Citations:dot compost

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English citations of dot-compost and dot compost

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  • 2001, "Marketing masquerading as entertainment, The Irish Times, 2 April 2001:
    But in a post-dotcom world, a company must propagate its message both cleverly and cheaply if it is to avoid ending up on the dot compost heap, which is why viral, or e-mail marketing has been such a popular vehicle.
  • 2002, Jamieson Angus McKenzie, Just in Time Technology: Doing Better with Fewer, FNO Press (2002), →ISBN, page 15:
    But then the Internet and the dot com bubbles burst. Many ventures proved unworthy. Others turned into dot compost.
  • 2004, Juliet A. Williams, "Privacy In the (Too Much) Information Age", in Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (eds. Paul Apostolidis & Juliet A. Williams), Duke University Press (2004), →ISBN, page 225:
    [] the dot-corn boom having landed in the dot-compost heap, technologies we once thought of as enabling now just seem invasive.
  • 2005, "Tech firms pay big bucks to join VoIP list", Evening Edinburgh News, 5 October 2005:
    By 2000, a huge dose of common sense had returned to the market, turning internet hopefuls such as fashion website Boo, Clickmango and Pets.com into so-called "dot-compost".