Comments on: A woman scorned?

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:30:36 +0000

Weird. I don’t like it. I don’t like it when I’m accused of being a “shill”. I’m not a shill. I also don’t sell anything from my blog so I can’t be accused of trying to make a buck…. anyway…

I was digging around somewhere and found this blog about dog strollers. If you want to take your dog for a walk, or maybe into a store… and you don’t want to or can’t do the leash thing (works for cats, too) you put them in a stroller and you can sort of zip down a cover thing to make it more of a cage/kennel thing…

anyway, someone who was selling their line of doggy strollers had a blog. It wasn’t that interesting, but they showed their dogs (little ones) going to the park and looking at the ducks (out of the stroller). They talked a little about the decision to market doggy strollers…. I’m guessing they contacted a manufacturer in Taiwan and maybe customized a stroller idea or maybe it was a standard stroller and they picked the color and the name that would get printed on it… it didn’t look terribly high quality….

anyway… it was a way of using a blog in a reasonable and open way to advertise a product.

Court.tv ought to be more ethical… then again lawyers are not always known for their ethics….

I wonder if there is a woman scorned blog for real that is as interesting as the Emily’s.

Hey, Kathleen, have you thought about a billboard?

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:59:05 +0000

Kathleen, it’s funny you should mention sharing your blog with others. I just met someone at a new job assignment who is a DE. He designs T-shirts (I know how you feel about those, and I generally agree with you, but these I actually like), and I gave him your blog address as a valuable resource and told him about your book.

I never get a chance like that so I was amazed that I even had an opportunity to share information in such an unlikely place. (I do not currently work in anything fashion related.)

Just goes to show that you just never know who you will meet and what information you will get to share.

Hopefully, he’ll invest in your book, or at least share the information with more people who will invest in the book.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:17:48 +0000

I don’t want this topic to derail; I am still interested in hearing how/if designers can use blogs in unique ways to create a buzz about their product lines for basically no money. I think blogs are a vastly underutilized resource (guerilla marketing) and it is very inexpensive to do it.

I haven’t been linking to producers because then I’d have to link to all the designers to be fair because I don’t want to jury. However, if enough des started blogging, I’d start a blog roll. Naturally, I’d expect a reciprocal link in return (it depresses me that so few regular visitors share this resource).

By: Karen C.

Karen C. — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:22:39 +0000

Darn it, I kinda feel dissappointed. But I sure did get a laugh out of her charity donations!

By: Alison Cummins

Alison Cummins — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:17:54 +0000

I found it last week and thought it was so obviously fake that it didn’t occur to me to feel deceived. I didn’t even look it up: I just thought, “Oh, cute, a new form of short-story telling.”

But yeah, it does annoy me not to be told who’s telling the story. Like, what’s the tie-in to Court TV? That part I didn’t guess. And I don’t like the idea that now I have to look up every single bit of input to find out who generated it.