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Who Is Imogen Gray? - A Leap Year Day Mystery

Update: I'm not sure if I just completely missed the boat or if something has changed, but the name on the email is Imogen Reed, not Imogen Gray. Weird. There is, of course, an easy way to answer that question. It involves replying to an email. There is also a hard way. I'm choosing the latter, due to my desire to fill some space and amuse myself. I received an email today from someone calling themselves Imogen Gray. First off, nice name. With a name like that, you have to become a writer, a porn star, the editor of an underground blog about your favorite aboveground parking lot band (it's like a garage band, only you've probably never heard of it because you're old), or take on an alter-ego as a supervillain intent on destroying the world. Note: I'm going to refer to this person as a woman in the rest of this piece because it gets all awkward otherwise. Here's the text of the email from imogen@linegray.com, with the subject "Professional C

The Snowblower That Ate the Internet: SOLD.

When I posted my little ad on Kijiji on Wednesday morning, all I wanted to do was sell my snowblower. I thought if I was a little creative and maybe a little funny, I'd be able to set my ad apart from all the other snowblower ads on the site. Little did I know what I was in for. Although it was my ad and my snowblower, the phenomenon itself I think belongs to the Internet. The only thing I can take ownership of are the folks who reached out to me to tell me that I gave them a laugh (to whom I have invariably responded "You owe me $1 for the laugh. Find me on PayPal."). I'm kind of a data guy in my regular life (i.e. the part of my life that currently allows me the freedom to not live in my parents' basement), so here are some numbers that I just worked out: As of when I started writing this post, my ad has been viewed 342,465 times on Kijiji. There are 48,574 people linking to it on Facebook. It has been up for a total of 103 hours, 8 minutes. It ha

Some long overdue Kijiji Action

Update 11/24/11 6:30PM: I'm over 100K hits! Man, that is insane. I was sent this link of some guys doing a charity fundraiser who were reading my ad online. I can't believe the number of people that have responded... Feeling pretty awesome right about now! Update 11/24/11 7:04AM: I have a lot of email. Hooooboy, have I got email. And over 30,000 hits on the ad! On the downside, I have to go to work. On the upside, the new snow plow guy came and I don't have to shovel anything! Huzzah! Update 11:32PM : So I've stayed up waaaaay too late replying to emails and generally riding the viral wave that my ad has become. I'm over 8600 views (really wish Kijiji would update more often...), and I'm getting emails from as far away as Sydney, Australia. The emails are still coming in, though not as fast and furious as they were earlier this evening. I'm up to two offers on the snowblower so far, but neither was where I was hoping it would be. Ma

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April 13, 2009

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