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Phil Enos — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:30:45 -0000

Sophistry (n.) When someone does what I do but without the intellectual vapidity and misspellings.

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Amanda B — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:42:21 -0000

Stop the haterade and the sophistry. It's boring.

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BarcosBarcos — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:11:15 -0000

Danny Brown is hip, handsome, and uber-chill. He runs a charity to help the chrilden and has an awesome blog that segways from topic to topic beautifullly and I read it all the time. I'm with Sheila (a truely brave woman): leave Danny Brown alone! Stop sipping that Haterade.

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Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:13:45 -0000

Hi Mark,

I'm not sure where the "scrambling to pick up business" reference is aimed at, but thank you for stopping by and sharing your views. Appreciate your thoughts and neutrality.

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Mark Anderson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:03:24 -0000

You know, I find the "He runs a charity" argument a straw man of a sort matching the immaturity of the "he looks like a douche" comments. It's certainly not a more rigorously intellectual rhetorical technique, anyway. It's especially not a good argument for the Danny Brown supporters if we were to take a look at what he stands to gain personally by attaching his brand prominently to every charitable press release and, I shudder, tweet.

It's a tough time for anyone trying to make a living, and I'm sure it's gotten tougher for PR and marketing as those tend to be the first line items cut. As someone with no dog in this fight, I just sure wish that we could avoid the embarrassing tactics in the name of scrambling to pick up business. It's the half-truths and ulterior motives that are particularly galling and obvious. (I'm looking at you, Sheila.)

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Amanda B — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:29:41 -0000

Strong opinions do not warrant puerile comments. I think everyone has a little too much time on their hands if find discoursing DB's eye ring and hat are paramount. Millenials...He runs a charity too. A damn fine one at that. Go read a book, kids and learn some manners.

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Jamison Faddulla — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:34:02 -0000

What's going to happen when your company shows up on twibs.com with negative feedback?

Will you petition twitter to "monitor its brand" there too?

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renn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:04:02 -0000

does this clown danny make a living doing this? social media pr and marketing? i thought those were the nigerians who fill the spam folder in my email.

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david — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:27:17 -0000

If you're a lawyer, you ought to know the proper definition of the word "atypical," because you just used it improperly.

And you ought to also know that "judiciary rights" are rights conferred upon judges, courts, arbiters (i.e. the "judiciary branch"); not the rights of private citizens (which would be "legal rights"). I'm referring here, of course, to Black's Law Dictionary, which I'm currently holding in front of me (I'm in the legal profession, too).

10 bucks says Sheila is neither an IP Lawyer nor Sheila at all, but is actually Danny Brown's pseudonym for when he wants to justify the bunches in his panties.

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Alana Post — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:12:04 -0000

So: Danny's a foolish, self-important killjoy whose appearance wants ridicule and who wastes his time by posting some quick item of interest? If anyone needs to calm down and put some salve on their hurt butts, it's this string of unfunny, uninformed folks taking time out of their day to leave negative comments.

BTW, I had never heard of him before this, so it was apparently a pretty successful social media strategy, if one wants to look at it from that perspective.

Keep up the good work, sir!

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Skip Bensley — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:02:53 -0000

You shut them down pretty fast Mr. Brown good job

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Moses Proudfoot — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:58:40 -0000

you're the jerk responsible for having it taken down? my goodness, some people really have a bit of sand in their vagina today don't they! you need to relax. we already know that you SEO optimization folks are the lowest form of life on the planet, no need to cement your reputation as a monumental fool. How long until there's a "we hate danny brown" facebook group too? i can't imagine this will be good for your business, as you're already the target of vitriol on two dozen blogs. let's see how that messes up your "google juice."

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Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:53:14 -0000

I can actually agree with your point that a lot of it is BS, Ben. I think that has more to do with the people that are springing up around it and claiming false expertise, and shilling clients out of hard-earned money, as opposed to the medium itself. I'll also be one of the first to call out any dubious or questionable claims about the topic.

