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05/23/2003 Archived Entry: "It's been better than a week now..."
It's been better than a week now...
...since I pointed out that another site had taken the concept of The Question Mark Campaign and started acting like it was a brand-new thing. Ignoring the fact, of course, that I turned out over 30 flash animations under the same name last year.
I emailed them and pointed out that they were in error by attributing the movies to my other site TBTM, and I got back an apologetic email saying it was a mistake and that they'd correct it 'soon.'
Guys, your watches are running slow.
If I was doing a web site and someone pointed out an error, I'd do my damndest to make that correction within a day or two - not let it sit for a week.
Now, I can draw a conclusion here - that the people who came up with this 'new idea' are humoring me and have no intention of giving me credit for the work I did. The work that called attention to this site in the first place. The work that won this site a Koufax Award last year. Remember?
Best Special EffectsThe 2002 Koufax Award for Best Special Effects goes to Blah 3 for its use of Flash movies. The Take Back the Media campaign starts here. The Question Mark series can be found here.
Uggabugga also received substantial support for its creative use of charts. Digby:
Uggabugga’s charts are not only mindblowingly effective, they are useful. I have actually printed them out to make points to Republicans who need pictures in order to comprehend difficult concepts…
In the end Blah 3 won the voting. Digby again:
Blah3. They were so good that they had certain stupid editorialists from conservative papers claiming that the Democratic Party was behind them (and had to eat their words).
Congratulations to Blah 3.
Maybe some fans of my flash work would like to send these people an email and remind them where the idea came from. Maybe then they'd get off their asses and update their goddam web site.
Don't mind me, I'm in a mood here.
Replies: 5 people speak up
Hey Don!
Could you send me a link to their web site, so I can see what they have out there? I'm sending them an email now.
I would also like to point out that during all of this ruckus, and a mention of another site that features links to your Q and the start of the TBTM campaign, as well as a link to your flah page at the top of my links zone, I have been quietly waiting for you to look in my direction.
Psst.... over here! Maybe there is some more html I can apply to my primitive page and put a couple more links to your page on my site, and move you up even further in the TLB Ecosystem...
Let me know at your leisure, ggod luck with your feline and its' mending (maybe it was a hermaphroditic(?sp) cat to begin with!), and as always the best from the Funny Farm to the Blah family. Have a good Memorial Day weekend!
(: Tom :)
Posted by (: Tom :) @ 05/23/2003 06:53 PM NY
Hey, Blah, I just checked out "The ? Campaign" section of your blog for the first time. Those flashes are excellent!
It's a Friday (my day to be housewife since I don't work a full week, consequently, I'm in an especially pissy mood on Fridays). Well, I hadn't heard "Revolution" in years. That song, along with the montage, had me rockin'. I must have played it a dozen times (even with my clunky dial-up).
It was moved by the music and the messages. Thanks.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/24/2003 12:46 AM NY
You have every right to be steamed about this. Those ads were nothing short of brilliant, and those bozos should do the honorable, decent thing by removing it from the website.
Posted by Ivan @ 05/24/2003 03:02 AM NY
I think y'all may be getting a bit carried away, here. I, too, am lazy and shif'less and sometimes don't get around to fixing links for, oh, way too long, but that doesn't mean I don't respect the people whose links I'm failing to fix. It just means that, y'know, I forget to do things. (Sometimes I even think I've already got a link up and am surprised to discover that I don't.) I suspect it is a mistake to turn this into a gang war.
Posted by Avedon @ 05/24/2003 01:10 PM NY
Avedon.
As always, I respect your opinion, and I'm going to let it drop from this point on. But there's a little more history here than the past week's posts indicates. It's been a gang war for a long time.
Having said that, the subject is dropped.
Posted by editor @ 05/24/2003 02:06 PM NY
