ScatteredGenius.com

So I just posted this this morning: » Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer - ScatteredGenius.com, talking about how cool GTA 4 is going to be. Fairly soon after, exactly fifty minutes later to be exact, I get a comment on it on the post on my ScatteredGenius.com blog. Click the link to see it.

This strikes me as interesting because this person has never commented before. It was a simple comment, and it’s not to say that a new viewer couldn’t have stopped by and been randomly excited about the game. I go to their web domain, which has an interesting unique name, and see that they have a new blog with a total of three posts. The newest two are about Montreal Hockey. The oldest one, and the first one in the blog, is a random post about GTA4. It has no links in it but two pieces of distinct information: The multiplayer is going to be cool, and the date the game is going to come out. It even digs at Xbox Live, saying they better have their shit together when the game launchers.

My hypothesis as an Internet Scientist is that this person is in fact a viral marketing person seeding blogs that are posting about GTA4 with comments that link back to that blog. In addition to this, people searching for random things like Montreal Hockey Riots will come to this stub of a blog and see this post about GTA4, and effectively have their awareness increased. It also has the added effect of just generally increasing search engine awareness.

I will subscribe to their blog and see if they make any other posts. If this marketing company was smart, it would make more posts, and also do the cliche obligatory stuff like “HI THIS IS MY FIRST BLOG HAHA I WILL BE POSTING A LOT ABOUT A SPECIFIC THING OR WHATEVER that most bloggers do.” But a cool concept at least, good on them for being sneaky but I SEE THROUGH YOUR INTERNET!

Don’t believe everything that you breathe.

Edit: Thinking about it, this literally cost them 10$ for the domain, and whatever wage they pay the person who has to set it up, which can be done by anyone with a moderate amount of internet ability. I have a one-click install setup on my webhost for wordpress, so even that’s easy to do. Cheap and easy, like moms.