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Firstline Followup: Thoughts on Reality Shows, Direct Sales, and Deception

by Karoli on August 1, 2007

The discussion on my Firstline posts has been very interesting. I’ve had comments from Firstline employees, past and present that bring a well-rounded point of view to the whole discussion.
Mike has also been writing a series of posts about his Firstline experience that illustrate and highlight the issues that I’ve mentioned.
Many of [...]

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Firstline Security and The Prodigy: The Unreal Lure of Reality

by Karoli on July 27, 2007

Liz has a couple of excellent posts here and here with great links to some other blogs about Firstline Security and their puppet show, “The Prodigy”. I especially recommend her post on Reality TV and Summer Sales.
There’s an important distinction to be made between Reality TV and a concept [...]

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GoFirstline.com: Evil, Deceptive Marketing to College Students

by Karoli on July 22, 2007

After I posted about the Eldest’s situation last night, my friend Liz Ditz picked up on it and dug very deep. She’s updating it periodically as she finds more information. 
Read Liz’ post first, then come back to this one.  Her post has many great links to media, news and consumer feedback about this.  Mine [...]

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Pure Bull or Pure Evil?

by Karoli on July 21, 2007

I don’t write about the Eldest often. That’s mostly because he isn’t especially interested in having me spew his life across the airwaves online so that in ten years it can be held against him. But tonight I’m breaking my rule.
The Eldest is 26 and trying hard to discover what his niche is. [...]

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