BT - Extremly (sic) Efficient
Below is the details of a survey I filled in on the BT website, having had the misfortune of speaking to one of their technical support staff. Funnily enough, if you click all the negative boxes, they won’t accept your feedback.
So rather than keep it between me and British (although outsourced to any country that we don’t have to pay a fair wage to) Telecom, I thought I’d go down the open letter route.
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Working for an SEO firm, I do sometimes get the feeling that the copywriter’s skills aren’t valued as highly as some other disciplines. Designers, developers – they do a difficult job that nobody else can do. Copywriters? Well we just play around with words.
Designers “create designs“. We just “churn out bumpf“.
Being the secure and well-adjusted human being that I am, I ran straight to Twitter this afternoon, hurled myself to the floor and kicked and screamed. Guess what? It turns out I’m not actually alone.
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Nov 24
Meyer's Leading Man - Edward the Moody Vampire
Yes, you read that title right. Stephenie Meyer is a genius. I’ve come out and said it publically, and I can’t take it back. I think that Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight, New Moon and all that other emo-Vampire stuff is a bona-fide, certified genius.
I also think her work is vapid, dull and derivative. I’m not the only one. Millions of people think the same. In fact, I’d go out on a limb and say that unless you’re a teenage girl (or a 24 year old woman who I won’t be accompanying to the pictures on Wednesday), you’ll think that Twighlight is, quite frankly, cobblers.
And that is why Stephanie Meyer is a genius.
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Given that Lisa Barone’s doom-laden hyperbole has spread through Twitter faster than a case of the clap, you may well have read that Twitter’s New ReTweet Feature Sucks.
Apparently, the new RT button (that you don’t have to use and have survived without for the past year or so) is the harbinger of the apocalypse. That’s right. War, Death, Famine and Poor ReTweet Functionality are upon us, and the end of days is here.
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