While I have only met James Joyner of Outside the Beltway fame once, we keep in touch a little bit.  I have always admired his business and blogging acumen. Well, it is James’ 6-year blogiversary, and he writes, via Ryerson Review of Journalism Blog:

The blogging landscape has changed markedly in the intervening period, with many of the top blogs of early 2003 long gone and quite a few relative newcomers having taken over the top rungs. Relatively few of those who started when Steven and I did are still at it.

Political blogging has gone from an almost entirely amateur niche enterprise into something much more similar to the mainstream press, a process that has been both good and bad….

Because there are so many voices now, though, and many of the best have been acquired by major media outlets and think tanks, there’s a certain Establishment feel to the blogosphere that didn’t exist years ago. The rise of RSS readers and aggregators like Memeorandum mean that fewer of us are using our blogrolls or just keeping a log of interesting things we’re finding on the Web; instead, we’re much more apt to write about what everyone else is writing about.

My girlfriend circa 1998-2001 was a little witchy.  No, witchy is not a placeholder for a word that might insult women — she was and is lovely — she was a little bit of a witch, including Tarot and all of that good stuff.

One thing I love about her is that she honored everything with rites, rituals, and ceremonies, including the clearing, cleaning, and blessing of our home.  One of the things we did to clear the apartment was by burning white sage.

Anyway, my friend Sara sent me along an article on New York Daily News called The Clearings: Space healers use the spirit real to cleanse apartments.  Here’s her note:

What the article says about clearing spaces is true.  I don’t have the same ways as Sandra but I’ve cleared a space before with Carolyn and it’s been remarkably lighter afterward inside.  We cleared a studio/performance center in Soho before a concert once and even people who had no idea that we had been there early or that we are sensitive to energy remarked that the space felt better than it had the night before at rehearsal.

Check it out and give it a read and consider honoring your home and your space with a little healing of your space to help make it your own.

What this required was buying a white sage wand — often called a smudge stick — and lighting it up like you would a punk, let it catch fire a little bit, and then blow it out until it starts emitting a trail of smoke. Walk the wand through all of the rooms of your house or apartment . . . and I think that’s about it. You’re clear, as far as I can tell.  I also think it is pretty important to do this more than once — make a habit of it. It doesn’t smell bad at all, that’s for sure.  Good luck!

In an effort to really get to know the folks who are “in my space” and in the space of my firm, Abraham Harrison, I downloaded the AdAge Power 150 OPML and hacked it into a spreadsheet.  Then, I had my team look up the names and emails behind the 781 blogs of the Power 150. Then, I reached out to all of them, looking to see if we could maybe do something together, may be get to know each other a little bit better. I offered the list I collected for free and offered to help put together some sort of community.  Well, who knows if these things ever work or not; however, we at Abraham Harrison LLC have had a lot of practice at reaching out to bloggers via email on behalf of our clients and earning hundreds of supportive and awesome “earned media” blog posts.  Jon Burg’s Future Vision agrees in his article The difficult art of cold pitching – Chris Abraham’s pitch to the AdAge Power 150.  Thanks, man — I really appreciate the kudos!

the difficult art of cold pitching – Chris Abraham’s pitch to the AdAge Power 150

Call it ePR, blogger outreach/relationship management, networking, social media activation or social marketing…  at it’s heart, this is the practice of speaking with the community;  enlisting bloggers and the community at large, to speak about your efforts and on behalf of your brand.

• If you have a relationship with a blogger, you can leverage this relationship to drive your brand/client.
• If you do not yet have a relationship, you have to start building one.
• If you need something done today, and don’t have a relationship, you need to resort to the daunting cold pitch: pitching your product or service without any prior interaction.
  

Chris Abraham, a noted blogger and popular twitterer, recently sent out a private email message to many of the bloggers on the Ad Age Power 150 list, asking them to register their contact information.

