On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
.. Glad to see more reliable sources (c-net), could be nice to have this added to the Dell article if people see it fitting.
Based on what I have seen so far, adding this to the Dell article on Wikipedia would be undue weight (and a corporate attack) unless there was a consistent pattern of Dell selecting twits like this to MC their events.
Tom has mentioned that Dell has used sexist advertising in the past, which would be more directly relevant as it is not a once of mistake. However even that would need to be put in context of the sector to see whether their use of sexist marketing is worse than others.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Della_computers
Or perhaps if we gather enough content a "Epic sexist fails at Dell" article is warranted ;)
Has there been any response from Dell about this, on twitter? Or did they bunker down and pretend it didnt happen? How have they responded to other criticisms..?
A wikinews investigative journalism story would be a great way to bring more facts about this to the public domain.
-- John Vandenberg