What Would Jeff Do?

This person:

wrote the below in the item description. Soldiers, fight!

How Not to Advertise Your Business

This was on Mashable in response to a story on the correlation between Old Spice’s viral videos and their products’ recent sales. Is Howie unclear on the concept of a blog? Does this principal of Sky Pulse Media, which claims to specialize in social media and customer engagement, not understand the nuances that distinguish most blogs from most traditional news outlets? In most cases, blogging is about niches, attracting page views, and feeding an ever-hungry monster with material. Good bloggers see potential connections and hypothetical cause and effect relationships that translate into stories that draw readers and encourage dialogue in the comments. I know only a few bloggers that have the time and resources to thoroughly vet the rumors, hints, claims and tips that give birth to blog posts. Those that do I usually consider as sources of dependable journalism; all others are interesting entertainment. Chill out, Howie.

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What A Disaster!

Screencap of AlterNet story

Grant, there is no e and there are only three syllables in “disastrous.” Want yourself and your alternative news site taken seriously? Then spell well.

Fox News Comprehension

Tsunami is Japanese for “harbor waves.” Tsunami is both singular and plural; there are no “tsunamis” just as there are no “sheeps.” And “tsunami waves” means “harbor waves waves.” Duh.

Not Sure if I Want My Clothes Sitting in Cider

Caught this gem on Craigslist. It could have been an AutoCorrect error. Or not. Poster, the word is “cedar”.

IMHO, you're an idiot.

I love it when people offer up their humble opinions with the careless regard for spelling and grammar as evidenced by “crazyflanger” over at Consumerist.com. Listen, if you can’t form coherent sentences with appropriate syntax and correct spelling, I don’t care about your IMHO. [But keep at it because I need more fodder for this blog.]

“I don’t know a lot . . .”
At least you didn’t type “alot.”

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