Unscrupulous Seattle Entrepreneur Uses Homeless to Advertise Internet Site
September 23, 2005 10:01 PM   Subscribe

Unscrupulous Seattle Entrepreneur Uses Homeless to Advertise Internet Site Dan Bakkedahl is the new Daily Show correspondent on the block and takes on an insensitive Seattle businessman using homeless people to advertise his Internet company - he calls it Bumvertising. We call it sick. Make you mad? Consider a donation to Seattle's homeless newspaper Real Change - homeless advocates earn money selling a great local newspaper and interacting with average citizens. The Seattle PI has more: 'Bumvertising' is a new take on a necessary evil | 'Bumvertising' stirs debate
posted by commonmedia (7 comments total)

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...not to mention that "bumvertizing" is something we discussed last week. It was also on The Daily Show.
posted by clevershark at 10:05 PM on September 23, 2005


To be fair this post is much better then the orgional
posted by delmoi at 10:07 PM on September 23, 2005


Sorry I missed that - but this does include the clip :) Thanks delmoi.
posted by commonmedia at 10:16 PM on September 23, 2005


Meh, the bums are better off than without it.
posted by jewzilla at 10:16 PM on September 23, 2005


Bumvertising is not new (see 1930's sandwich boards).
posted by muppetboy at 10:18 PM on September 23, 2005


jewzilla writes "Meh, the bums are better off than without it."

To the tune of a whopping $3/afternoon.

I have to question the judgement of the people who end up visiting the guy's web site.
posted by clevershark at 10:18 PM on September 23, 2005


Thanks item - the only way for me to post the clip is on my site CommonBits - a direct post to the torrent might have been more appropriate but not as easy for folks to use.
posted by commonmedia at 10:39 PM on September 23, 2005


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