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Re: ragi post# 107

Thursday, 02/11/2010 4:28:10 PM

Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:28:10 PM

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It delivers impressive promotion results for companies who wish to have their products and services promoted on blogs.

Let me get this straight: BLGW is a professional astro-turfing company? It only stands to reason that they will promoting their stock on blogs as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Astroturfing is an English-language term referring to political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but designed to mask its origins to create the impression of being spontaneous, popular "grassroots" behavior. The term refers to AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.

The goal of such a campaign is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual pushing a personal agenda or highly organized professional groups with financial backing from large corporations, unions, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research. Beneficiaries are not "grass root" campaigners but distant organizations that orchestrate such campaigns.

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