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Re: Generic Wizards Night vs Warner Bros

AndrewGirdwood — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:13:00 -0000

Oh, I agree. If they know where she lives and if she's breaking the law then it becomes much more serious than a tussle with a PR clumsy legal department.

Re: TreeHugger and DISQUS: Make Your Voice Heard!

AndrewGirdwood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:10:49 -0000

Good move. Disqus is a great platform and its own micro-community should encourage more commentators into your neck of the woods (so to speak!)

Re: HMVCurzon, Wimbledon and affiliate challenges

AndrewGirdwood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:04:29 -0000

Hi Glen, good to see you around on the blog again :)

Re: Latin spell names for D&D 3rd edition

AndrewGirdwood — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:16:09 -0000

A 3e or 4e campaign? If you go to the bother of researching Latin 4e spells then you're very welcome to email them over and I'll publish the list here (credited to you, of couse) for the gaming world to make use of :)

Re: Easter Eggs in Mystery Google

AndrewGirdwood — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:11:19 -0000

Thank you. Added. Should have asked you for ideas in the first place :)

Re: Latin spell names for D&D 3rd edition

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:27 -0000

Thanks.

In almost every scenario the author of the post above is likely to be wrong. I know - it was me. All I did was slap spell names into various online translators. I was fueled by one pizza and serveral cans of beer at the time.

I suggest people go with Robert's suggestions.

Re: Eh-oh! Teletubbies invade Left 4 Dead

AndrewGirdwood — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:19:39 -0000

There's something special about a flaming teletubby horde.

Re: Disgusting Google scam loose on Twitter

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:34:52 -0000

I hadn't noticed that. Good on Twitter.

Re: Facebook’s TechCrunch prank underlines the speed challenge PRs face

AndrewGirdwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:55:08 -0000

You're spot on. Speed is nothing without delivery - rushing out tat may make the situation worse. I suspect in some cases we need both; speed and a really good response.

Re: RPG release: Goblin Markets

AndrewGirdwood — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:49:44 -0000

No problem at all. I'm afraid the preview PDF wasn't working on RPGNow at the time of the post so all I had to go on was the little RPGNews post :)

Very welcome to send/add this site to any news outlets you use or your publishers use. If you'd like we could do something more personal like an interview with you here or a discussion of other projects.

Re: Nahast: Lands of Strife (from @Alex_Melchor)

AndrewGirdwood — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:57:46 -0000

Are you sure? Aren't you the famous zombie engineer-writer?

Hmmm. Okay. Will fix. :)

Re: Watermelon juice can provide biofuel says researchers

AndrewGirdwood — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:35:40 -0000

What about shoe cars?

Re: The shattered door and window in the sky

AndrewGirdwood — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:23:38 -0000

Yeah. I can see someone opening a shattered door to a room that contains a melted clock. :)

Re: Arcanum

AndrewGirdwood — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:11:05 -0000

I think the way you'd draw the magic rune in the air with your hand was an innovation. My favourite magic systm, though, was an old game called Nox where using magic took the light out of nearby crystals and made it darker.

Re: SEOmoz ranking factors 2009

AndrewGirdwood — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:47:51 -0000

I think I agreed with it - links will become less important. This shouldn't challenge the more advantaged SEO agencies who've already evolved their strategies. It's bad news to those SEO agencies which make money through link brokerage.

Re: SEOmoz ranking factors 2009

AndrewGirdwood — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:10:43 -0000

I can't even remember what the last question was - the write up puts geo-targeting stuff at the end. You can't mean that.

Re: SEOmoz ranking factors 2009

AndrewGirdwood — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:42:59 -0000

ARHG are my odd initials :) I use Twitterfeed to keep my Twitter stream up dated with my blog and prefix those tweets with ARHG to denote its a blog post. It's a common practise but people often prefix with "Just posted" or "Blogged", etc.

Re: Home of The Weird

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:07:02 -0000

Test reply! :)

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:54:29 -0000

I think it's been disadvantageous to name the singer to trade press. I don't think he's named in the ad. All that's happened is we're debating the wisdom of the ads and, as you say, they're not bidding on the just-as-cheap visual terms created by the ad.

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:52:35 -0000

The Moneysupermarket team seem to do really well. Most times you can see the human intelligence at work. My hunch is that the human intelligence aspect of the campaign sits with Moneysupermarket and the technology is provided by EF.

If so it just proves that agencies have to work hard to provide value to clients with the right expertise and access to the right tools.

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:09:25 -0000

Thanks for stopping by and leaving the comment. Do you work on the account?

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:08:45 -0000

Yeah. Noticed that this morning too. Does it mean the ad is being considered somewhat successful if more aggregators want in on the act?

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:01:25 -0000

Yeah. I noticed the pedigree of the ad. Don't you think it runs a slight risk of being an "me too" ad?

Re: Confused and Gio Compario

AndrewGirdwood — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:59:37 -0000

I think they could have done a lot better. My hunch is that the PPC ad reacted to match the advert and the usual story of offline not cooperating with online happened again.

Re: Automatically publish to your Facebook News Feed ... | Tumblr Staff

AndrewGirdwood — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:15:27 -0000

Looks sexhay! ... but how do you get it to work with fan pages? I'd like to add the company tumblr feed to the company Facebook fan page (which I'm an administrator for).