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Salty Droid and Julian Assange

Bitchin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:31:35 +0000

Similar stories. Julian Assange is the face of Wikileaks who is getting kicked all over the place for daring to bring “secrets” into the light. Salty Droid in the same boat, but for exposing a different bunch of secrets.

This sounds familiar

For Assange, by contrast, a conspiracy is something fairly banal, simply any network of associates who act in concert by hiding their concerted association from outsiders, an authority that proceeds by preventing its activities from being visible enough to provoke counter-reaction. It might be something as dramatic as a loose coalition of conspirators working to start a war with Iraq/n, or it might simply be the banal, everyday deceptions and conspiracies of normal diplomatic procedure

I am a major The Wire fan and appreciated this being mentioned in the same article

Which all reads a lot like this

The Syndicate keeps prices high :: and dissent low. The Syndicate all but eliminates marketplace competition. Individuals or businesses inside of Internet Marketing who act against the interests of The Syndicate risk their financial futures. The Syndicate uses tough :: tasteless :: and intimidating tactics to defend against what it sees as threats to its unrightful domain. Many know about The Syndicate but are afraid to speak for fear of reprisals. Most do not know … but are never the less deeply affected by the cultural tone set by the group.

Both Julian and Jason have their own issues – as we all do – but it’s my firm belief that (using to faux-scientific analogy) for every action there is an equal and OPPOSITE reaction. Try to hide stuff and people will try just as hard to dig it up.*

*Yes I can see the irony of an anonymous blog talking about hiding things

And now back to the lulz.

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My Maserati Does One Eighty Five…

Bitchin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:57:12 +0000

I lost my website so now I can’t …do business.

yo yo! you checking out that top piece of video marketing expertise, Maria Andros

decided to check out this website of hers she was talking about.

videomarketingqueen.com

OOPS!

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Did You REALLY Want To Make Money?

Bitchin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:54:35 +0000

I’m seriously torn here. Y’see there has been a major launch of a product this week that is almost (if it hasn’t already) closed it’s doors. The usual story, tell the story of how it’s too good to be true, offer your money back guarantee, build up all that need and desire and then hit em with a $497 price tag. Sells like hot cakes I bet.

Thing is, you can go to the site help page, get a link directly from there to an email register page, (put in any old bullshit gmail account you care, oh proxy yourself up the wazoo I guess if you are totally paranoid) and go straight to the download page for the entire $497 course.

C’mon internet marketers, get your shit together and at least have someone with half a brain putting your honey pots together. Pay a college kid or something, but stop GIVING YOUR SHIT AWAY because I won’t pay for anything that is that easy to just take. You disrespect me as an internet user and your customer by not even bothering to have a login and password to get your stuff.

Because I am a nice person I won’t link the link here. If you bought **** Blueprint this week…. well you could have had it for nix. Probably still can.

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IMTW – Death By a Thousand Cuts

Bitchin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:10:52 +0000

Internet Marketing This Week pocast is a mostly weekly podcast that covers what interests Ed Dale, Paul Colligan, Michelle McPhearson and Lynn Terry that week. It is an interesting listen just to get to understand their personalities a little more, though a little light on”in depth” type information about internet marketing. Infotainment really.

The latest podcast (#12) has an enormous serving of irony with the chatty pie.

The majority of the podcast covers people complaining about the content of the double-opted-in emails they receive when a large launch is underway. Ed Dale is correct in saying “unsubscribe” to anyone that goes the greed road and floods you with that kind of crap (mind you that will mean MOST of the marketers, even the very best ones you subscribe to will fall to your sword- and GOOD I say).

The biggest peeve was signing up for one thing and getting another. Not letting those marketers push stuff at you that you didn’t agree to in the first place. Which is why it was refreshing when IMTW launched to be told that the podcast will be pitch and plug free of the presenters businesses. Great stuff – integrity! Information without sales. A glass of cool water in this burning landscape.

And then Ed Dale plugs Michelle MacPhearson’s latest launch.

Just a mention – but he did.

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Brad Fallon Goes Bananas

Bitchin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:45:03 +0000

Brad Fallon’s Twittering is erratic to say the least. 7261 followers (he’s a guru, don’t ya know) but only 262 updates since April 2007 (yep, 21 months – approx. 1 Tweet every 2.5 days).

He’s what I would call more of a “I’ve gotta launch” tweeters than someone who stops to genuinely interact.

So, Brad votes for his friend in the Shorty Awards and tweets about it. 11 hours later he comes back to tell everyone he is “crankin’ up energy on Twitter as I engage some awesome new Twitter strategies. Only ONE catch, it requires “listening”"

Funny – Brad doesn’t seem interested in listening himself.

He has 7261 followers and follows 6749 people. He can’t possibly be listening to any one of those people unless they send a Tweet directly to him.

