the payola and blogs about it on one of his industry blogs, where he claims the paid posts are “actual experiences.”
I [...]

Idearc Media: Yellowpages Unsubscribe FAIL

By kohler | Sep 20, 2008

Last Sunday, before returning an unsolicited Verizon phone book to Idearc Media in Eagan, I hopped online to unsubscribe. It took some digging, but I eventually found a contact email that seemed appropriate at Idearc. I sent them this email:

Unfortunately, I received an email back from Idearc six days later where Amber decided to pass [...]

CatalogChoice: Catalog Unsubscription Service

By kohler | Aug 24, 2008

Hooeyspewer reports that she’s had great success getting off of catalogs using a service called CatalogChoice.
My mailbox is seriously thankful to me for lightening its load. When I initially wrote about signing up with them, they had over a half-million members and its membership had collectively opted out of over 6 million catalogs. Today, the [...]

citi Commands Me

By kohler | Jan 30, 2008

Dear citi. Just letting you know that I’ve followed your command: I did not discard your letter.
Could you let me know what to do next?
Should I put this in a safe deposit box?
You mention in the lower-left corner that I should (Jesus cross) “See inside for details”
Does that mean I should open [...]

Splogging Kirk & Anne

By kohler | Apr 10, 2007

Ever heard of splogs? They’re blogs full of spammy content. People create programs that generate thousands of pages of content with ads on them, figuring that is they have thousands (if not millions) of pages of content, someone will surely stumble upon the site and click on an ad.
One problem. It takes a lot [...]

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