His note was personal, personable and extremely well written.  It felt like he was really speaking to me.  No, he didn’t mention any of my previous posts.  And yes, there is a strong likelihood that this letter was a form letter.  Nevertheless, this letter feels somewhat warm, an incredible accomplishment for a cold pitch.

The Pitch

Hi there Jon

I wanted to reach out to you since you’re a current fellow member of the AdAge Power 150 with Future Visions. Please excuse the form email but there are over 780 current Power 150 members. I am popping you this note for two reasons: first, I would like your help to do something with this list; second, I just want to update you as to what I am up to.

To create this list, I collected the OPML file free off of the Power 150 page on Adage and expanded it into a list with names and emails. I would love to share the list with you so please pop me an email if you would like a copy. I was hoping we might figure out a way to keep in better touch as a group of marketing, PR, and advertising bloggers. Please shoot me any ideas you have. I was thinking we could create a community group to share news, ideas, and opportunities to work together. On that note, I am the president and COO of Abraham Harrison LLC, a firm specializing in social media PR, blogger outreach, online engagement, and online reputation management. I would love to schedule a call so that we can explore possibilities to collaborate.

On a personal note, I have started blogging for AdAge and have had so much fun with that that I am looking to find as many opportunities to blog as I can. Please let me know if you know of anything or if you would like me to guest blog. Also, if you’re in the DC area I would love to get together. To be honest, I would love to meet you the next time I am in your neck of the woods.

Thanks so much and I appreciate your time and attention.  I wish you a very fine 2009 with much luck and success.

Cheers,

Chris
<note: Lots of contact information was provided, but I have deleted it out of concern for Chris’ privacy>

So what do we think?  Is this a cold pitch done right? 

Note: After reading this letter, I’m still unsure of what will be done with my contact information.  Is this being gathered as a closed list/community for AdAge?  Is this a contact list for his firm?  Will my contact information be shared with anyone outside of this community?

• PodCasting Basics: What I Learned from Participating in PodCampOhio
• A Day at Camp….
• PodCampOhio – Daniel Johnson Jr. – Managing Your Online Identities
• Missing PodCampOhio Today :(
• Places to Track Podcamp Ohio This Weekend
• Introduction to Pod Camp…
• Podcamp Ohio 2008 recap
• Podcamp Ohio
• I have HOW MANY Logins?
• PodCamp Ohio Today!
• ABC Akron Bloggers Community Share Blog Marketing Tips
• PodCamp – Ohio!
• I’m Going to Podcamp Ohio
• PodCasting Basics: What I Learned from Participating in PodCampOhio
• PodCampOhio – Daniel Johnson Jr. – Managing Your Online Identities
• PodCampOhio: The Preparation
• Post PodCamp Brunch Today
• PodCampOhio Organizers Distributing the Door Prizes
• Managing Multiple Online Identities (Podcamp Ohio)
• Podcamp Ohio

There were just some of the blog mentions I have found so far about PodCampOhio  — I will try to look around a little bit more and I will post again when I find more stuff.

I have been trying to record some of the sessions at PodCampOhio but since my lovely Nokia N95 8GB isn’t working with 3G (thanks, AT&T 3G for breaking on me), I have been doing my best using Qik with EDGE, which sucks.  The good news is that I was able to record quite a little bit of Jennifer Laycock‘s session on how to get your podcast to go viral and how to do online promotion and blogger outreach.  Jennifer is a guru and an expert and I am damned glad to know her!  The session below was called “Orchestrating a Viral Explosion.”

Everyone wants the benefits of a viral campaign, but few people really understand how to put the pieces together to create the best chance for success. Find out the most common mistakes companies make when aiming to go viral and how a little bit of brainstorming can set you up for success. Jennifer Laycock will walk you through the actual brainstorming process she uses with clients to help you gather information needed to put things together. She’ll also help you learn to identify “key influencers” within your industry and will offer concrete tips on the best way to approach them with your campaign.

