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You would think we would no longer be surprised by the tactics that spammers will employ to hawk their junk.

However, some crafty bastards are creating “spam” avatars in mybloglog and then surfing blogs so their avatars appear on sites with the mybloglog “Recent Readers” widget. >>> giving them visibility and thus a couple curious clicks.

Screen shot:

I love mybloglog, but if they don’t get this under control they’re gonna lose subscribers quickly!

 2/14/2007: The most interesting part about this graphic now is the fact that the images used in the avatars correlate to the names they have chosen.

It’s no surprise that Broadband Video is the perfect channel through which politicians can reach their varied and desired target audiences.

Ken Liebeskind of ShootOnline’s iSpot gives a good recap of it’s initial usage thus far in the 2008 Presidential campaign:

“Candidates Use Broadband Videos To Announce Presidential Bids”

I’m quoted in the article and agree with is conclusions. I have to say though that the last qoute should read:

“What we call ‘web 2.0′ technology is enabling users to share media. This sharing ability creates social media. People can comment on it, tag it, mash it up, and foward it on. How do you interact with a TV spot? Really?”

I’m looking forward to working on some interesting interactive implementations this political season and seeing how the rest of the field embraces the new tools that have been created for them to use.

It hasn’t hit the mainstream yet as it is still a little early in this election season, but the political marketing/campaigning buzz will center around the social media aspect of each campaign.

You know what though…I have to wonder if a democratic candidate will create a profile on myspace (owned by FOX> FOX no likey ‘democrate party’ [sic]). Will a republican?

Frankly, I’m speechless.

I just saw a new BMW commercial on NBC that featured the “Nintendo 64 Kid” aka “N64 Kid”. The overly enthusiastic response to receiving an N64 console is used to elicit a connection with BMW’s holiday messaging: “remember when wishes came true, they still can”.

Anyhow, I’m interested in how this actually developed. Obviously, the N64 kid was uploaded to YouTube originally, but did YouTube broker this deal? Or did N64 kid’s handlers hook this up?

Anyone with info please comment.

Oh, my video blogger Plugin is screwing up. Until I fix it, check out the Original N64 Kid Video and the new BMW N64 Kid Video on YouTube directly.