{"id":121,"date":"2006-09-15T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/09\/15\/astroturfing-the-blogoshphere\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:39:06","slug":"astroturfing-the-blogoshphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/09\/15\/astroturfing-the-blogoshphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Astroturfing the Blogoshphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-images\/inline\/astroturf.jpg\" class=\"inline_image\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure this is frequently complained about elsewhere.  So now its my turn.  I am increasingly offended by blatent corporate blog <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astroturfing\">astroturfing<\/a>.  IBM provides two great examples of bullshit in blog&#8217;s clothing.  <\/p>\n<p>The first is thier <a href=\"http:\/\/nextlevel.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/\">Next Level Blog 2006<\/a>, a blog ostensibly about innovation.  And the second is <a href=\"http:\/\/healthnex.typepad.com\/\">HealthNex<\/a>.  This one particularly bad.  I haven&#8217;t found a single post that isn&#8217;t a commercial for the corporation or some corporate product.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have a point with this, other than it makes me mad.  Grr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure this is frequently complained about elsewhere. So now its my turn. I am increasingly offended by blatent corporate blog astroturfing. IBM provides two great examples of bullshit in blog&#8217;s clothing. The first is thier Next Level Blog 2006, a blog ostensibly about innovation. And the second is HealthNex. This one particularly bad. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-1X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}