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

[Raj Anand]

Seems like I have seriously pissed you off Josh. My sincere apologies ! My
intention was neither to get a high Page Rank or piss you off. I was just
experimenting with social media.

I don't do silly things on the kwiqq blog with the intention to create noise
but to understand how people react to silly social media. I'm always
learning about the web and by experimenting.

'Scoombers together and get round there to find
> out once and for all.......!
>
Mike Cowliing it is me who is experimenting, feel free to come by for a
coffee anytime. I'm currently away from work for a week as i'm feeling
unwell. I live near Brighton station, give me a call my mobile number is
below.



2008/8/31 Josh Russell <josh at overdose.com>

> 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: :)]
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> skype: rajanand12
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