Hello. This is the Life Changing Box. A box that holds the potential to change things for the better. A game that has the potential to give out some really cool stuff. What does the box hold for you? Click to find out. Play the Life Changing Box! Prizes include 52″ flat screen televisions, exclusive tickets to sporting events, international trips, home theater systems — 20 prizes in all — with values ranging from $400 to $14,000. There are two of everything so everyone who wins a prize wins its twin for the person who invited him or her.

What is this “Life Changing Box” you speak of?

Life Changing Box is a game where you win big fancy prizes.

How do I win a big fancy prize?

First, install the Life Changing Box game. Then touch one (or all) of the Life Changing Boxes to get in the game.

Then what?

Then you wait. YES, you wait and you watch. This game is based on timed rounds where a Box either opens and gives it’s holder a prize or it randomly jumps to someone else. If you are one of the people who touched the Box, then this person could be you.

Then do I win a prize?!

You might! But you’ve got to be on the ball, or more correctly you’ve got to be on the Box. If at the end a round the box hasn’t opened for you, it’s outta there and on to someone else.

I want a prize!! Do I keep touching?

You are clever! That is exactly what you do! After each round the game resets and you have to touch again so the box knows to jump to you.

Can I cheat?

A little bit. If you invite a friend to play and they win, you win the exact same prize!

What!?!?

You heard right. You don’t even have to win to get a prize. If the friend you invited wins YOU ALSO WIN THE EXACT SAME PRIZE!! Invite as many friends as you like, every time they win you win.

This game is awesome!

Yes it is.

Sooner or later these Boxes are going to open and if I keep touching I’m going to get the Box and the prize!

That’s the spirit! Now let’s play

I received an email from Justin Kirby asking me to comment on the ten predictions that he made about the future of connected marketing back in 2005. First, amazing predictions; secondly, I think I wrote a book of my own. Justin’s predictions and my comments for your consideration below…

10 predictions for the future of connected marketing (2005):

1. Connected marketing will become more strategic, with the focus shifting from promotion (creating remarkable campaigns) to innovation (creating remarkable products).

Justin, you’re still so far ahead of the market. Although the early-adopters are for sure becoming more strategic, I would say that lots of people still have yet to engage the blogosphere in ways that are any more innovative than simple Internet advertising. The problem is in the metrics. Clients don’t generally understand that WOM and buzz marketing is a) marketing and not advertising and b) in many ways, a little bit of intelligence and PR as well. So, don’t forget that the market still isn’t there yet. The true power of online brand promotion, messaging, seeing, follow-up, and blogger engagement still is very poorly understood.

2. ROI metrics will be mandatory for viral, buzz and word of mouth campaigns. ‘Advocacy rates’ and ‘sales uplift’ will become important parts of ROI metrics, displacing traditional measures such as campaign reach.

Yes! Like I just said before… I would say that lots of people still have yet to engage the blogosphere in ways that are any more innovative than simple Internet advertising. The problem is in the metrics. Clients don’t generally understand that WOM and buzz marketing is a) marketing and not advertising and b) in many ways, a little bit of intelligence and PR as well. So, don’t forget that the market still isn’t there yet. The true power of online brand promotion, messaging, seeing, follow-up, and blogger engagement still is very poorly understood.

And so expectations are still based on advertising. Advertising is almost completely ephemeral. Lots of hits and traffic when the campaign is running, but the moment the ad campaign ends, the traffic dries up.

Online buzz marketing sticks. It is highly influential with regards to search, Google PageRank, findability, and engaging more fully with the global conversation — the “naked conversations” — into the Internet blogosphere — the “passion chamber.”

So, what kind of metrics are associated with that? How do I as a professional online brand promoter and online advocate prove to the client that my mad ninja skills, my understanding of online conversation, the nature of virtual community and social network, and all of the associated protocol, offer much more ROI than general and copious traffic? I still have not figured out the magic incantation.

