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A friend of ours, Carl London, recently brought a great new service to our attention:
CNN recently launched a
tool that enables users to purchase recent news article titles on t-shirts. This beta service was quietly released today with the sudden appearance of little shirt icons next to the video icons on their homepage.
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But you better hurry because the wearable headlines are only available as long as the article is featured as latest news on
CNN. Click on a title and
you will see the headline on three different American Apparel shirts (gray, black or white), each priced at $15. Once you buy a shirt, you can even share it on
Facebook.
"Just t-shirts?" you say (like those
nay-sayers over at Wired). Maybe so, but we thinks it's one of the the most surprising, and enjoyable, recent online innovations from a major media outlet. And we're not alone in this opinion. At least
one other blogger feels that
CNN's new t-shirt service is "the most brilliant Web 2.0 initiative we've seen from stodgy old
Time Warner since … since."
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As fans of the news – funny news, most of all – we love the idea of people wearing headlines as personal statements (including the
t-shirt at right which, we are assured, is a real headline that formerly read
"ABC News ****** up the Pennsylvania debate"). But the opportunities for abuse inherent in the
CNN t-shirt API open the door for humor even further. You can write their own t-shirt URL and create an "official"
CNN tee that says anything you want (though the site appears to block the purchase of illegitimate and outdated headlines).
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Postscript (4/22/2008, 4:09pm): Looks like CNN has already fixed the URL-hack. So much for my backdoor headline tees!)
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