3 posts and columns on sweatshop

Cheezburger's $30M Gets the Taiwanese Animator Send-Up

in Social on January 21, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

Next Media Animation depicts Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as an evil stealer of memes, over-worker of cats and receiver of Internet flames. It’s pretty funny.

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Apple Investigating Foxconn's Steps to Deal With Suicides

in News on May 26, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

Apple said Wednesday it is independently investigating the steps that its supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry is taking to address a recent spate of suicides at the Taiwan-based company’s factory in southern China.

Blogger Sweatshop Revealed!

in News on April 18, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Earlier this week, I had my good friend and longtime friendly rival New York Times reporter Matt Richtel and his wife to our house for dinner, where conversation turned to his controversial article about the health dangers of blogging. “Ouch,” said Richtel about the reaction to the piece. After its appearance in the Times, Richtel [...]