3. Word of mouth tracking will become a key metric in brand tracking market research.

That is for sure. That is the Holy Grail. I know that TruCast by Visible Technologies has unlocked the door, but then again, I am a sales rep for them. I know BuzzLogic is on its way and several others, too. TruCast might just have it all figured out. I think that advertisers on Technorati get an amazing media report and advertising intelligence like you wouldn’t believe.

4. Buzz, viral and word of mouth marketing will be merged into the wider marketing mix, with online viral marketing adopted and integrated within advertising, word of mouth within promotions and buzz within PR.

I think that it is very important not to assume that the same people who can do advertising, marketing, and PR are the same people who CAN — or have the cred — to engage online and do brand ambassadorship and really interact with the community. Edelman has made a massive mess of things because they treat the blogosphere like some sort of spam list. Buzz is all about engagement, about buy-in, about cred, and about “belonging.”

And so I don’t recommend “adding” online WOM and Buzz marketing into the mix UNLESS there is a real attempt to either create another practice peopled with true experts in the field OR doing what Edelman Public Affairs did with mixed success, which is to day to create a freestanding special ops team, the Online Advocacy team in Edelman Public Affairs’ case, and give them VETO power on the dumb old media schemes that the rest of the firm comes up with — or the creativity to be able to “convert” the old media plan to a new media plan that will actually take purchase and effect change and potentially go pandemic, which is the goal of buzz marketing in the first place.

5. Managing and avoiding negative word of mouth, online and offline, will be an increasingly important area in connected marketing.

Yes. And blowback looks completely different — and works differently — online and when done virally that it does in the “real world” — online, things can go dormant and easily pop back up again. It is like waging a war on a forest fire. Sometimes the ground catches fire and one needs to just let the first burn itself out over time.

And here is what I say about this:

“Blog Messaging and Counter-Messaging

Blog search engines such as Technorati, Feedster, and BlogPulse only care about the last word. If you can reply to a negative, hurtful brand hit, then you can dominate the conversation and win the debate in most cases.

Google cares about everything, but the latest word isn’t always indexed yet. In the world of Google, the better indexed site always wins. Maximize your knowledge about SEO and Google Sitemaps if you want to compete here.

You can’t control online conversation unless you participate. To quote Sernovitz, “you’ll never be able to control the blogosphere conversation. Don’t even try. You’ll never be able to manage your blog coverage like you manage the press. Don’t even try. But what you can do is participate, earn respect, and tell your story. Jump in, join the conversation, and be a part of it.” The only way to get indexed by Google or to show up on Technorati, Feedster, and BlogPulse is to be an online opinion leader who has a site that has made it out of Technorati, Feedster, BlogPulse, Yahoo!, MSN, and Google’s sandbox, and has a SEO and a Blog Search Engine strategy.

You have to initiate membership, become part of the conversation, build street cred, have an SEO and blog strategy, and become a respected online opinion leader before something goes awry. It is important that you begin establishing yourself as soon as you begin building your company. Visibility and influence online takes time, so it’s best to start building early, so that when your product or service is ready for launch, you won’t have to wait another six months to become visible.”

And at the end of that day, just coming out and saying that you messed up is the best bet. The better bet is to invest in online communities and your online reputation way before anything ever goes wrong.

And any time someone tries to argue their point as opposed to just tastefully and honestly throwing themselves at the mercy of the court is the moment when you start wrestling with the tar baby…

Never make a comment on someone else’s blog unless you’re willing to solve the problem or to say you’re sorry.

I give away all of my tricks here:

http://www.cabraham.com/ideas

And here:

http://www.chrisabraham.com/our-insights

Ha!

6. Online branded entertainment (advertainment, advergaming, alternate reality games) will be used more as key brand touch-points for entertainment brands.

