{"id":5001,"date":"2010-04-06T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T14:25:37","slug":"townhall-com-promotes-google-takeover-of-bloggerwave-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"TownHall.com Promotes Google Takeover of Bloggerwave Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a habit out of going after TownHall.com email alerts &#8211; usually because of the political implications of their get-rich-quick schemes.<\/p>\n<p>But today, TownHall.com is promoting &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.typeinvestor.com\/BLGW\/2010_02_16_landing_list.html?c=FP&amp;s=BLGW&amp;d=2010_04_06&amp;l=135\">Frank&#8217;s Penny Stocks<\/a>&#8221; which is claiming that the site <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggerwave.com\/\">Bloggerwave<\/a> is going to be worth a lot of money:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve said it many times now, Don&#8217;t Wait &#8211; BLGW is a Takeover Target for Google&#8230;Yahoo and Microsoft could be watching and waiting too.<\/p>\n<p>Had you followed my advice you could have already secured huge gains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve never been so certain. BLGW is lighting up like a firecracker&#8230;and that could make you a bundle of profits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I have no special inside information here &#8211; but the Google takeover bit is a load of bullshit. Frank&#8217;s Penny Stocks analysis of why BLGW is a good pick is jaw-droppingly\u00a0naive\u00a0about social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A<em>ll the buzz today is about\u00a0<strong>social media<\/strong><\/em>\u2014and it&#8217;s more than just a craze. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, blogs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo made a $1 BILLION offer to buy Facebook.\u00a0Subsequently, the offer was turned down by the 22-year old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and his partners. Foolish maybe, but it just goes to show that the big boys are willing to pay big bucks for these sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then of course is the street vendor sales language:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[BLGW] has a client list worth its weight in gold<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0BUY NOW alarms went off all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE a good $tock $tampede!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the basic point is this: Google won&#8217;t be buying Bloggerwave. Bloggerwave may make money &#8211; but it will only do so if Google allows it to &#8211; and its <em>modus operandi<\/em> is contrary to Google&#8217;s. It&#8217;s about companies buying positive social media coverage rather than advertisements. It doesn&#8217;t seem transparent or open in how it makes money the way other Google businesses are. It just isn&#8217;t a good fit.<\/p>\n<p>For more TownHall idiocy covered, see <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?page_id=4917\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4899\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4391\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3964\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3943\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3871\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3742\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3735\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3556\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a habit out of going after TownHall.com email alerts &#8211; usually because of the political implications of their get-rich-quick schemes. But today, TownHall.com is promoting &#8220;Frank&#8217;s Penny Stocks&#8221; which is claiming that the site Bloggerwave is going to be worth a lot of money: I&#8217;ve said it many times now, Don&#8217;t Wait &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,7],"tags":[2719,2715,2713,2714,2717,2370,2718,2228,2716],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-the-web","tag-tock-tampede","tag-blgw","tag-bloggerwave","tag-franks-penny-stocks","tag-get-rich-quick-schemes","tag-microsoft","tag-townhall","tag-townhall-com","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1iF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}