Hi there sir! You're an intelligent chap. I didn't half respectfully disagree with your post, however.
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Thats all incredibly true CUS - but I can't really do that. It's too hard, and I'm too busy at the moment. Maybe later though.
Bollocks, sir. There's not a single even slightly hard thing that I've described above, not a one. The hardest thing would be to 1) get a Gmail account, 2) go to the Anayltics page, 3) do CTRL+C, 4) find the right bit within your blog software, to add something to the header of the page (this differs but still, not hard I assure thee), 5) paste it. 6) save it. 7) upload it. 8 ) wait 24 hours or so.
This is a guaranteed and proven method of extending your reach, and I must say, in all my ten years of web development and in my time working for one of the largest online-marketing companies in the world, I've never come across a free tool that's more useful.
Still, if you think you know better, I don't want to tell you what to 'do', sir.
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Instead I'm proposing (a far harder task) of creating a decentralised viral movement. Maybe. Kinda.
Except without being decentralised, obviously. Arf
And without being viral - this would be an example of guerilla marketing.
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a strong gimmick/meme that we can sell to diggers and the like to give it purpose.
1) You think this needs purpose? Er. I do not understand.
2) If you want a net-neutrality meme, the obvious thing would be "This is how your internet would work if you allow this to happen." and example the hideous horrors. There are few things that appeal more to the typical internet user than the suggestion that they'd have to go back to modem speeds 'other than for top-tier premier entertainment portals such as disney.com'.
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How about A monocled 'up July 4th Independence day as it were. Lots of Independence day propaganda retooled with monocles, top hats crumpets and britishness to be about the net neutrality.
1) You've picked a day guaranteed to be full of news - July 4th tends to generate lots of stories. Yours will be lost.
2) Every year I read of various independence-related stories e.g. 'All the homosexuals in Townsville, Countyshire gave a proud and rambunctious parade through the rainy streets of Townsville, surprising bemused shoppers and amused commuters alike.' They're cheesy and irritating. Yours will be lost.
3) Your delivery would completely overwhelm the message. There's a reason that people being angry about beer on the tube, drank beer... on the tube. Granted, it's harder when we're talking about a fictional place, but still. Relevance.
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Another though - maybe we could convince b3ta to use NN as topic for their photoshopping shennagins. That would produce a wealth of material...
I like your idea; I worry however in case it might backfire. I don't go on b3ta, I find it predictable and rapidly tiresome; would there be some guarantee of being 'on message'? b3ta fans will know this.