Mashable Mark Hopkins Slits Puppies Throat

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Mashable Mark Hopkins Slits Puppies Throat

Oh, Sorry! I just made that up without doing any research.

Still, as I have a blog I must be a “journalist” and this gives me the right to go attack other people on an unfounded personal crusade right?

Overview - John Reese emailed his list asking them to follow him on Twitter. Their personal choice is obviously yes or no. Nothing more complicated than that. Duncan Riley, who received the email blogged a “Pending Sign of the Twitter Apocalypse“ and Mark Hopkins responded with an attack on John on the Mashable blog Is Twitter Vulnerable to Marketer Attack?

I am stoked about the post by Mark Hopkins on Mashable with an unfounded personal attack on John Reese. John is a forward thinker and innovator who has been doing ethical business on the Internet for what is now approaching 20 years. That is several life times in Internet terms. The Internet is a harsh, self regulating and unrelenting place to do business and if you are not above board you don’t last 18 years - period!

So BlogRush didn’t turn out as expected. For some reason the puppy slayer is harping on and on and on about what is, after all, a free service. “Switch it off Mark!” Go someplace else. Did you expect to get 10,000 visitors a day from John’s “free” service to make you rich without doing anything and it didn’t happen? Is that the main gripe why you obviously hate the free BlogRush service and in turn feel justified in “trying” to hang John out to dry?

For myself, I have only recently started using BlogRush and it is working as advertised. If it wasn’t I would spent 30 seconds to remove the code and it wouldn’t bother me ever again. Otherwise I guess I could always start a hate campaign against John the e-book salesman!

The front page of BlogRush does not offend me and I do not find it misleading - I am intolerant of hype, half truths and misleading statements.

The vitriol oozing from Hopkin’s every orifice and pore is apparent in a quote such as “known Web 2.0 flopster and prolific e-book salesman John Reese”

For ANYBODY who has half a brain and knows just a little about the main, (and ethical), players in the eCommerce community they would know this instantly to be a false and unfounded attack. And I read somewhere that Hopkins is meant to be a journalist, as well as a puppy slayer - don’t journalists conduct research to substantiate what they write?

Don’t they have an obligation to report on truthful facts? Of course they do but then I am of course referring to… journalists. Whether Hopkins is a journalist or not means nothing to me. He has abused a position of privilege and should be taken to task. At the very least he should be a man, do some real unbiased research and apologize to John Reese.

You can catch John’s response at: Wake Up Call: Web 2.0 Wouldn’t Exist Without Internet Marketers

Within the “theme” of this post, i.e. IMers being attacked for being IMers, it is worth noting the following short video from bruceprokopets which I found. Thanks Bruce:

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