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Diamond Geezer, I have followed your blog for about a year now and love to read about your walks. I have lived in Australia since 1975 and your commentary either brings back memories or informs me of changes. Keep up the good work and a pox on the marketing rubbish.
The Guinness Book of Records is truly awful now.
Can we please see the in bread cat?
Did the Daily Mail writer see the irony flag flying on the Shard, or was it covered in cloud while he was looking?
@ Debster - there is a whole website dedicated to in-bread-cats.

http://catsinbread.com/

Thought you'd be a daily visitor :)
I must admit my first thoughts were that the answers to at least two of her inane and idiotic and unwanted questions might be "Jimmy Savile"; but, well, presumably not. How very tiresome, in any case
I do apologise but I'm going to have to send it anyway because it's my job. :)

I got the same email, and if I hadn't been too damn tired when it arrived, she would have got a tirade about how a professional PR outreach is supposed to target their messages, not bulk spam people "because it's their job".
You're right that Heather's job is to send pitches to people who might actually be interested.

But actually, ecologically speaking, she may be right to include you in her efforts, even if she is aware of your attitude to her kind. We all know, Heather included, how low is her probability of success. But the potential reward, of being maybe the first commercial ever to be published on DG, is so enormous!

It's just like the population of microbes in extremely life-hostile places (volcano vents and so on). Sure, life is tough there. But so tough, that they do not get any competition.

All the same, getting these things must be a bit of a pain.
To be fair, she sounds like she doesn't think much of the product herself and is only emailing you because her boss said so. In this economic climate, I can't really blame people for taking on any job they can find.
According to Heather's biog...

Outreaching to bloggers and journalists is one of her favourite jobs – getting coverage and lots of juicy links for clients!
Heather is so spectacularly failing!
>>"Sorry to go on about PR emails again..."

I always enjoys these entries, and would be sorry if the marketing spam - and your accompanying ripostes - ever really did dry up.
From the Render Positive homepage:
"We’ll definitely have some absolutely terrible ideas for you to laugh at..."

Too true. Thanks for the LOLs.
I had the same as well.

A few weeks back, I had great hassles trying to get off the Gorkana list which these PR twazzocks use - they even rang me up at my work phone number (which nobody ever uses, as I deal with other journalists' copy) to harangue me about why.
*cries*
An important part of Heather's job, sadly, is to fill in a spreadsheet which is then forwarded to her boss and to her client showing how many people she sent the email to. There will be another column listing how many responded (which you have, though not in the way she preferred). But they need numbers and you, DG, are one of the numbers. Sad, isn't it?
If that is the real Heather writing above let's hope that in some small way you've demonstrated that there is more to the concept of social media than the promotion of fatuous "World Records". Long may intelligent long-form blogging continue!
I bet you wish you were still back in 2004, getting just 30 spam emails a month! http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2004/02/count-2004-last-february-on-diamond.html
Bet you get 10 times that a DAY now! No wonder it's no longer part of the Count!
A cat with it's head through bread WITHOUT a big toothy grin... EPIC fail, Heather!
Hmm. The last few comments here intrigue me.

A mystery to rival the Mystery Count!

dg writes: Ah yes. This. :)
Poor old Heather.

Judging from her photo, she does have at least one thing going for her, in fairness. Hubba hubba.
A clever PR would email you about a rival's launch...










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