<![CDATA[Fleshbot: this week in bad press releases]]> http://tags.fleshbot.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/fleshbot.com.png <![CDATA[Fleshbot: this week in bad press releases]]> http://fleshbot.com/tag/thisweekinbadpressreleases http://fleshbot.com/tag/thisweekinbadpressreleases <![CDATA[Breaking: Man Covers Torso With Alt Porn Company Logo!]]> Publicists love to tout their client's latest accomplishments, no matter how mundane or trivial: whether their name appears on a shiny gold trophy at an award ceremony or magically inscribed on a tortilla in southern Texas, it's important to let others know that people are talking about you so that those others can talk about the people who are talking about you and soon everyone is talking about how everyone else is talking about you. But when it comes to obscure media mentions, our friends at BlueBlood.com may be stretching it a bit with this PR missive urgently informing recipients that some dude we've never heard of was—wait for it—wearing a t-shirt. If you happen to know who this person is then you are much nerdier than we are, but perhaps his t-shirt wearing abilities went far beyond that of mortal men and that's reason enough to take notice. Or maybe it's some sort of inside joke that not everyone on their press list was supposed to get. Or maybe they're just having a slow news week too? (Still, it got us to mention them, so we guess it worked ... )

Blue Blood Shirt Worn by Award-Winning Programmer at Adobe Show

Rockstar coder Edward Finkler or Funkatron, as he is known on the BlueBlood.net boards, was rocking a shirt for Blue Blood's SpookyCash.com when interviewed at the sold out Adobe Max 2007 showabout Spaz, his award-winning desktop client for Twitter. SpookyCash is Blue Blood's business2business affiliate program where people who run
high traffic sites can get paid for sending members to Blue Blood and Blue Blood-related membership sites. Blue Blood's SpookyCash.com is known for its unique high quality photography and industry-leading technology implementation. Whoever was operating the Adobe Max 2007 site camera was into the Blue Blood T-shirt too, because they came in for a long close-up. Blue Blood head honcho Amelia G's Twitter account is featured in the presentation as well.

In order to spur interest in their new Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR development tool, Adobe held the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Funkatron won the recent Adobe AIR Developer Derby prize for Best HTML Community Application. On winning the award, Ed says, "I submitted Spaz as something of an afterthought, to be honest. I had received some good feedback on it from a couple people at Adobe, but I didn't think it was all that, so to speak. Throughout the development process I avoided looking at what other developers were doing, especially other Twitter devs, because I was sure it would send me into a tailspin of despair at the bush league-ness of my own kung fu. After all, Spaz is the first "Rich Internet Application" I've written. I hadn't even written an AJAX all in any code up until Spaz. So, receiving this award is a great surprise to me, and very encouraging."

Blue Blood's Amelia G says of Funkatron, "He is humble, but he really is that good. I'm thinking Adobe is not exactly bush league in their ability to judge code development."

· Funkatron Wins Adobe AIR Developer Derby for Best HTML Community Application (blueblood.net)

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Previously: Flirt4Free: The Serial Killer's Choice!

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<![CDATA[Flirt4Free: The Serial Killer's Choice!]]> Business today is all about brand recognition and product placement is one of the most powerful tools available to marketers looking to get their client's name on the public radar. Pretty much any scenario will do, but it takes real creativity to reach a mass entertainment audience and at the same time showcase what your product is truly all about. Take Flirt4Free.com, which seamless worked its way into the plot of Showtime's hit dramedy "Dexter," as the title character gets caught perusing the webcam giant during a "pivotal" moment of the season premiere.

"Dexter is an amazing, cutting edge show and having the opportunity to be involved with their production was phenomenal", said VS Media president Gregory Clayman. "It also shows that Dexter has excellent taste in online adult entertainment!"

Oh, by the way ... Dexter is a serial killer. But as Hannibal Lecter showed, they do have excellent taste in everything .... even porn! Behold the full synergistic glory after the jump.

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"Flirt4Free.com Featured on Showtime's Dexter Leading live webcam site makes television debut

Calabasas, CA-
Showtime's smash hit series Dexter premiered last night at 9pm with a pivotal scene featuring live webcam company Flirt4Free. Dexter Morgan is online on his computer and is caught looking at online porn. When the camera cuts to his monitor, he was looking at a Flirt4Free.com window with a scantily clad webcam model. Flirt4Free.com is the internets premier live adult webcam site, and features the adult industry's most high profile stars.

"Dexter is an amazing, cutting edge show and having the opportunity to be involved with their production was phenomenal", said VS Media president Gregory Clayman. "It also shows that Dexter has excellent taste in online adult entertainment!"

The series Dexter follows Dexter Morgan, an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Metro Police Department, who moonlights as a serial killer with a penchant for inflicting his own unusual brand of justice - he kills people who truly deserve it.

For more information visit www.flirt4free.com"

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Previously: Handlers: Hillary Scott Is Not "Tiffany"

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<![CDATA[Handlers: Hillary Scott Is Not "Tiffany"]]> Escort ad rag LA X Press this week posted a picture of Hillary Scott on its cover beside the name "Tiffany", who was listed on page 15 as an "18-year-old hottie" guaranteeing "full release" (because partials are infuriating).

We did the smallest amount of muckraking and immediately regretted it. More after the gap.

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A spokesman for the paper quickly confirmed that no, the performer using the name Hillary Scott is not actually the prostitute using the name Tiffany. Bill Margold, a fixture at the X Press for 14 years, defended the move by saying, "once you sign a release and that image is sold, it can be used for anything all over the United States."

Margold has also appeared in multiple porn films, so he knows who's who.

"But you know that Hillary Scott is not Tiffany, right?"

"That's a chance anyone takes in the adult industry who signs a photo release," he said.

Well maybe Hillary Scott is up the creek for signing a photo release, but what does "Tiffany" look like? I am choosy about where my full releases come from.

A press release from Scott's handlers (quoting everyone involved in her career but Scott herself), didn't deny that Scott might work as an escort; it just said she wasn't Tiffany, and that the X Press "usually puts a recognizable adult movie star on the cover to grab attention however, this time they goofed. Or maybe they didn't goof and wanted the publicity."

Conclusion: Porn is a filthy business.

· Hillary Scott (myspace.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

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