From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T23:58:19+09:00
Subject: Re: anti-advocacy advocacy

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:07:34PM +0900, William Crawford wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately, companies have recently figured out how to get the 
>>unwashed masses to advertise/advocate for them and we call that 'viral 
>>marketing.'  It's quite effective with the sheeple.
> 
> 
> In some really egregious cases, we call it "astroturfing".

"astroturfing" is a great word, for an interesting concept, but a 
different thing from viral marketing.

Of course, groups engaged in astroturfing may use viral marketing among 
their tools to bamboozle people.

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