BetterBadNews examines bad blood between the Yes Men and the TED conference mother ship.

1. Was the YES MEN brand compromised when the group accepted a free lithium ion smart phone while attending the 2010 TED conference?

2. Did the TED conference successfully inoculate itself from a YES [...]]]>
Will the YES MEN brand recover?

BetterBadNews examines bad blood between the Yes Men and the TED conference mother ship.

1. Was the YES MEN brand compromised when the group accepted a free lithium ion smart phone while attending the 2010 TED conference?

2. Did the TED conference successfully inoculate itself from a YES MEN attack against charges of corporate green wash sponsoring the conference?

3. Was an uptick in worker suicides at smart phone assembly plants in China (Foxconn) due to a controversial “early termination policy.

4. Smart phone CEO’s on lithium manage bi polar disorder and drop call anxiety.

5. Decoding design messages in symbolic character types that Maggie Macnab will write about someday.

Salon: Inside TED

YES MEN FOR SALE

Impostor Pictures Maggie Macnab

Lorri Holt, Al Green and the BetterBadNews panel want to know If corporations are people what kind of people are they?

The judges selected two finalists; Robert Scoble’s (the Scoblizer) video, “A tour inside the TED conference mother ship”, starring June Cohen as mother [...]]]>
Robert Scoble and James Corbett won top honors receiving BetterBadNews Half True Awards for outstanding video reports breaching the gates of technology entertainment and design aka the TED conference mother ship.

The judges selected two finalists; Robert Scoble’s (the Scoblizer) video, “A tour inside the TED conference mother ship”, starring June Cohen as mother and sidekick Tom Rielly and a Corbett Report video by TED conference heckler, James Corbett, mocking a controversial TED talk delivered by Bill Gates on carbon eugenics.

To nominate a deserving video blog for a HALF TRUE AWARD forward video URL to:

info@betterbadnews.com

The Corbett Report

Scobilizer A tour Inside the Ted conference mother ship

Bill Gates Ted Talk

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