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irene.adler

I honestly think we blew their launch by jumping on this too quick. The LinkedIn ad that started this was gone very quickly. So was the "Company" site for CAH. (That doesn't mean it was flagged by someone else for deletion.)

OK - so this is totally off topic and I don't know if it matters, but...
I know people from Democracy In Action or who have worked with them. They are a technology company that wires up progressive groups across the country. So if you have some land use issue in your community you may hire them to set up an "email your congressperson" campaign. Or click to send a fax, that sort of thing. Like I said before - I don't like to mix politics and ARGs. But in my real life - I'm an actual"agent", really a research analyst that gathers financial analysis and power structure and corporate ownership analysis for the progressive movement. In the corporate world its called Competitive Intelligence - if you google the Strategic and Corporate Intelligence Professionals website it'll make more sense. Although some people derisively call this job corporate espionage, but I assure you its not that. Way more boring and totally not illegal. But Its some ways it's almost exactly like playing an ARG for a living (as in I find internal newsletters or non-published white papers etc often as non-protected PDFs on company websites by link guessing and other stuff.) Almost like a bank AML analyst doing "Know Your Customer" research - its like one big scattered puzzle that usually starts on the web and often ends up in field work (ie the live game.) So I guess that's why I find this all so fascinating. Like it could be an actual recruiting tool. Rather than a movie or game or something commercial like that. Hey progressive Puppet Master! Are you listening? I've been in the progressive research business for 10 years and there's no group you want hire from more than very skilled ARG players. I've actually been telling colleagues that for the last few years...maybe someone finally took it seriously. I mean, this is all just a totally wild theory of mine. But I'm going to slink off and stop over thinking this and just see where the game play leads. And if the off topic pontificating is totally inappropriate and should be moved to the meta section - the mods should totally delete this.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:45 am

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:02 am

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irene.adler

Oh yeah just to be clear, In the first post of this thread I said I was surfing for jobs on LinkedIn when I found the job ad in question - I was actually looking for THAT job from the rabbit hole posting. HA! This game has a whole art imitates life imitates art thing going on for me.

But no I don't like mixing fake ARG life and real life at all but a lot of the reason I play ARGs when work is slow is skill practice new techniques and theories. When I first read about ARGs a couple years ago - I was like awesome! Now I can work for fun too!

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:15 am

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:25 am

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docwho2100 · Unfettered Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 327

Wow - your job sounds awesome... and to go back to topic - they should have anticipated it if they put PR out - I try to stick to the "trail' so to speak, but people have been "ARGing" for so long that you should anticipate certain actions.... -

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:58 pm

irene.adler

Yeah I seriously think that we just started looking and jumped their pregame stuff...a bunch of the sites that were dug up were still all Lorum Ipsum or whatever...

The major curtain pull was probably just a nod to say "yeah, you totally got all rabid on this way faster than we really expected." But the reference to that "old show LOST" was pretty funny. Although they didn't confirm that the masked leader of DWWF is Margaret Cho.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:17 pm

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noobie at play

**Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:20 am

Aillen · Boot Joined: 14 Mar 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Arizona, USA

Re: Agent: America email

**Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:45 am

OwnD · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 144

So I went looking through sequential Zooglio pages and found a few pages that I don't think they want up quite yet. There was a bunch of sort of "background" news, but I stumbled across a few things that looks to be serious plot points...

I think I found the in-game identity of M...

**Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:50 pm

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Up-thread someone (thebruce ?) posted that Democracy in Action and Restore Fairness sites were linked to tracking in the email? These are real organizations, any associated with entertainment stuff. So best disregard them as OOG.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:22 pm

Delta · Guest

Does anyone know if they delayed the launch time? I got on the site in time to watch it count down to zero, but nothing happened. When I refreshed the page, the count started over at 12 hours. I've never played an ARG, but I assumed something would happen on the main site. Was that naive of me?

**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:25 am

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:55 am

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:22 am

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The game is a foot

**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:38 pm

docwho2100 · Unfettered Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 327

Re: The game is a foot

**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:50 pm