So, in reference to my last post, referencing the comment I had prior to that: A Raveller more resourceful than I has assembled a blog post outing what was going on.
SubWayKnitter got it sorted here, mostly. Most of which I found as well, by this time, but nicely written up. Seems that my commenter "Cynthia" is a fake persona of a pretty stupid marketing drone for an online craft-market pretender who is not behaving too nicely. In the end, I guess, we can thank her for the warning to stay away from that site.
Also breaking today (well, late yesterday) in the finest tradition of online sleuthing, certain segments of the fibre arts community are raging again, over our second "undead" indie marketer in a year. Yep, someone else has allegedly fallen through on biz deals, and decided to "die" rather than either honour sales or refund purchases. I'm sticking at the moment with "allegedly" and no names, until I have a good link to point you to. Fortunately I have no personal investment (financially or business-wise) as do some others, but I was totally taken in by the "loss" of someone who was held in rather high esteem, and the posts from her grieving friends and husband - holy cow. Who needs daytime soaps?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Tricked, even for an old dawg....
Well, just goes to show however cynical I think I am about the net.... people can still prey on my goodwill.
No big harm done. Don't know if anyone who occasionally wanders by here reads the comments, but there's one on the post before this one that looks to be from a somewhat naive student researcher/writer.
I'm a little annoyed at myself to say I took the time to respond, assuming she was genuine. A couple days later, I noted Ravelry having another kafuffle on one of the main boards. Seems my blog commenter is not a naive but genuine personage, but a slimy and not very well prepared would-be marketer trying to scam the good-hearted online knitting community into providing SOME kind of market information - to what end we're still not sure because what's been found out about the whole thing makes no sense. Right down to the fact that, if other craft/art online sites want info about Ravelry, Ravelry's usually happy to share in response to open and above-board inquiries (they're quite amazing that way).
Anyway, "Cynthia" has been caught out and in the space of about 24 hours much of Ravelry has identified a company, parent company, press releases, other web sites, ad nauseum, associated with the organization behind this "shy" "college magazine" author. I suspect someone's boss might be getting an inadvertent performance review on their marketing staff, shortly.
I was just so happy to have blog comments. What a dupe.
No big harm done. Don't know if anyone who occasionally wanders by here reads the comments, but there's one on the post before this one that looks to be from a somewhat naive student researcher/writer.
I'm a little annoyed at myself to say I took the time to respond, assuming she was genuine. A couple days later, I noted Ravelry having another kafuffle on one of the main boards. Seems my blog commenter is not a naive but genuine personage, but a slimy and not very well prepared would-be marketer trying to scam the good-hearted online knitting community into providing SOME kind of market information - to what end we're still not sure because what's been found out about the whole thing makes no sense. Right down to the fact that, if other craft/art online sites want info about Ravelry, Ravelry's usually happy to share in response to open and above-board inquiries (they're quite amazing that way).
Anyway, "Cynthia" has been caught out and in the space of about 24 hours much of Ravelry has identified a company, parent company, press releases, other web sites, ad nauseum, associated with the organization behind this "shy" "college magazine" author. I suspect someone's boss might be getting an inadvertent performance review on their marketing staff, shortly.
I was just so happy to have blog comments. What a dupe.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Happy New Year!
My goodness, it's all come and gone again. January 5th and I'm still feeling like there's Christmas knitting lurking around here somewhere.
Just wanted to share a few of the Spousal Unit's snaps of one of my later 2008 projects that I hadn't yet posted.
Before:
aaaaannnd... After! The wonders of felting. It can even change the colour of your shirt.
And, not nearly so artistic a photo, particularly with my grungy feet, but may I present the first FO of 2009! True, started in 2008, but I count finishing date, otherwise I'd never have an incentive to finish if I let myself take credit for all the started projects.
Yoga Socks:
So far, 2009 is looking busier than ever. My To-do list by Jan 31 includes turning a fleece into a hat, or I'll be waaaay late with my last spinning project. I've only got blog-time now as it is coincident with some update-computer-time. Later!
Just wanted to share a few of the Spousal Unit's snaps of one of my later 2008 projects that I hadn't yet posted.
Before:
aaaaannnd... After! The wonders of felting. It can even change the colour of your shirt.
And, not nearly so artistic a photo, particularly with my grungy feet, but may I present the first FO of 2009! True, started in 2008, but I count finishing date, otherwise I'd never have an incentive to finish if I let myself take credit for all the started projects.
Yoga Socks:
So far, 2009 is looking busier than ever. My To-do list by Jan 31 includes turning a fleece into a hat, or I'll be waaaay late with my last spinning project. I've only got blog-time now as it is coincident with some update-computer-time. Later!
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