gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": blogvertising (cont.)

July 6, 2005

blogvertising (cont.)

Blogvertising
Hugh Macleod's blog, gapingvoid.com, teaches blogvertising by example. You think he's talking explicitly about blogvertising or maybe making crass commentary on society. Then you realize that you want to buy some Stormhoek wine and a English Cut $3000 tailored suit. You just got sold to. I'm still not sure how I feel about that. All I do know is that I want a new suit.

Thanks, Tony; this actually made me laugh out loud (for all the right reasons).

I'm not always sure how I feel about it, either. "Blogvertising" is still a work in progress, as is any form of commercial blogging enterprise.

My M.O. is still the same as it has always been, the same as what most bloggers do with their stuff- throw different ideas out there, and see which ones stick. Make it up as you go along etc etc.

If you try something and it fails, you're going to get flak. If you try something and it succeeds, you're going to get flak. Welcome to the Human Race etc.

All you can do, of course, is keep throwing new stuff out there. And that's the fun of it.

Posted by hugh macleod at July 6, 2005 11:34 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Just found your site via a friend. Laughed so hard, coffee shot out of my nose.

*applauds wildly*

Posted by: Lab Kat at July 6, 2005 5:26 PM

Thanks Hugh! I'm digging your stuff.

Posted by: Tony Stubblebine at July 6, 2005 6:01 PM

Checked real estate values and demographics at Morro bay.ca /san luis obispo ca and was amazed,yes yes ,yes white rich folk auctioned up prices so even the most lowly mobile home is 99 thou.
What a hoot ,i think i'll live in nebraska.
Oops it's cold there.Maybe bolivia.

Posted by: horsesshouldbesoluckytoo at July 7, 2005 12:17 AM

it starts to become dangerous when they hang upon every word that spews from your keyboard :)

Posted by: jayvee at July 7, 2005 6:35 AM

I'm living in the middle of that class sentiment right now. Orlando's gone crazy with a housing bubble. Most apartments (which are kinda pricey anyway) have turned into condos, and property values even in some "bad parts" of town have skyrocketed. The question my confused cohorts and I keep asking is "Where are all the people who can afford to buy these places coming from?"

Posted by: Rose at July 12, 2005 7:10 PM

But when will you throw a party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/25874546/in/photostream/

Posted by: Bill Seitz at July 15, 2005 2:38 PM