Ah, let the controversy reign. Another big company
has decided to jump into the Blogosphere to help build buzz about their
products, and again they are blowing it. Panasonic has a video geek blog allegedly authored by "Tosh
Bilowski". I say allegedly because thought he
claims to exist, it’s hard to prove that he does. Amy drew my
attention to this with her post asking
just who is Tosh Bilowski? and Dave follows suit with asking whether
character or "fake" blogs just always plain wrong.
has decided to jump into the Blogosphere to help build buzz about their
products, and again they are blowing it. Panasonic has a video geek blog allegedly authored by "Tosh
Bilowski". I say allegedly because thought he
claims to exist, it’s hard to prove that he does. Amy drew my
attention to this with her post asking
just who is Tosh Bilowski? and Dave follows suit with asking whether
character or "fake" blogs just always plain wrong.
While I’ve defended character blogs in the past, no dice on this one. This
isn’t a character blog (e.g. the Moose Tracks blog) where it’s clear that the
author isn’t a real person, this blog is supposed to be written by a real
person, Tosh Bilowski. The problem is that it doesn’t look like Tosh exists.
Amy and I Googled him and came up with bubkus. Sorry, if
you’ve been sing the Internet at all in the past, you’re going to leave a
trace. It’s pretty much inevitable. Check out these Google searches on my name
(short
and long
forms). You will find references to my life as an academic (co-authored papers
and book chapters), lab manager (how to get imaging software to work), tech
support person, webmaster, and blogger. The record goes back well over a
decade. What’s my point? Look if Tosh is about my age (looks like it) and he’s
a true vid geek, he should be pinging up on e-mail lists, newsgroups, websites,
etc.
isn’t a character blog (e.g. the Moose Tracks blog) where it’s clear that the
author isn’t a real person, this blog is supposed to be written by a real
person, Tosh Bilowski. The problem is that it doesn’t look like Tosh exists.
Amy and I Googled him and came up with bubkus. Sorry, if
you’ve been sing the Internet at all in the past, you’re going to leave a
trace. It’s pretty much inevitable. Check out these Google searches on my name
(short
and long
forms). You will find references to my life as an academic (co-authored papers
and book chapters), lab manager (how to get imaging software to work), tech
support person, webmaster, and blogger. The record goes back well over a
decade. What’s my point? Look if Tosh is about my age (looks like it) and he’s
a true vid geek, he should be pinging up on e-mail lists, newsgroups, websites,
etc.
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