Yahoo To Lose Credibility
So Yahoo is launching a financial show with Henry Blodget. This is a guy who was banned for life from the SEC. Great move huh? Let’s hire a guy with no credibility at all who was banned for life to do a financial show. On top of it he looks like Danny Bonaduce.
In 2002, Eliot Spitzer published Merrill Lynch e-mails in which Blodget allegedly gave assessments about stocks, which conflicted with what was publicly published.[4] In 2003, he was charged with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He settled without admitting or denying the allegations and was subsequently banned from the securities industry for life.
Posted in 1938 Media, Dishonest, Dopes, LiarThe trouble for me here is that part of me believes that Henry Blodget ought to be in jail. He made millions of dollars doing something he knew to be corrupt.
The Scoble Curse
Brilliant analysis via the very funny Christopher Coulter on Bobby’s blog.
The Scoble Curse remains rock solid, amazingly so…talks up Facebook, then Beacon and then Plaxo ScrapeGate. Talks up Apple, then Leopardgate and broken MacBookgate. Talks up Longhorn then delayed Vistagate. Talks up Seagate then Free Agentgate. Talks up Xbox 360, then billion-dollar recall-gate. Talks up Tablets SPOT, UMPC-Origami, and then zilchgate. Talks up HD-DVD, and then scandalgate. Talks up Second Life, and wastelandgate. Talks up Kindle, and kindle firewoodgate.
If I was a Marketer, based on the historical track record, once the belly-laugh Scoble comes at you with the shaky cams, offering free media coverage, don’t bite, as it’s not ‘free’, not in any sense of the word, it will cost you dearly in terms of the ‘curse’.
Still think seesmic has a chance?
Posted in 1938 Media, Cursed, Dopes, Resistance Is Futile, Robert ScobleI Want To Share With You
Hi, I’m sharing with you. And you dont even have to be subscribing to a feed to fave it. And it’s not hooked into your feeds.
Will Smith Belongs On My Lawn In A Harlequin Suit
Awesome quote for the holidays.
He says, “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’.
“I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.”
Reprogramming sounds a lot like Scientology to me.
Posted in 1938 Media, Black, Dopes
