Holly Aho wants to flex a little muscle!
Oct 2nd 2005MichaelGeek Stuff
A friend of mine is a radio talk show host for an AM radio station and brought up the topics of blogs on his show this evening. His basic contention was that blogs are not useful, powerful or read. He doesn’t have a blog because he does not believe it is a valuable use of his time (that is…no one reads them). He wanted to know if he was wrong or misinformed.
Now I know of the power of blogs, have seen newspapers corrected by blogs (Little Green Footballs is a great example of blogs catching what the media doesn’t), I’ve seen the media turn to blogs for information for stories…I’ve seen blogs influence things such as the International Freedom Center. What I’d like to do is give him a little taste of the power of blogs!
So, if you have 10 seconds and an email address, I’d like to send him some emails from bloggers and blog readers. I’ve set up the link below to automatically create an email from you to him, CC to me (I get an email sent to me as well) with the subject of “Are Blogs Powerful?” and the text of the email as, “Hi Chris, I heard through blogger Holly Aho that you were questioning the power of blogs. I’m a blogger/blog reader. She wrote a blog post requesting a few emails be sent to you to show you blogs are read and listened to. Here’s my email!”
As the emails are CC’d to me I’ll keep a tally of how many are sent and keep you updated. I’d like to have a few thousand sent to him - that would get the message across! (As we’re friends he’ll forgive me the massive amounts of emails - he’ll probably enjoy it! lol). I figured that it’s better to simply prove a point than debate the issue. I think this will do that nicely.
here is the email Email AM 1500 Chris Krok
hat Tip to Scott at Speed of Thought
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4 Responses to “Holly Aho wants to flex a little muscle!”
Seth on 02 Oct 2005 at Sun 02 October 2005 20:37:57 #
Michael, when I click on the link I get
>Dramatic Noise
Seth on 02 Oct 2005 at Sun 02 October 2005 20:40:34 #
Michael on 02 Oct 2005 at Sun 02 October 2005 21:03:07 #
Seth,
Do you have an email application you use like outlook express, Outlook?
The link will open your email software and pre fill an email with contact info and a message.
I will send you the message to forward.
Seth on 03 Oct 2005 at Mon 03 October 2005 15:34:58 #
Writing that email was fun, LOL.
As informed as one would expect a radio talk show host to be, I’m quite surprised this one needed to be clued in.