Comments on: Dictating viral marketing http://tkg.menteith.com/2008/05/29/dictating-viral-marketing/ ...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:12:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: tkg http://tkg.menteith.com/2008/05/29/dictating-viral-marketing/#comment-3615 tkg Fri, 30 May 2008 09:17:06 +0000 http://tkg.menteith.com/2008/05/29/dictating-viral-marketing/#comment-3615 <p>Your blogging might also be summed up in the terms used in this post as being perhaps a shade worse than what Nuance is doing. As such, it's hard to tell when your opinions are your own and when they'll end up as an item on an invoice.</p> <p>Surely the end result of viral or buzz marketing is that no-one will believe any "personal" opinions they read on the Web? It perhaps won't be too long before "Don't believe personal product reviews" appears alongside "Don't give out your credit card number" in beginners' guides to using the Internet.</p> Your blogging might also be summed up in the terms used in this post as being perhaps a shade worse than what Nuance is doing. As such, it’s hard to tell when your opinions are your own and when they’ll end up as an item on an invoice.

Surely the end result of viral or buzz marketing is that no-one will believe any “personal” opinions they read on the Web? It perhaps won’t be too long before “Don’t believe personal product reviews” appears alongside “Don’t give out your credit card number” in beginners’ guides to using the Internet.

]]> By: brettbum http://tkg.menteith.com/2008/05/29/dictating-viral-marketing/#comment-3614 brettbum Thu, 29 May 2008 20:00:16 +0000 http://tkg.menteith.com/2008/05/29/dictating-viral-marketing/#comment-3614 I actually found your article kind of funny and ironical. I received an email from Nuance about their competition. I thought that entering was a bit of a waste of time and of my efforts. I earn a living as a blogger (wide encompassing set of skills and consulting services that are best summed up as blogger). Instead of looking at their request as a call to shill for Nuance, I looked at it as a call for free content and writing. Work that if I were paid for would cost a lot more than 'free' or even a video game or even a free copy of DNS. All that said, I do use DNS and recommend it highly even if you suffer from no physical disabilities. I myself am fortunate to have good health and I can type about 90 words a minute but still use DNS 9 about 45 percent of the time. I actually found your article kind of funny and ironical. I received an email from Nuance about their competition. I thought that entering was a bit of a waste of time and of my efforts.
I earn a living as a blogger (wide encompassing set of skills and consulting services that are best summed up as blogger).
Instead of looking at their request as a call to shill for Nuance, I looked at it as a call for free content and writing. Work that if I were paid for would cost a lot more than ‘free’ or even a video game or even a free copy of DNS.

All that said, I do use DNS and recommend it highly even if you suffer from no physical disabilities. I myself am fortunate to have good health and I can type about 90 words a minute but still use DNS 9 about 45 percent of the time.

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