Contrary to one (or maybe more) of the comments here, I'd never claim to be a "social media expert" or "social media guru" - how can you be when there are new tools and networks popping up all the time?

I do have over 15 years of experience in marketing and PR, which I'll combine with social media, to offer clients a combined approach. But claiming to be an expert - no thanks. :)

Thanks for coming back to share your view on the charity and appreciate your kind words.

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Ben — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:47 -0000

That certainly does count, Danny. Thanks for opening up my eyes - and keep up the great charity work! If more people were doing work like that, the world would be a better place.

Still, I stand by my statements regarding Social Media and Interactive/Digital marketing, and you've gotta ditch that pic!
:)

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Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:36:15 -0000

Thanks for the tip, Ben.

The money raised by my 12for12k Challenge that so far has helped kids in war-torn countries escape the chaos, or brought to light child sexual abuse and helped children escape from the abusers, or fed more than 500,000 hungry kids in the US last month - would that count as doing, making and creating?

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jacstar — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:57:49 -0000

ok so you look like a douche with your eyebrow ring, and a dick with your hat... and apparently you take pictures of yourself in the washroom with your cell phone... and post it on myspace, and use it for your business blog

and you have no sense of humour...

rough day?

well at least you'll still get some

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Ben — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:23:51 -0000

What a dick move. Seriously.

This whole "Social Media" thing that you PR and Advertising types are all about right now is such total bullshit. "The industry" will be over it in a year and on to the next "hot" thing. It's just another way for you to fleece your clients out of money. That you take something that's easy, fun and free and try to make a buck off of it by trying to explain to prospective clients that it's something that it's not while using industry "buzzwords" to obfuscate the fact that any 8th grader could (and, in reality, *is*) doing your job as well as if not better than you, is just another example of the disease that is the interactive maketing space.

Want to do the world a favor? DO something. MAKE something. CREATE. Don't just regurgitate crap that you heard at some conference.

Oh, and 1999 called... they want their hat and eyebrow ring back.

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Danny's Sense of Humor — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:16:39 -0000

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

Yours Truly,
Your Sense of Humor

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D Black — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:07:24 -0000

Stay classy jerk. How about we post your personal information and an outline about your douchebag "PR" website.

Take off the hat and the eyebrow ring. Its not 1994.

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Sheila Langston — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:11:21 -0000

This comments thread is atypical of people that are in the wrong and have to come out fighting.

Looking at this post, all Danny Brown did was call out a website that could have long-term implications on people, businesses and brands. Perhaps the owners of the website would have preferred to wait until a libel suit came in from someone instead, for wrongful use of name and IP? As an IP lawyer, I can assure you that this website broke many laws both online and physical.

With regards people citing that Brown was in the wrong for sharing publicly available information - read the key terms here: "publicly available". There is no law against sharing information that is widely available.

Twitter were well within their judiciary rights, both as a brand and a company, to take down this site for improper use.

While people may see it as fun or parody, rest assured that the courts do not take it this way, as the website owners would have found out had their site been left to run and mitigation came about as a result of false information being published.

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John Gruver — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:22:51 -0000

This is exactly why Apple shut down that Fake Steve Jobs site within hours of learning about it..

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TopM — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:53:02 -0000

"Should they be?"

If they want to be douches, sure.

Otherwise, that's what is called 'parody' and, at least in the US, is protected.

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mattybonez — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:19:12 -0000

As I look back on your vast archives, I realize that you've been working on this whole "social media/pr" thing for almost one whole year (well, 9 months, anyway). It's okay, we all goof up sometimes.

I read the article. You posted someone's personal information as part of your story?? Really?? That crosses threshold from just another whiny post into something more personal.

Like I said, we'll, probably just chalk this up as a beginner's mistake. One day you'll realize that your writing something on the internet can cause harm to others. Wait--- isn't that why you were upset about fake twitter? Huh.

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Paul — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:52:46 -0000

Congrats on getting Twitter to send them a take down notice. Now all of the 0 people that this site offended are avenged. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! Let's see what other benign sites we can get taken down!

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Nick — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:14:34 -0000

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