Yes. But not as a bullshit dog and pony show. It needs to be meaningful. If you don’t have buy in from the masters of each of these universes, you’re merely spamming unless you really have a most excellent thing: an exclusive or a powerful gift… here’s my words from somewhere else:

http://www.chrisabraham.com/our-insights/come-bearing-gifts

“Always Bring Something to the Party

Why should the online conversation change because of you? Why should online communities care about what you have to offer? Much the same way that before you attend a party, you should purchase a bottle of wine to present as a gift to the host, especially if you heard about the party from your friend and the host doesn’t know you. In that case, maybe a nice bottle of scotch might be more appropriate. All online communities are real families, real parties, and real communities. People know each other. If you’re going to be showing up uninvited, you had better be charming, friendly, cool – and bearing gifts.”

So, yes. But when it comes to online engagement, there is a lot of difference between the kind of block party that the neighborhood or township sponsors for themselves and the fake gatherings that are manufactured for the visiting dignitary. Nobody every likes having to show up for a false and inauthentic gathering in order to show the president, the mayor, or the governor what good little citizens you are — in fact the blowback of that sort of gathering done badly can result in quite the opposite effect: instead of the celebrity of politician actually garnering votes or support, a gathering like that without the full buy in of the community can result in a counter-campaign that can — through the power of numbers and the passion of the passion chamber and the Internet — result in a swift and rude ousting.

In this illustration, inauthenticity and lack of true engagement — and a missing gift or a wrong gift or an inappropriate gift — can easily result in the worst possible scenario imaginable.

The online buzz marketing equivalent of Dukakis in the tank with a funny helmet.

Let me use video game engagement as an example. In order to engage a video game blogosphere or a video game community, I had better either be able to rap about what’s going on in the gamer world OR I had better be giving away games and Xboxes. Not selling to the main influencers but gifting these people. What Edelman did with Microsoft in engaging bloggers by sending them Vista-optimized laptops and PCs was brilliant. The perfect way to do things in this space. Where they came up short was in their transparency (or lack thereof). Their strategy was sound but they handled it as though they were doing something sneaky — like they were being thieves in the night.

Marketing, PR, and advertising really needs to leave this behind. This feeling like they’re getting away with something. That they’re delivering an awful-tasting medicine with a spoon full of sugar.

More traditional and old-fashioned methods of promotion seem to be alive and well. Where the consumer and the producer and both in on the joke. As I wrote here about the Purina One campaign:

http://www.chrisabraham.com/2006/04/purina_one_is_r.html

“Purina ONE is Role Model for Word-Of-Mouth Marketing

I listen to both the Glen Beck Program and Jack Diamond Morning Show and one thing they both have in common is that both Jack and Glen spontaneously wax poetic about their dogs.

Then, after a while of spinning a warm, charming, yarn, they reveal that it wasn’t until Purina One that their really stopped shedding, started acting like a puppy again, started having a glow, and began to have clear and shiny doggie eyes!

It is such a fantastic testimony by each men and I love listening to each of the respective emotional break in their respective radio announcer’s voice when they offer this heart felt Purina One testimonial. And then, we find out that we don’t have to take their word for it, we can call 888-606-BARK for a free 6.5 pound bag of Purina One Natural Blends dog food.

Do I feel betrayed? Used? No! I love it.

There is a sweet old world charm as though I were suddenly thrust into the Jack Benny Program. There is a lightness of being in their respective stories that don’t require me to care about the advertising or care about the salesmanship, it is the fact that these men are really likeable and we trust them and listen to them and hey, you have to pay the bills and we would rather enjoy their charm and warmth (and they do own dogs, after all — it isn’t a lie!) than the awful commercial breaks.

We hate these commercial breaks. We would rather our sweet DJ, our sweet host, hock the free 6.5 pound bag of Purina One Natural Blends dog food than leave it to someone we don’t know.

I would love to know who is handling the campaign but if you are within the sound of my blog, call me and offer me a job. I will take it!”

See. Really, these days with all the fisking and all of the Internet Forensics techniques available, http://www.cabraham.com/ideas/internet-forensics , there is little or no way to “get away with” anything.

