__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 05 February 2007 15:15 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Bloggers' choice: Free agents, or infomercials?
>>
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>>| Microsoft's publicity ploy highlighted the growing influence of
>>| blogs (as well as other forms of digital self-expression, like
>>| audio podcasts and video clips), and a choice now facing
>>| bloggers: Do they intend to be a trusted source of insight
>>| and information for their readers, or merely the Internet's
>>| version of an infomercial?
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/16621026.htm
>>
>> Is this Advertising Agency Hiring Comment Spammers?
>>
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>>| So we've got a viral marketing campaign that is based around
>>| blogs and message boards - where applicants need to be able to
>>| track where comments have been left...
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/03/is-this-advertising-agency-hiring-comment-spammers
>>
>
> We've had so many of those characters here. I've often speculated that
> they start in cola for initial on-line training, before graduating onto
> perhaps more influential, but probably less informed destinations, such
> as blogs, webchats and so on.
PR puppets can be effective in all sorts of roles. See the following:
Fighting Claims That Open Source Is Insecure?
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| Lately there has been a HUGE push by Certified Microsoft
| Professionals and their companies to call clients and warn
| them of the dangers of open source. This week I received calls
| from 4 different customers that they were warned that they are
| dangerously insecure because they run Open Source Operating
| systems or Software because 'anyone can read the code and hack
| you with ease' they are being told. Other colleagues in the area
| also have noticed this about 3 Microsoft Partners or so they claim
| have been going out of their way to strike fear of OSS in
| companies that respond with 'yes we use Open source or Linux'
| when the sales call comes in.
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/0413212&from=rss
To Microsoft, you see, it's a losing battle. They try to buy time. They have
actual manual and advise on how to fight Linux. I posted one such item this
afternoon. Let me find it...
Winning the Linux Wars
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| Linux Killers
|
| Addressing cost and security are just two of the weapons partners can
| use to combat Linux. Other tactics include:
|
| Raising the caution flag...
|
| Playing the R&D card....
|
| Going head to head....
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http://mcpmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=539
It's like training an army of anti-Linux borgs and then unleashing them onto
forums and businesses. And you know what they say... it's your patriotic
duty. Like going to Iraq to kill some 'bad guys' or simply making a buck by
serving uncle Sam.
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