Hiring Stephen Colbert to Help with Wikipedia NoFollow Campaign

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |

I think I’ve just discovered the new spokesman for our “Nofollow me to Wikipedia” campaign - Stephen Colbert.

As Rand points out, Colbert has already taken many stabs at Wikipedia - even getting his viewers to change the entry on “elephants” to say the population has tripled in the past ten years. His latest funnies include:

Wikipedia - The encyclopedia where you can be an authority, even if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

My favorite is when he offers $5 to the first person who changes the entry on “reality” to “reality is a commodity”. Then mocks all those that might say “that’s not what reality is”..

“Oh really? Go and look it up on Wikipedia, I think you’ll find that I’m right”

Great stuff. If anyone from the Colbert show is reading, I’d love to have him help our efforts. ;-)

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5 Responses to “Hiring Stephen Colbert to Help with Wikipedia NoFollow Campaign”

  1. No Fact Zone.Net » Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist (January 31, 2007) Says:

    [...] Hiring Stephen Colbert to Help with Wikipedia NoFollow Campaign - Marketing Pilgrim wants to recruit him: “I think I’ve just discovered the new spokesman for our ‘Nofollow me to Wikipedia’ campaign - Stephen Colbert. [...]

  2. steven colbert Says:

    Reality is a commodity, and so is your blog.

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  3. Daniel Brandt Says:

    “HATE WIKIPEDIA. HATE GOOGLE. HATE HATE HATE.”

    “Good lord, look at all those Hate tapes!”

    (for twelve million points, spot the reference!)

  4. SEO Says:

    yeah… those stupid wiki’s!
    wonder what happen if we all use nofollow to them?

    Have a good one.

  5. Rishabh Says:

    Yes wiki is really stupid and I really hate it too much

    Rishabh’s last blog post..How to get good PageRank ?

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