Comments on: Shouldn’t I Be More Suspicious? http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/ Alan Levine Barks Here Mon, 20 May 2013 22:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rob Wall http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/comment-page-1/#comment-24970 Rob Wall Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:46:52 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/#comment-24970 Hmmm – sounds a lot like my experience with Roger. Gotta love those spammers!

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/comment-page-1/#comment-24965 Alan Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:35:04 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/#comment-24965 Thanks for confirming Beth, exactly what I was fishing to find. After I clicked “publish” I thought, “Wow, you are acting like such a prima donna hot head, what if the email was a one off legit reach out?”

It’s not quite as shameful as other things I have seen, at the same time, there is a taste of slime I cannot shake. Which is too bad, as I liked the efforts of the company Mr Viral Media was pushing.

I’ve been reading about people who will Digg for Dollars; I am not ready to Blog for Flattery (that might be a lie!)

]]> By: Ben http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/comment-page-1/#comment-24952 Ben Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:44:57 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/02/suspicious/#comment-24952 I got the same exact “form-mail” email myself Alan. I don’t think that it’s suspicious so far as it’s legitimacy is concerned; I got that impression that they were legitimately trying to disguise a press release/information awareness e-mail as a “hey, how’s it going” e-mail. Pretty shameless when the thing reads like an activist pamphlet and is several paragraphs long.

It is suspicious on whether or not they’ve been reading my blog. I mean, the easiest way to suck up to anyone writing in the public realm is to say I’ve been reading and love your magazine/blog/articles. Without actually praising anything specific that I’ve written, I feel that this “Viral Media Outlet” person seems like nothing more than an “Old, Tired, Last Century Media Outlet” person that doesn’t really understand the connections that make blogging so popular and viral. OR, it’s such an intern that’s been told to send out as many e-mails as possible, rather than seek out appropriate avenues for their news/wares.

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