Major Advertisers Flocking to MZone 2.0

"MZone.  Very Nice!"

Back during the halcyon days of the original MZone (OMZ!  Represent!), when Benny and I were introducing the college football blogosphere to wayward cheerleaders and new terminology such as the Buckstache, we used to get a fair number of requests to advertise on the site.  However, I always turned them down because then I'd actually have to keep this thing going.  And we all saw how well that went for the last 2+ years.

We also got a lot of inquiries about reciprocal linkage with other blogs.  A lot of them were betting sites that I wouldn't visit so I wasn't going to send our readers there.

Since our return with MZone 2.0: The Blog Who Shagged Me, I received one advertising inquiry and the linkage request below that I simply had to share.  Oh man.  Judging from the sentence structure and grammar, either the Nigerian dude who clogs all of our inboxes has started blogging, or Borat is a fan and wants to woo the audience here on the MZone.  Behold...


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Hello Sir/Madam,

While I am searching for the fantasy football related blogs, I viewed your blog

(http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/).

You have lot of updated and upto date information about football events and players.  I have sports blog http://REMOVED.  I will link your blog.

Please give a link in your blog http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/ with the below information.

Title: Fantasy Football
Url: http://REMOVED
Description: REMOVED.COM offers fantasy football information, Football player ratings, football
updates and more.

Expecting positive reply from you.
Thanks
Tom

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Now, while this may come as a shock, I didn't take "Tom" up on this awesome opportunity to get the MZone in front of his obviously massive group of hackers audience and present our readers with the chance of getting a virus put on their computer great fantasy football information when they clicked on "Tom's" link .

But the very offer itself from such a respected blogger such as "Tom" shows that the MZone is back, baby!

Meet "Tom"

Ohio Prisons Join Facebook

As you know, we love to tweak our friends in Ohio as much as possible here on the MZone.  Unfortunately, since we haven't been able to talk much smack about football in a such looooong time, we take what we can get.

Like this beautiful nugget: the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections has started its own Facebook page.

No, seriously, here it is.

According to an ODRC official, the page will be "a useful venue to put out worthwhile information to interested stakeholders."

What in the hell useful prison info is going out to what "interested stakeholders" via Facebook?  Big Tony in cellblock C needs help with Farmville? 

So far there are only two status updates and one of them is the following:

ODRC puts out prison population numbers every Monday, excluding state holidays. On Monday, September 27, 2010, our prison population was 51,154, 37 more inmates than the week prior.

Every Monday they're gonna update the prison population?  It's like the prison equiv of the AP Poll. Unfortunately one can't comment on the page or I was going to congratulate the ODRC about their increased numbers and wish them luck on doing even better next week.  Go Prison! 

According to the news story linked above, one thing that won't be on the page: execution information.

Good idea.  Figuring out how to respond to "Lethal Injection Tuesday -- ODRC invited you" could be awkward.

Also, inmates will not be able to post on the wall.  There's a relief.  I have a hard enough time deciding if I should accept the friend request of the girl I don't remember from 8th grade.  Don't want to piss off the guy doing 8 to 10.

Oh, and the ODRC official said that, while a decision hasn't been made yet, they're also considering using Twitter.

I can see it now...

@ODRC Holy shit! Riot in excr yard.  Eyes burning from tear gas. Hey, Ashton Kutcher now following me.  Cool!  #Shank #lockdown #cracking heads