August 18, 2004

Astroturf Gone Wrong. When astroturfing the sites of bloggers who offer opinions about your employer, best not to make it too obvious.
  • I have to say, Ticketek's site is utter pants. I tried to buy tickets for the NZ-Australia netball game a month or two ago, and a search for "netball" brought up music concerts, basketball, and a boat show.
  • c.f: Warner Brothers astro-turfing the same mp3 blog that they just donated an mp3 to. "This track is amazing!! Thanks for letting us listen to it!! I never heard these guys before, but theyre awesome. I went to their website and you can listen to a lot of ther other stuff, very cool andvery good!
  • Good lord, that's pathetic. You'd think they'd let m4r just host the stuff and sit back and shut up, without needing to astroturf. I reckon in most cases it's some delusional but well-intentioned low-level employee. Which doesn't make it okay.
  • Yeah, Ticketek's website is bad. The only actual bad experience I had with it though was trying to get tickets for the Ashes last time around.
  • *receives fifty bucks from Ticketek employee for saying something even vaguely nice about them*
  • Astroturfing? That's a new one by me.
  • I'm thinking...when is astroturfing done right? When I don't notice it I guess, but the whole concept is annoying (I'g gullible enough as it is).
  • For those unfamiliar with the insidious and cowardly practice of astroturfing, here is some background info. Though, "pants" and "netball" are totally new to me. **grabs handful of fresh, clean dates; lovingly stuffs them into mouth
  • "pants" - some weird Brit saying, I think, meaning, essentially, "craptacular". "netball" - women in short skirts chasing a ball around in the middle of winter, but throwing, not kicking or whacking said ball.
  • Netballer.
  • Arse.
  • My favorite sport (it's not what you think)! For my birthday, I want the T-shirt (scroll down).