The Source has just found this little blooper which suggests that Novell has ghostwriters. We captured more evidence of this before, about 2 years ago. Some of the executives of Novell either do not write their posts or do not write them alone (or use the assistance of technical people to run their blogs, by proxy so to speak). Bill Gates' latest PR charades on the Web are pretty much the same. It's all marketing and part of the branding of "Bill Gates", whose crimes the PR effort is trying to erase with the help of irresponsible reporters. ⬆
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Yuhong Bao
2010-02-08 05:50:26
Ghostwriting is indeed controversial and AFRIK far from a new topic. If you do a Google search on "ghostwritten blogs", you can find a lot of articles about it.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-08 13:08:34
Sometimes they just have PAs.
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-19 02:49:02
From TFA:
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=1865
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=1864
First link is now broken and second one now works, so Novell execs wasn't ghostwriting.
Garrett was the first person to face sanctions (like muting) in our IRC channels because of his abuse; worse yet, he hijacked other people's names and then locked them out of their own accounts
People creating their own platforms means progress, whereas centralisation (like moving from blogs to social control media) is the opposite of progress
If it was googlebot, it would be possible to argue that you'd at least then get referral traffic from Google Search. With LLMs, all you get is plagiarised.
If people are willing to tolerate standard declines and enshittification (nowadays sold as "pivot to AI" or "replaced by AI" or "AI layoffs") they will pay for it some other way
Summary: New evidence of ghostwriters in Novell's own Web site
Comments
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-08 05:50:26
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-08 13:08:34
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-19 02:49:02