Comments on: Anna4Qld

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:19:24 +0000

Looks like someone has set her up with a spoof Twitter account as well http://twitter.com/anna4qld. Unless she really is following John McCain but not Barack Obama.

By: SouthBrisbane

SouthBrisbane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:32:28 +0000

You’re gonna love this.
Apart from using mexican web monkeys, !!Californians!! were contracted to manage the !!website launch!!.
No kidding, it seems a subcontractor of the multinational uber-spin meister agency Ogilvy’s, the very Warne of spin, ( or someone of the same name and business-type, who also got rushed to melbourne, according to the brag-blog) has a post up about how she to did the website launch. Or should I say HAD a post up, it’s been taken down now For the curious, this is what it said,
“Mostly, work is work. You get a client, you figure out what they want, you launch a website, and life goes on. Saturday night, I launched the website for the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. In my mind, I thought, it is a nice site, but nothing that is going to get a lot of press or praise or fame. I was mostly excited because it was my first “.au” website launch. Boy, was I wrong. Most of Queensland seems to be in an uproar that Anna hired Sydney and Melbourne-based companies to build her website while simultaneously saying she is all about Jobs of Queensland. Here are some of the articles:”
Then she goes on to list all the sites and posts to date that expressed surprise and outrage at Anna’s betrayal of the Qld web worker sector;
For completeness:
* Anna’s Election site not Queensland-made
* Twitter Spoof Page for Nanna Bligh
* Spoof Nanna Bligh’s Blog
* Anna carpet bombs cyberspace
* Brisneyland Twitter
And she re-displays them all, the complaints, on her page. Unbelievable, that’s what you get for paying top San Fransisco dollar? I bet Pete had a hand in hiring them.
But I reckon what takes the overpriced amateur cake is the fact that Ms. Website-Launcher left her blog open for comment and some wag got on and posted:
“So you reckon you cost her votes just for being a mexican and letting everyone know? Has anyone had a good word to say, is “carpet bombing” a complement in web monkey world or is all press good press? I admire your chutzpah claiming the job, and going with the “Ho hum, it’s a job, big deal, boy did I read the product market place wrong, let me count the ways” line. ”
The things you find huh, when you google blogsearch “Anna Bligh”. You wouldn’t read about it wouldya? Not if PosseAnnaPR-Inc can help it. Ya think the client is pissed off?

By: Hugh Brown

Hugh Brown — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:10:40 +0000

Doesn’t matter where her clothes come from, Graham – she doesn’t have any! (whoops, exclamation point again
I agree about the BS that is “web 2.0 design” and clouded in spin. Just goes to show that even the most grassroots sentiments and movements can be co-opted by vested interests and corrupted beyond recognition in a heartbeat.
Good thing we have defenders of The Truth like Graham out there to raise awareness …

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:50:55 +0000

So Jen should she also only wear shoes and clothing from Queensland manufacturers, type her emails on Queensland-built computers using Queensland-built software, drive a Queensland made car…?

By: Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:40:25 +0000

Sorry Graham, but you just can’t have a website for the Premier of Queensland with the main message/prominent title “protecting Queensland jobs” … made in Victoria! You just can’t.

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:06:17 +0000

I hadn't really noticed that Anna was looking old. She's actually more or less my age, and I think that's reasonably young! But there's a spoof website that plays on her age http://nannabligh.wordpress.com/. Maybe that was what the botox was about. On the subject of spoof sites, there's also one for Lawrence http://iamtheborg.wordpress.com/. Anna's people haven't really got onto this Facebook thing either. You'll see that the Young Lib/Nats are trying to colonise her wall, while someone's drawing attention to this blog post, which makes me feel a bit uncomfortably in her face! One thing to post something with criticisms, another to have it referred to in what feels like personal space of one of the people being criticised.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:24:25 +0000

They had a launch stunt on the tv news with a pile of young labor standing arround Bligh. It only worked to make her look realy old. They should have done it at a retirement home to make her look young.
Bligh is trying to reinvent her self with the new Anna tag. Trying to get away from the negative Beattie Bligh link. The website is a bit light on.