This post is going to seem sort of insufferably inside blog baseball, but there’s no way to avoid that now I’ve already written the subject line out. Essentially over the last few months a number of Vancouver based bloggers, including myself, have suddenly started blogging from new Nokia cellular telephones.

A marketing company called Matchstick [ms ^[1]] approached a number of bloggers, and told them to approach their blogging friends. Ryan Cousineau [rc ^[2]] let all of the Metrobloggers know about that the company was giving out new Nokia 6682 [nok ^[3]] phones A lot of Metrobloggers have gotten them, and a number of other bloggers such as Darren Barefoot [db ^[4]] were approached but said no and actually complained about the company’s constant spamming of them as have other local bloggers [bmc ^[5]].

I took them up on their offer [jks ^[6]] and I actually echo the line taken by fellow Metroblogger Travis when he says that we should all “chill out” [uv ^[7]]. If spam comanpies only sent me three emails then I’d be happy, in reality I get well over 40 spam a day at any one of my public email addresses. Having been in the cellular industry for over ten years, and a tech journalist for the last four I can’t imagine why anyone would complain about being asked to use a and very good phone. It’s a word of mouth campaign and a way to get people other than the usual suspects [ign ^[8]] talking about a phone and the potentials of mobile blogging.

That sometimes their representatives are a tad overzelous and several have contacted the same bloggers, not knowing that they’d already been contacted, then that’s unfortunate but hardly a war crime. My interaction with them so far has been very pleasant, and after about twenty minutes answering questions on the phone I got the cell in the mail a week later. It’s also given me the next topic for my weekly article at eVent! magazine [evm ^[9]].