My Inbox: Let Me Show You It

13 February 2008 in Fun Stuff

So I got an email from WetPaint today. It’s a typical website newsletter, but it starts with an appeal to my ego:

I got to the end of the second paragraph and had to do a double take:

Yeah, lemme get right on that. Before one of those other Damian Bariexcas ganks it on me.

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Kate Olson
13 February 2008 at 11:33 pm

Well, if nothing else, their email to YOU inspired ME to create a wiki at wetpaint You’re a good marketer, LOL!
Damian
13 February 2008 at 11:40 pm

D’oh! If I was shilling for anybody in this post, it was Firedoodle! A failure is me.
Robert Jones
14 February 2008 at 4:04 am

Hilarious! Thanks for brightening up my Thursday morning
Kate Olson
14 February 2008 at 10:58 am

Update – I don’t like the wetpaint wiki – TONS and tons of ads, not cool for what I’m doing with it. I did notice firedoodle, but can’t take advantage of on my school computer
JackieB
14 February 2008 at 6:54 pm

I’m not sure you have to worry about the domain being taken. Thanks for the FireDoodle tip though!
Pam Carr
18 February 2008 at 1:09 pm

Thanks for the fireDoodle tip.

Update – You can request an ad-free wiki from wetpaint. You just need to email them a request as an educator. When I did this it was pretty quick.

I like it becuase you can add a discussion thread to each of your pages. I find that very useful and I also think the “look” of it is a bit more web page and a bit less wiki.

What I hate about it – it doesn’t always play nice with IE and that is all we are allowed to have on our school computers (sniff, sniff).