Our Marketing Plan
I found this to be hysterical:
“Do you blog? If not, get in touch with Kris and Christopher from our online department, although at this point I think only Christopher is left. I’ll be out of the office from tomorrow until Monday, but when I get back I’ll ask him if he spoke to you. We use CopyBuoy via Hoster Broaster, because it streams really easily into a Plaxo/LinkedIn yak-fest meld. When you register, click “Endless,” and under “Contacts” just list everyone you’ve ever met. It would be great if you could post at least six hundred words every day until further notice.
If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they’re better than Delicious), because they max out the wiki snarls of RSS feeds, which means less jamming at the Google scaffold. Then just Digg your uploads in a viral spiral to your social networks via an FB/MS interlink torrent. You may have gotten the blast e-mail from Jason Zepp, your acquiring editor, saying that people who do this sort of thing will go to Hell, but just ignore it.
The vi-spi is cross-platform, but don’t worry if you think you’re not on Facebook, because you actually are. Jason enrolled you when you signed the contract last year, or at least he was supposed to, and he told Sarah Williams he did before he had to retire and Sarah left for nursing school. You currently have 421 Friends, 17 Pending Requests, 8 Pokes, 5 Winks, and 3 Proposals of “Marriage.”
Too funny . . .
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Subject: Our Marketing Plan
Ellis Weiner
New Yorker, October 19, 2009
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/10/19/091019sh_shouts_weiner#ixzz0ZhME7nL8
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December 14th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
At the risk of getting much ridicule by others, I must confess that I don’t get it…
December 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Jonathan,
that’s, actually, good of you~
I was going to suggest that BR ‘take a poll’, along those lines..
I was laughing, trying to envision ‘how many heads that just flew over’..
actually, one has to be in a chair–similiar to BR’s–running a weblog, to be exposed to much of what that post references..
still, post was funny, nonetheless..
December 14th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@Jonathan Says:
December 14th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
At the risk of getting much ridicule by others, I must confess that I don’t get it…
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Jonathan …gotta agree with you..have no idea what Barry is posting about… ????????
December 14th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
MEH…
Sorry…can’t wade through the “Clusty Stuff.” If you can’t give some “snips” as to why we should go over there why should we bother. I don’t need any “malware” on my computer….and even if you are free of that stuff you seem arrogant in your posts that every one should rush over to “Clusty” and have “it all revealed” to them.
Why do you feel you are above everyone that we have to go to your blog to “get another view?” Spit it out there and let us discuss. Otherwise you sound like someone wanting to get “hits to your blog” while you don’t reveal what point of view you are hoping to persuade folks to get to.
I like your posts….but they sometimes seem like “Advertisements.” That kind of chills me out.
December 14th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
TakBak,
??
but, past that, see http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=clusty.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1
clusty.com is a Search Engine..
though, in a friendly way, ‘take it easy on the “Ink Blots””..
December 14th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
MEH….
Ugh…Like your posts because you seem a rebel. But, what I said to you is what I needed to say. Give more snips and can you please stop posting in Acronyms and Geek Speak? Or, is what you post meant to be only for your “insiders?”
Whatever…I’ll check the “google thing out.” I just wish you would be more forthcoming. Or, a “hair more” forthcoming in your opinions rather than being so murky.
December 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
MEH…
Okay…”Clusty” is an alternative to “GOOGLE SEARCH?”
What? Makes no sense. But, hey, if you’ve got a following with that stuff…More Power to Ya’….I hope it works for you.
I’ve seen some good stuff from you occasionally over at “Andy T’s Site.” You reveal a little more realism there.
Why?
December 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
TakBak,
you use google, but you’re ‘afraid of malware’?
do you know what http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=cognitive+dissonance is?
see, key term “Scroogle.org” for more..
and, re: Clusty “…But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.
And with a name like Clusty, it’s gotta be good!”
http://clusty.com/about
past that, if’n you got Q:’s, no prob., though, I was under the impression that ‘weblog posts/comments’, and e|mail were two different things..
December 14th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
You are a happy curmudgeon.. But, many of us are too “simple minded” to understand where you are going with this.
But Kudo’s. And, I do scan over your posts for the URL’s that give some snips….just don’t get into the Clusty Thing…But, good on you for your enterprise with this. Really…not dissing. Just saying it was not decipherable to some who come across your posts to spend the time de-coding.
Just saying. Think what you are doing is a good thing out there…even if only some can get it.
December 14th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
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December 14th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Funny. In a Carlin-esque manner…