<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/778c8119-65c5-437f-b01e-4257bf657f51/309FAA66-F952-490B-A9B5-180813D2B7B8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/" href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/" style="font-size: 11px;">pogue.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><H2 class="entry-title">Are You Nice or Am I Famous?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/img/4560FBEB-D1D9-4AC1-BCD5-F5A874695A8D" alt="Pogue's Posts - The Latest in Technology From David Pogue" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><P>I had an interesting exchange on Twitter the other day. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><P>Me: During my CA round-trip, American did 3 nice things (ex: free rebook for missed flight). Did I get lucky 3 times, or is AA always like this? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><P>Skyvan: They know who you are, that’s why you got that treatment. They never do that. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><P>Dandebrito: American: “Hmmm… Pogue has over a million Twitter followers. Should we be extra nice or give him steerage service?” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/"><P>What my readers are suggesting, of course, is that I’m getting good service because I’m a columnist, and this issue comes up surprisingly often. Whenever I write about a tech-support call that went well, or recount a run-in with an impressive clerk at Best Buy or whatever, there’s always an outpouring of feedback that amounts to: “You just got good service because you’re you.” <SPAN id="more-1549"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/">Well, I don’t know. Viewers of my videos might recognize me (it happens about once a month when I’m out and about); tech fans might know my name. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/are-you-nice-or-am-i-famous/">But those groups are the few,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/309FAA66-F952-490B-A9B5-180813D2B7B8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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