| Yes!!!
Unfortunately, I do not believe that providing "information"
and
"understanding" is what certain other bloggers are motivated
by and
if we
have to read them (and this is unavoidable
because of
churnalism), we and others should
understand the
accuracy,
realities and motivation behind their type of
"information" and
"understanding". This is a different form
of 'bias' from Groklaw.
To remind
you of arguments about dubious activities, if you
haven't visited a more
'activist' FOSS-biased site
recently you might want to have a look at:
Speak Out: Did
Microsoft Florian — Funded Also by
Apple — ‘Spam’ You Too? More Funding Appears
to Come From
Anti-Android/Linux Camp. | Techrights
and the older:
How Microsoft
Florian ‘Cooks’ Spin |
Techrights Astroturfing, aided by it's
accomplice - churnalism,
is technically against the law in the EU:
EU cracks down
on fake blogger astroturfing • The
Register was the hope! In practice, we
need to use test
cases and precedent to expose - EU Commission Justice
Website
- "Unfair commercial practices" under what is, in
reality, a general
anti-abuse law:
Unfair
commercial practices - Justice
(The one thing I
must praise the FOSS Patents Blog
for, is the amazing output that is
sustained in a field that
spans
two technical fields in which the author has
no formal
qualifications(?) - as far as I can tell [Wikipedia has
hidden
the
relevance of high school-only qualifications, academic
snobbery and all that!].
pj will
appreciate this more than me - and be able to comment,
though she may
not feel that to be wise. He
increased from 106 in 2010 to 335 in 2011 to 628
last year
using the numbers on the site. As
far as I can tell (without looking
at them all - search for
"guest" did not produce any 'guest articles' like
Groklaw
occasionally invites - these are all self-attributed - in
spite of(?)
all his paid consulting and advisory roles! It's
almost as though he
gets help with some of
this extraordinary investigative activity,
analysis and text
production. Maybe someone could put this stuff through an
'author' algorithm? If it is all down to FM - then 'praise
be to quantity over
quality'! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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