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September 28, 2005

Enunciate when you say you "blog"

Otherwise, British folks will think you're up to something considerably more disgusting.

SC thinks he has issues with the survey being described -- how many taxi drivers are likely to spend much time at computers (as opposed to reading billboards or hearing radio ads)? On the other hand, both blogging and "dogging" seem to involve at least a little tech savvy, so maybe this issue isn't really relevant.

Your host had never heard of "happy slapping" before this, either -- at least, not by that name -- so maybe he's simply not hip enough to be advertised to. Or maybe the lesson is that the advertising firm that ran the study needs to get their clients' ads to run at the beginning of happy slap videos. Or maybe it's just that somebody forgot the whole point of doing demographics research, and that you should only run ads in a given medium if you actually have something to sell to its consumers.

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