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What had happened

Jean-Remy von Matt whose ad agency has been charged to cheer up Germans, says this in an email:

“What on earth gives every computer owner the right to exude his opinion, unasked for? ... and most bloggers really just exude...

What happened next was expected. You don’t take chances with the wild west of the Blogosphere. You of course live to tell it, though. Mr. von Matt got a big lashing from the blogosphere. He was even called a ‘low -level moron’. I guess that’s a pretty big thing to say to puffed-up Ad Industry types.



That was of course one of the most searched items on the web. You of course remember the background to this story: The slogan of the 20 million pounds cheer-up campaign was ‘Du bist Deutschland’ which was found to have been used in Nazi Rallies and that caused a ruckus in the online and offline world as well. This in turn angered Mr. von Matt and thus his ill-fated remarks and then the angry online world and...It goes round and round.



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