Oh Where, Oh Where Has The Captain’s Blog Gone?
Posted on April 18th, 2005 by Paul
…..oh where, oh where can it be?
Well blow me down, me hearties.
I tried yesterday to follow all the links to the Captain Morgan blog and simply came across a load of error pages.
I follow the same links today and it seems you’re taken to the homepage.
The thing is. I don’t seem to be able to find the blog anywhere.
Am I being a little bit stupid, or has it disappeared?
http://www.thecaptainsblog.com/
Or is it just wishful thinking?
UPDATE: It was just wishful thinking. However, I really couldn’t find it before. Honest.
Filed under: General
Well, it seems that the blog was to be a short run affair after all.
The rum-maker was a sponsor of the Final Four basketball championships and that is now over. Like the Nike Art of Speed blog, and others, I’m sure that campaigns like this are sure to come along more and more.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the blog was just one of a flood we’ll see during the rest of the year.
After thinking about the Captain’s Blog, I believe the real ’scandal’ to the whole thing wasn’t being a character blog - it was who they may have targeted and how they drew them in.
The nature of the blog was one of youth. They were targeting young people. The blog featured T&A, sports and booze. Come on. Who were they looking to draw in there? 14-24 year old males, perhaps? That’s the scandal. OK, I know. For spirits marketers - nothing new.
The blog had an extremely lame ‘age verification gateway’ that any 10 year old could navigate successfully. Can’t you hear the little cogs in their heads turning as they are greeted by the Captain’s gangplank: “What’s your year of birth? Hmm? Well, if I must be 21 to enter, then let’s see … 2005 minus 21??? OK, let’s just say I was born in the 1970’s - just to be safe. OK, use the dropdown menu to 1975 and I’m off to the girls, Rum and roundball. Man, I love the internet.”
We’ll see more of these. The next thing might be a spirits blog that gets spammed - or a DNS attack - by MADD and that will be the next big controversy … products using the web to target inappropriate audiences.
Off we go to new issues and these are barely even cold.
You old cynic, Robert. And there was I only criticising their blogging ethics.
I suppose there’s an argument to be said in that the louder you shout lame, the cooler it could appear in the eyes of the target market. That’s if the target market takes any notice of what a few of us - who don’t go out because we’re spending too much time whining about dodgy blogs - have to say.
Not a bad tactic though. Start one up, get a load of links then before the stink has died down, off you pop.
Guerilla warfare at its finest.
I hate to disappoint you, but I was able to find The Captain’s Blog. This was the first time that I had visited it and I put my information in, all true of course because I am of age, and there it was. The last post was made April 10th from the “Captain” about taking a break for a while because tax day is April 15th. He assures everyone that he will be back one day soon with “more words of wisdom.” Just thought I would let you know.
And, Paul gets taken out by an Auburn college student. Oh, the humanity, the humanity!
Nice work Helon.
Yaasuh! I like that! Hit him again Helon.
It’s about time the students put us old geezers in our place. Hit him again. And again. Wow. You really got him that time. Hit him again. Kick him. Harder! er…oops. Not there. Uh, that’s not nice.
Dude, here, let me help you up. You need to have that wound cleaned and treated. Is that a bite mark?
Medic! We got a man down over here. Medic!
(pssst…better you than me, as the non-combatant lurkers always say)
I still can’t find it. I appreciate I might not exactly be the target demographic.
Maybe my blog senses refuse to recognise it. I dunno.
Maybe I’d better stop before I start sounding like my Grandma.
Although, it won’t let me in if I say I’m from Afghanistan.
Dude does “Forbidden. Blog administrators have removed your ability to view, post comments, or otherwise contaminate our pristine site with your gross and dispicable presence. And wipe that blood off your chin.” mean anything to you?
Your internet proxy number thingamajig has been blacklisted. They know you. They know the kind of unkind remarks and innuendos you tend to deposit at innocent leading edge creative imaginative fun blogs.
Wake up. You been banned.