That certainly seems a very naive move, especially for someone who, on paper, has a pretty good pedigree in online marketing.

He must realise that it would not be difficult for someone to get this in front of his employers (or indeed make it rank as you suggest).

It seems his strategy is one of hoping that somebody doesn’t decide to go out of their way to highlight it more than we have done.

There is no doubt that this could destroy his career and if this was the legal or medical profession it likely would.

It does raise the question as to whether we as a profession should or should not turn a blind eye.

There is a difference though between having a laugh at the expense of a company and wrecking an individual’s career. Perhaps though we should have thought about that before we started down this road.

In my mind his best chance is to own up and stay squeaky clean going forward. Certainly removing his Twitter account will not help his cause.

Perhaps this page may start to rank for his name on Google though…

“I would consider myself to be ruthless and a stickler for best practice search implementation…nothing excites me more than good work.”

Whose good work?

https://twitter.com/#!/simon_jarrett

I think there are quite a few unanswered questions and certainly we would be interested in hearing from Simon Jarrett Williams (the ex employee who has now moved onto a larger agency).

I still think it would be a lot better if the blog was reinstated in full – including the switched iamges – with a cautionary header appended as to the perils of hotlinking to images hosted elsewhere!

For what it’s worth, I also think tha Attacat were very measured and proportionate in how they treated this incident. I can think of many and varied worse images that could have been used instead of the rather amusing ones that they used )