Wow, I realized that Digg was chuck full of Windoze fanboys, but wow.
They still get the fame, they still get the glory, and everyone else is
completely blind about this.
On Dec 29, 11:10 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Astroturfer:http://digg.com/users/rodtrent
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Rod Trent, SMS and SUS expert
> |
> | Rod Trent, manager of myITforum.com and a Microsoft MVP, is an
> | expert on Microsoft Systems Management Server. He has more than
> | 18 years of IT experience ...
> `----
>
> Source:
>
> searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateExpertBio/0,289623,sid1_cid394091,00.html
>
> 2,800+ stories submitted to Digg, mainly ones favouring Microsoft. Microsoft
> may be buying an army of loyalists to intervene with technology news. There
> are at least two other people which systematically defend Micorsoft and
> apologise for everything.
>
> Latest FUD, submitted 4 hours ago:
>
> http://digg.com/gaming_news/Wii_Tops_PS3_XBOX_360_still_wins
>
> Related:
>
> Bribing Bloggers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It's a bribe. Period. You say nice things about us, you get nice
> | things from us. Heck, just say neutral things about us-we'll give
> | you a killer new laptop and we know that you'll be inclined to say
> | better things about us.
> `----
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K...
>
> Microsoft Sent A Free Laptop With Windows Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | I'm not sure how I was selected to be one of the people receiving this
> | (I'm assuming there are others, but I haven't come across any yet).
> | It could be that they are reaching out to bloggers who are Mac users
> | (I switched to a Mac back when OS X came out) or it might just be that
> | people I know who work for Microsoft or other influential bloggers
> | recommended me
> `----
>
> http://laughingsquid.com/microsoft-sent-a-free-laptop-with-windows-vi...
>
> Windows Live OneCare competition
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | How to enter:
> |
> | You have from now until 25th December to post on your own blog about
> | why you'd like Santa to visit you, and then tag it with "Windows Live
> | OneCare Competition". Only posts appearing on this technorati page or
> | that trackback to this post will be considered as entries. From
> | these we'll select 5 winners at random.
> `----
>
> http://liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2006/12/20/windows-live-onecar...
>
> Microsoft Traps and Hunts for Bloggers in India !!
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft has announced the "Microsoft BlogStars" contest, to Hunts
> | for Developer Bloggers in India. After feeling the power and increase of
> | the Bloggers community in India, Microsoft tries to trap and hunt Bloggers
> | in India to buildup the blogging community, for writing blog posts
> | supporting towards Microsoft Technologies.
> `----
>
> http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-blog...
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
> | sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
> | posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
> | the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
> | Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
> | Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
> | and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
> | Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
> | Chairman Bill.
> |
> | These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
> | state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
> | own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
> | being written by dead people.
> |
> | And the astroturf taint continues today.
> |
> | Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
> | to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
> | the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
> | online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
> | of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
> | was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
> | and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
> | liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows wont
> | he operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
> |
> | Mr Dvorak wonders if Microsoft is today using reverse-dirty-tricks
> | to promote the Xbox 360: pay people to create Web sites that slam the
> | gaming computer in order to provoke a barrage of defenders.
> `----
>
> http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Instead of inspiring actual interest in a grassroots fashion, Microsoft
> | has resorted to spreading fake grass, crafting each site to suggest
> | the appearance of something other than the advertisement it is.
> |
> | This is similar to the scam Microsoft pulled with its own imitation of
> | Apple's Switchers ad campaign. Titled "Confessions of a Mac to PC
> | Convert," the ad portrayed a professionally dressed woman complaining
> | about her Mac, but ended up being a canned picture pulled from stock
> | photography and voiced by a professional writer.
> |
> | Similarly, Greenpeace staffers have assigned to post astroturf comments
> | on websites saying "I'm a Mac user and gosh darn it I think that
> | Greenpeace is alright with all their concern about the ecology!" More
> | on that scam later!
> |
> | One would expect a certain level of interest and excitement out of
> | Microsoft's own users, but that isn't really happening. Nearly every
> | Zune site on the web is carefully stepping around the piles of problems
> | to spend a lot of time on Microsoft supplied bullet points, including
> | the "celebration of music," the slightly larger or at least
> | stretched display, and how wireless DRM sharing is such a
> | brilliant idea.
> `----
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Could there be more bad news? Of course! Even Paul Thurrott isn't
> | impressed with the Zune, calling its pricing strategy the "makings of
> | a disaster." Misery! Not only has the Zune suffered a horrific wreck of
> | a product introduction, but Annie Wilkes is at the foot of the bed saying
> | she doesn't approve of how things are going.
> |
> | If your number one fan is sending you hate mail, you have a problem.
> | So what's with all the Zune related web sites carefully repeating the
> | same talking points? It's called astroturfing.
> |
> | Instead of inspiring actual interest in a grassroots fashion, Microsoft
> | has resorted to spreading fake grass, crafting each site to suggestt
> | he appearance of something other than the advertisement it is.
> |
> | This is similar to the scam Microsoft pulled with its own imitation of
> | Apple's Switchers ad campaign. Titled "Confessions of a Mac to PC
> | Convert," the ad portrayed a professionally dressed woman complaining
> | about her Mac, but ended up being a canned picture pulled from stock
> | photography and voiced by a professional writer.
> |
> | Similarly, Greenpeace staffers have assigned to post astroturf comments
> | on websites saying "I'm a Mac user and gosh darn it I think that
> | Greenpeace is alright with all their concern about the ecology!" More
> | on that scam later!
> |
> | One would expect a certain level of interest and excitement out of
> | Microsoft's own users, but that isn't really happening. Nearly every
> | Zune site on the web is carefully stepping around the piles of problems
> | to spend a lot of time on Microsoft supplied bullet points, including
> | the "celebration of music," the slightly larger or at least
> | stretched display, and how wireless DRM sharing is such a
> | brilliant idea.
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>
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/9F60D74A-0E27-4F5F-B88D-8359746...
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