Why is there so much “self loathing,” deceit, NLP, and deep psychology going into these campaigns… people are tired of being tricked into a first kiss… they really would be so happy and surprised if PR, marketing, and advertising would stop trying to get them drunk and take advantage and be such the opportunist. What they want is dinner, some chocolate, flowers, and then a brave lean in and an honest to goodness first kiss!

PR, Advertising, and Marketing: you need to be a man!

7. Techniques developed in connected marketing initiatives will be adopted for change management and internal communication.

Lots of PR firms are realizing that hearts and minds campaigns are very powerful when it comes to marketing and engaging externally, but at the end of the day, too many firms forget the war at home. Teaching companies to stop blaming their employees (blaming the victim) for unhappiness at work (that is probably not the employee’s fault) will become more and more essential as more and more firms fight for fewer and fewer good employees. The moment the balance of power tips more to the employee’s side, the better companies will have to become at constantly winning buy-in, meeting the needs, and seducing not just prospective hires but also renewing the vows you have with your current staff. Especially in the age of the blog where one severely pissed employee can thoroughly ruin your company’s reputation online for at least the next six months, especially if you’re looking for investors or are interested in being acquired.

8. Techniques developed in viral, buzz and word of mouth will be increasingly adopted in CRM programs as both retention and acquisition (turning buyers into advocates) tools.

Yes! TruCast by Visible Technologies is the perfect example. More and more, private equity firms and hedge funds are making a lot of their decision based not only on the books and on numbers but also on brand reputation… and the best mirror of that general good faith — the pulse, if you will — is the market that is conversation, with a tip of the hat to the Cluetrain Manifesto.

9. Cell phones will develop rapidly as an important medium for spreading connected marketing promotions, such as mobile invitations, SMS barcode discounts, etc.

Yes. And it doesn’t look the way you foresaw it, either. The experience has become very rich, with Google Maps and GPS tracking and ubiquitous camera phones and better access to streaming video. All of my friends text message now. Last year, I was the only one of many of them. I would text and they would either call me to talk or they would call me to tell me that that SMS cost them 50-cents.

10. Marketers will eventually be able to locate influencers by zip/post code, by which point they will be all chasing the same chosen few… Prepare for another paradigm shift in marketing?

No. Place, space, and zip code is backwards-ass. People, as they find their true BoF (birds of a feather) will be less connected to nation state or zip code. These “zips” will actually be virtual.

http://www.cabraham.com/ideas/internet-is-huge

“The Internet is Vastly Hugely Mind-Bogglingly Big

To paraphrase The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to the Internet.”

Learning and researching fast, with connections and conversations with the people on the inside, that is the way to understand the part of the internet that is relevant to your work today. We get that knowledge to you – from the brilliant people who are growing the internet, to your brilliant people who will make it work for you.

Some people call it business intelligence. We call it the give and take of real relationships.”

And:

http://www.cabraham.com/ideas/virtual-online-communities

“Online Communities are Not Virtual

Do you think that people who play Second Life, World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, MMOGs, and MMORPGs are freaks? Do you consider message boards, forums, virtual realities, and virtual communities to be a waste of time, populated by losers?

If so, then you need to leave online advocacy, new media marketing, online brand promotion, online word of mouth marketing, online outreach, blogger relations, and brand ambassadorship to someone who has lived, loved, and connected to people in real ways online. And continues to do so. Abraham PR respects online community; Abraham PR respects the online life.

There is a general misunderstanding that online virtual communities are escapist. Many of our clients believe that Second Life (SL), World of Warcraft (WoW), and even Role Playing Games (RPGs) are places wherein geeks, freaks, losers, and loners go to escape their desperate, pathetic, lives. On the contrary!

So-called virtual communities are entirely real and populated with real people with real hopes and real passions. The connections, tribes, relationships, and families that people make online are long-term, real, and intense.

