"Live in Canberra" gets recognition

I think anyone moving here on the basis of the website would have a right to sue for misleading advertising: “No traffic jams” – my bum there aint.

At least Adobe make it pretty clear the award is only for sites made by its customers, using Adobe products, to promote their products.

The “award” says nothing about whether an ostentatious flash site with annoying, intrusive sound was a good way to attract skilled workers to Canberra, how effective it’s been in doing so, or whether it represents a prudent use of public money.

The Shill is far more dishonest than Adobe. He not only fails to disclose that the award aims to promote the company’s software, he tries to use it as “evidence” of the Live in Canberra campaign’s success.

It’s all delivered with the same sort of hubris seen in the budget ads, that seems to have him convinced the public will believe his sh*t doesn’t stink, just because he says so.

It’s a glorified marketing campaign for chrissakes.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=sotdarchive&loc=en_us
This is Adobe we’re talking about after all. The number of times the Chief Munster drops the name is a bit of a dead giveaway.

Nobody would have noticed or cared if he hadn’t put out a press release about it. If the “international recognition” wasn’t paid for, he certainly agreed to give the requisite number of plugs in the media release. Just call him Jon “The Shill” Stanhope. How pathetic can you get?

do you want to bet it wasn’t paid for?

Given that there are some 125 million internet sites, 1 of 365 isn’t so bad.

Yep, this is a bit of a wank.

I like the easter egg on the website.

When you ‘Close Video’ it shows you a list of occupations, and if you rollover the ‘trades’, ‘services’ & ‘professional’ text, it highlights the occupations.

‘Designers’ never gets highlighted.

I guess they don’t like being pigeonholed.