01.23.07
Is Microsoft ‘Correcting’ Blogs on Open XML?
Originally, this observation was merely a comment of mine. Later I decided it was worth pointing out in a new blog item.
Yesterday we mentioned a report about Microsoft’s money incentive for changing Wikipedia. More specifically, Microsoft sought to ‘embelllish’ technical details about OpenXML by contacting a field expert. Only a day later, Boycott Novell received a comment ‘correcting’ information about OpenXML. See this for yourselves. There is precedence here as well, namely promotion of Microsoft products in blog comments:
MSN Is Spamming The Blogosphere
Mr. Youth LLC is a marketing firm and lists MSN as a customer. Their website is here: http://www.mryouth.com/ Their phone number is (212) 779-8700.
I’ve talked to a couple of other bloggers who said they are receiving similar comments on their blogs. This pisses me off because MSN/Mr. Youth should 1) be more upfront about their true identity, and 2) provide a real e-mail address so that I can request they take my blog off their marketing campaign.
anonymous said,
January 23, 2007 at 4:51 pm
It looks like your link is broken now:
http://www.scott-o-rama.com/2006/12/06/msn-is-spamming-the-blogosphere/
It would be great if you guys could dig it up. My google search and attempt at http://www.archive.org failed.
Roy Schestowitz said,
January 23, 2007 at 6:52 pm
You are right. The link has broken since I grabbed the snippet. I have just done some in-site search, which probably confirms that the post was removed.
Let me find a related example…
Microsoft Traps and Hunts for Bloggers in India !!
It is not quite the same thing, but it is similar.