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August 06, 2004
eWeek article on The Radicati Group scandal
From eWeek
At least one analyst from The Radicati Group decided to take the battle back to the bloggers, and posted responses intended to discredit their criticisms of the report—under a pseudonym.Once it was revealed that a Radicati employee was actually making the posts, e-mails from recently opened Yahoo and Hotmail accounts—traced back to Radicati by Internet addresses in their header information—were sent to some bloggers' employers, urging that they fire the bloggers.
The message went on to call for punitive action against Elgort: "I hope that you take the appropriate action with such a clearly errant employee, who is accomplishing nothing but ruining [your] good name, image and reputation with his malicious online drivel. If you are unable to do so, I will be happy to escalate this matter to someone higher in the organization."
And Radicati said she has sent e-mails to IBM executives, including Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace products for IBM Lotus, urging Brill's firing. She has called for Brill's dismissal in the past as well, in part for comments he made on his blog referring to her company as "infamous."
More information at Radicati Group wiki.
Posted by michael at August 6, 2004 11:43 AM
Comments
It really sounds like "somebody" likes to write emails to get people fired. Hmmmmm....... who could it be?
Posted by: Bruce Elgort at August 8, 2004 04:13 PM
Will someone please fire Bruce from this blog?
Posted by: Daniel Johnson at August 8, 2004 09:10 PM
Cute Mr. Braly :-)
Posted by: Bruce Elgort at August 8, 2004 09:30 PM