POSTED BY

Joel Johnson

AT 8:51 AM
Wednesday November 26, 2008

Fuck Up • Phones and Wireless

astroturf • krave • mgoode • michael goode • motorola • viral marketing

"I'm working with Motorola now, and I'm a huge fan of Sarah Palin pornography"

Teresa has discovered that "Michael 'MGOODE' Goode", our infamous Motorola Krave spammer, really likes the idea of Sarah Palin's "winking hands" all over the Krave's touchscreen. He wrote on October 30th on a post about the Sarah Palin pornography ad:

I wonder what kind of phone she's using? I bet it's the "krave" by Motorola. (motorola.com/krave) It's got a HUGE touch screen, so she can get her winking hands all over it.
I've decided Michael Goode is a meme-starting genius.

The post in question [BTownBoyz.Blogspot.com]

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8 Comments

usonia

#1 – 9:14 AM November 26, 2008

Boy, I'm sure glad my winking hands aren't that winky! Since I've started reading with these mgoode posts, I'm already sick of the meme.
That is all.

Adam_

#2 – 9:23 AM November 26, 2008

You know you're giving them exactly what they want by talking about them, right?

Kieran O'Neill

#3 – 11:11 AM November 26, 2008

What we need is not a "Michael Goode" meme, but a "Motorola hates the blogosphere" meme.

Takuan

#4 – 11:32 AM November 26, 2008

talking about how SHITTY THE KRAVE IS?

Kieran O'Neill

#5 – 11:33 AM November 26, 2008

I found some reviews of the Criss Angel / Cirque de Soleil show he's been spamming on the side, and it sounds pretty crap. I guess this is a desperate attempt to try to garner some positive publicity.

Going by the negative reviews of the show, the phone must be really, really awful for Motorola to have enlisted his services...

usonia

#6 – 4:57 PM November 26, 2008

Adam - I couldn't agree more, yet here I am, a print ad designer, duped by a godawful, awkward, stupid but nearly perfect campaign.

chef

#7 – 2:34 AM November 27, 2008

Whatever the meme, I think that the main success of the viral campaign is reminding people that Motorola makes phones. The problem is that we're also reminded that their phones still suck. Go marketing!

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#8 – 4:52 PM December 1, 2008

I already knew that Motorola makes phones. What Michael m'Goode's astroturf messages tell me is that the people in charge of the Krave (1.) are seriously clueless, and (2.) think it's okay to lie to us.

I suppose it's still possible that some future combination of circumstances might see me buying a Krave -- I'm being chased by evil mobsters, say, and the plot requires that I steal the cellphone of some kindly stranger who's helped me, but the plot's also furnished me with some insane amount of cash, so I leave $5K and an abjectly apologetic note -- but it's much less likely now.

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