Some like it hot: Exxon-Mobil dismisses An Inconvenient Truth

August 6th, 2006

An amateurish-looking video satirizing An Inconvenient Truth appeared on YouTube recently, but when a journalist at the Wall Street Journal investigated, they discovered that the video likely originated at the DCI Group, a PR and lobbying firm in DC. And one of DCI Group's clients is Exxon Mobil.

Go figure.

Creating a corporation tracker

June 30th, 2006

I've been playing with the idea of creating a wiki-like corporation tracker. The idea is to create a public database containing information on national corporations and their relationships to one another. I'm still working out the details of what data will be stored, though, and I'd like some input.

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