7 posts and columns on Southwest Airlines

What Is It With Southwest Airlines, Celebrities and Twitter?

in Social on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer for the rock band “Green Day,’’ was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after he refused a flight attendant’s order to pull up his saggy pants. And then he did what celebrities do when they do dumb things, he tweeted about it.

Amazon's Kindle So Cheap You Can Throw It From an Airplane

in Commerce on April 12, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Amazon’s decision to subsidize the price of the Kindle through the use of advertising makes it one of the cheapest full-priced smartphones or tablets. And at that price, that’s pretty close to disposable.

Facebook Is Best U.S. Place to Work (According to Its Employees)

in Social on December 14, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

Facebook employees think their company is a great place to work. In fact, among users of the jobs site Glassdoor, the social networking powerhouse was the top-ranked U.S. employer for 2010.

It's Time for a Dancing Dog Video!

in News on January 7, 2009 at 2:30 am PT

Actually, it is always time for a dancing dog video. That’s especially true before boarding the Southwest Airlines bus to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today and, thankfully, leaving behind the Steve-Is-Dead meme (but did you know if you spin an iPod wheel backwards, you can hear…). But drudgery begone–bring on the cavorting canine!

Lloyd Braun's Not Going to Take It Anymore: "I Am Not an Umbrella Thief" (and He's Not, Actually)

in News on December 19, 2008 at 10:16 am PT

There it was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the middle of a blog post about how Yahoo was “reversing its Hollywoodification” at its Santa Monica media unit offices. The piece also included old allegations from a devastating story in November of 2005 about Braun, which made him look like a digital version of Ari Gold from “Entourage.” Unfortunately, as BoomTown has found out, the bulk of those juicy anecdotes about him don’t actually check out. And therein lies a complex tale that still reverberates at Yahoo today.