But look! He makes it quite clear he does not have to be one of those listeners. That only applies to the rest of the Twitter population (the ones who buy his shit)

And as well as sending 13 (of his 262) tweets in just 1 hour, he starts telling US how to use Twitter.

Apparently it’s all about listening (us not him) and then us all clicking on his link that automates a message to our own updates saying “@shortyawards I vote for @dhollings in the Shorty Awards Finals for #socialmedia because… he offers great Twitter Tips” (good news is that the intelligent among us at this point don’t actually click our update buttons).

Talk about burning long term relationships for a quickie on the side! (though that could be his strategy, he doesn’t use his account and now people are all talking about how crazy he is, and he sees it as a worthwhile sacrifice)

Brad, Twitter is about relationships. Give and take. Don’t Twitter only when you want something from us. Listening goes both ways. You may be a “guru” but I can turn you off with the click of the mouse.

Oh…and look….I did!

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Foot In Mouth Disease

Bitchin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:16:03 +0000

It pays for Internet marketers to be up to date with what is going down around them and not just focussing on self promotion. That means reading the latest blogs, keeping up with who’s product is who and generally being present.

Which is why Lynn Terry is apparently fishing a stiletto from her tonsils after this Twitter post

“If you’re using WordPress Direct, now would be a good time to quit. http://bit.ly/uMn5″

Far be it from me to call Lynn slow, but HELLO, that blog post was two months ago and was addressed in the comments by her Internet Marketing This Week partner Ed Dale.

What was the point of Lynn making this point I wonder? Especially when she was a guest of Ed Dale at Over The Edge 2 and would have sat through a presentation by the founder and marketer of WordPress Direct, Marty Rozmanith.

I know if I was partnered with Mizz Terry at this stage I would have a face like I just sucked lemon.

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Do Ya Think?

Bitchin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:58:41 +0000

That John Carlton is sending a message to Andy Jenkins in his post today The Reason You Screwed Up . Totally makes sense to me,

Film editors…

You screw up… you disembowel the entire gig.

And your fabulous excuse doesn’t fix anything.

No one wants to hear it.

Wonder how much that screw up with Stompernet really cost….

p.s. hahah I screwed up myself…apologies RSS feeders!

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Leave Your BRAIN At The Door

Bitchin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:13:56 +0000

Buy me!

Question: Have you seen the new PPC Spy thing being bandied about? For fun go sign up with a gmail account or something just to get to the second video. Now ask yourself one simple question – are you stupid enough to sign up for the platinum product.

The premise this product is being sold on is fatally FLAWED and the flaw is so easy to spot. Yet I bet a gazillion greedy people out there will go “hey I’m leaving my brain in my wallet and pulling out my credit card”.

Who is the ONLY market that will buy the Platinum upgrade? Idiot wannabes

How many idiot wannabes will upgrade? Lets be generous and say 5000

That is a market of only 5000 you are hoping to have purchase through one of your affiliate links. WTF!!!

What are those idiot wannabes going to buy from your links? NOTHING! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHING!!! They will buy from their own freaking affiliate links if they are buying something.

If I was going to market this product I would have sold the basic package for $97 and had the affiliate link revenue go to a charity of my choice (the few cents it will make). That at least means idiot wannabes are doing something useful other than being mindless cud chewing bovines.

Also…why is Mike Filsaime promoting this product. One would hope you do not end up on one of his “suck the newbies dry” mailing lists. I bet he is laughing his ass off right about now

So if you are reading this, that means you are one of the first to understand the power of this and take action with it it to make money. Join me in using this great software and make sure to upgrade. It would be silly to not upgrade now. Just plain silly.”

Mike Filsaime
MarketingDotCom.com

Silly? Yeah i wouldn’t be able to write a decent testimonial either if I was laughing as hard as Mike probably is.

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Not That There is Anything Wrong With That

Bitchin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:56:05 +0000

Look out around the traps for the new Mike Filsaime product. It won’t be hard to find. All the “inner circle” dudes will be helping their “buddy” out by spruiking it up. And I will probably rant about the whole offer later because it totally makes me laugh is so incongruent.

But tell me, what freaking market is he going for using this kind of graphic? Rainbows, pink, a well groomed man (who is probably obsessively neat). Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just sayin’

Rating: Alternative lifestyle? Mike can has it

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The Spam Seed.

Bitchin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:23:52 +0000

Interesting that on further research into the Wayne Mansfield name that was compared to Ed Dale we come up with a Wikipedia entry that just BOGGLES the mind with the description of the heinous activities that Wayne Mansfield apparently got up to.

Extract:

Wayne Mansfield, of Perth in Western Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming.

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ACMA’s complaint in this matter was upheld^[5] in the Australia Federal Court on 13 April 2006. The Court imposed a penalty of AU$4.5 million on Clarity1, and AU$1 million on Wayne Mansfield, on 27 October 2006^[5].

If that was me I would have changed my name AND left the country.

And Ed Dale would have been uber pissed to be compared to the kind of scum he truly detests.

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