In much the same way that the smart kid may not find people who understand (or even like) him in high school, only to find people just like him — who really “get him” — upon arriving at College; the members of virtual online communities often look for and find like-minded people online.

Online, you can find a large population of like-minded birds-of-a-feather no matter how niche your interest, no matter how counter-culture your fetish.

The Internet can be a safe place for people to explore themselves. The Internet can allow access to people who are shy, easily intimidated, overwhelmed, or are just “trying out” different personalities, experiences, relationships, and roles before committing.

The Internet allows its denizens to “try before you buy.”

That said, they are real people. Their connections online are real. Their roles — even fantastic or bizarre — are true and impenetrable and must be respected.

People are going online to discover people who are exactly like them, called birds of a feather, rather than merely suffering those friends and family who may no longer be a lifestyle choice but a life obligation. People are not escaping, they’re exploring, they’re mapping, and they’re defining. Most of them end up truly blooming in this online world.

Do not engage online if you are unable to respect the full import and depth of culture, experience, and relationship that already exists — and is forever becoming deeper and more formalized.

If you do not learn to love, respect, appreciate virtual online communities as real homes to real people, as real as the village square, the parish hall, the Paris Tabac, or the alumni group then you’re underestimating the passion, loyalty, and deep personal relationship found there.

This lack of understanding and appreciation will almost always result in a tragic faux pas the likes of which may result in brand suicide, the likes of which can be easily avoided if you had just understood that the operative word of Virtual Online Community is community. And community, in this case, is synonymous with family.”

Until recently, Don’t Save the Whales was number one for having the most comments. Now, Nicole Richie is Just Not Eating has taken the prize with comments like, “k well i think all of u r jellous that she has a body like that.”

And there is much more. Take some time and read all of them, and you will learn not a little bit.

“YOOOOO !!!! THIS GURL HAVE ANYTHING ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AND SHE AIN’T THANKFUL ABOUT IT !!! NICOLE IS JUST STUPID. NOW SHE LOOKS LIKE A FREAKING STICK AND REALLY UGLY ! EWWWW ! NOW SHE AIN’T GOT NO BODY !”

“hmm.. i dunno how she does it you hav to eat well i think she is a bit to skinny but if that makes her happier but not to sick then that should be fine”

“I think she looks hot hot hot. MUCH better than before. I would love to look like her”

“Okkkk Wht the hell she looks ill but im jelaous i would love to look like her who wouldn’t deep down BUT how must she fell freekin awfull no dounbt but PARIS HILTON is STUNNINGLY HOT ! come on guys who can ever be HOTTER than Paris Hilton To me she is perfect but she always did have an advantage cos of her height , 5ft 10 Nicole’s only 5ft 3 x Love Jenna x”

“I kan anderstand Nichole just now,becouse I`m selv is sik write now I have anorexia.. Nichole if you hear mee: Dont do like this!Its wery dangers..I selv not eating 4month,and i kant do somthing,,we living not for eating,we eating for living!Just remember this gordgeos…
Ypu look so sexy before and now,you are a pine.. And its not look so nice,i promice you.. Bye gordgeous.You are fabelous for me,if you are pin smal,or not!You are just you are!You dont nid not eating,just becouse people kom to love you.. Love Anorexi girl Sanina from Sweden!”

“i fink u should stop taking the piss outta nicole richie she’s a lovely girl bright bubbly a laugh yea she looks unhealthy u lil pea minded freaks might not of heard of it but its called anorexia or bulimia (an eating disorder) they cant help the way they look and feel about themselves. My mom has an eating disorder i’m 13 and i have 2 take care of her making sure she eats and takes her tablets so think b4 u dis cuz it can hurt bad !”

“k well i think all of u r jellous that she has a body like that.. like who gives a shit its her body let hwe do wut she wantz with it! if she happy with her new look then leave her the hell alone! i think shes gorgeous ne way she looks.. shes nicole richie when does she not look good!? think bout it haha! luvvvvvz it ;) britney*”

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