[BNM] [OT] Please digg me…I’ll send you a lollipop

[Mike Cowling]

Hey they're based at the University. Let's get a flash-mob of
pitchfork-wielding, feral 'Scoombers together and get round there to find
out once and for all.......! They take a dim view of interweb trickery over
Moulsecoomb way you know.........


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Josh Russell <josh at overdose.com> wrote:

> you know, it's just possible he's making an incredibly subtle comment
> on that sort of behaviour, maybe i missed it..
>
> but that's not his style.
>
> it's more, "hey guys, i discovered this amazing thing google do, it's
> called page rank! i mean, wow!!"
>
> as someone else pointed out, it's baiting, or bribery. both of which
> are common things that happen in the industry. neither of which are
> useful, form long term trusted relationships, build a level of mutual
> understanding and make me want to be associated in any way with those
> companies. but more than anything else, they don't fill the interwebs
> with real content, they just create noise. which 100 years from now
> will either be a massive problem that other companies are constantly
> trying to solve... or be really embarrassing that we ever used to let
> people get away with it!
>
> so, it's either an incredibly uncharacteristic, very meta, comment on
> the state of media abuse of the industry, or exactly what i've come to
> expect from the history of other posts, most of which only occur just
> after a blog post and then link to it.
>
> which is it raj? genius or noise?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Tom Hume <Tom.Hume at futureplatforms.com>
> wrote:
> > Not conding Raj's approach, but isn't he effectively doing the same as
> > most of the ad/comms industry do when he asks for online coverage in
> > exchange for sweeties? Certainly in mobile-land there are an awful lot
> > of "blogger relations" programmes going on which are effectively toys-
> > for-coverage exchanges. I mean, he's being a bit more brazen but from
> > what I've seen that's just his style...
> >
> > On 31 Aug 2008, at 18:36, Josh Russell wrote:
> >
> >> Raj,
> >>
> >> i know you tend to write pretty spammy emails, but..
> >>
> >> 1) has your email been taken over without your knowledge somehow and
> >> is being used to send us this shit?
> >> 2) what kind of idiots do you think we are?
> >> 3) there is no step 3, because i can't be arsed to call you out, in
> >> fact i'm amazed with myself for writing this far..
> >>
> >> buhbai
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Raj Anand
> >> <rajeshwar.anand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Sorry if you are not interested in a lollipop :) If you are please
> >>> Digg
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If you don't know Digg <http://www.digg.com/> then check the
> >>> website out
> >>> now!! Over the last few days I have become a biggest fan of Digg
> >>> not sure
> >>> why ??
> >>>
> >>> And now I want to be on the first page of Digg. If I end up on the
> >>> first
> >>> page of digg, I'll send a lollipop to everyone who dugg that blog
> >>> post, 24
> >>> hours of me posting it on Kwiqq <http://blog.kwiqq.com/>.
> >>>
> >>> [image: lollipop by you.]<
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/74797703@N00/2814526456/
> >>> >
> >>> YES!!! Wherever you live. Digg my blog and I'll post you your
> >>> lollipop. Its
> >>> simple, you make me happy I return the favour
> >>>
> >>> Process:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Digg my blog (and if its on the first page of digg.com)
> >>> 2) Email me your postal address: raj.anand <at> kwiqq.com
> >>> 3) Wait for your lollipop [image: :-)]
> >>>
> >>> Thank you [image: :)]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Raj Anand
> >>> +44 (0) 75 900 28 678
> >>> skype: rajanand12
> >>> LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rajanand
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