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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 ...

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...

What to do when you go viral...

I think I'm supposed to have a picture taken of me getting out of a car without any underwear on, or maybe be in a movie with one of the people from Survivor, but my ad on kijiji has gone CA-RAZY. If you type "snowblower" into facebook, over 25,000 people have linked to my ad. Let me put that into perspective: if everyone in my hometown had linked to my ad, they'd have to recruit another 20,000 from neighbouring communities to finish off. And as of 9:44 PM, I've got 129,462 views on the ad. To put that into perspective, that's more people than were reported for the metropolitan area that I live in (2006). I've done an interview on CBC Radio (with another one possibly tomorrow for TV), an interview with www.yousuckatkijiji.com (which was an unexpected delight), a short interview with the local paper (that may or may not see print), and am lined up to do another radio spot in the morning and two TV spots in the afternoon. I feel like I should use t...

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April 13, 2009

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