[thelist] RE: [thelist] Re: [thelist] This site will make you cry (to the tune of £1 ,000,000)

Shashank Tripathi sub at shanx.com
Wed Jul 10 18:47:01 CDT 2002


    | Enough
    | blogger interest usually attracts the bigger media sites,
    | and this thing deserves all the bad press we can throw at it.


One thing to note though is that bad press or good press, more press is
usually defined as "success" in marketing circles because it draws
eyeballs to their website. Once they are well known, even negatively so,
then they can redesign in the future and say "Look, we're much better
now". Which will be heard by a lot more people than if they had not been
publicized at all in the first place.

Think of Osama Bin Laden. Among the world's most popular individuals,
albeit negatively so.  The media hogged him down, Time even nominated
him for the Man of the Century (can you believe what these nuts will
come up with). Al Qaeda will think of that as major success. This whole
war on terror thingie. Major success. Think of the alternative: don’t
publicize (i.e., aggrandize) scum like Bin Laden at all. Ignore them,
and they die.

Just a thought. My point is: indifference to that ludicrous website is
perhaps the best punishment they deserve. Ignore it instead of blogging
it all over.

-Shanx.




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