AntiSocial Media, Slideshow Presentation by Judd Bagley Options

[Kato]

Here's Judd Bagley's slideshow presentation for anyone who might have missed it. The early part of his lecture covers the Naked Short Selling Financial Issue, gradually moving onto blogging problems, and finally detailing his experiences with Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia stuff is a must see.

You can cut in at any point of the presentation / lecture using the sidebar.

http://antisocialmedia.net/lecture1/player.html

*Update: Blog post about the lecture is here:

http://antisocialmedia.net/?p=158

LECTURE ON ABUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY STOCK MANIPULATORS

I recently had the honor of lecturing a group of business students at the University of Texas, on the topic of abuse of social media by stock manipulators. I’ve merged the recording of the lecture with my slide presentation and make it available for you here.

I should also note that I found this experience to be a very positive one, and would welcome similar opportunities in the future. Please contact me via email at: antisocialmedia@gmail.com

[dtobias]

So I guess it's possible that it's FloNight who forwarded it on?

[Hell Freezes Over]

So I guess it's possible that it's FloNight who forwarded it on?

No idea. I forwarded Wordbomb's e-mails liberally -- along with warnings to be careful about clicking on his links -- because they contained spyware.

[EricBarbour]

No idea. I forwarded Wordbomb's e-mails liberally --
along with warnings to be careful about clicking on his links --
because they contained spyware.

Oh? May we see some of those links?

[Hell Freezes Over]

No idea. I forwarded Wordbomb's e-mails liberally --
along with warnings to be careful about clicking on his links --
because they contained spyware.

Oh? May we see some of those links?

I think some examples were posted in the ArbCom case. Some were tracking applications, others were hidden links to websites he controlled.

For example, I asked him if he had edited WP with any other account. He replied that he was User:Flashgrotto. But there was no such account. What appeared to be a link to the user page contained a hidden link to a blog Bagley had access to. You can see it below, but in gmail the blog link was invisible.

Begins:

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006
From: "Becky Beckett" <mulieribusfare@gmail.com>
To: Sarah <slimvirgin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: status?

I used this account with a colleague to do some serious work I did on
evolution theory and population genetics last year:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Flashgrotto<http://www.charlesdarwinblog.com/wikpedia/Flashgrotto>

Ends

The blog owner said he had contracted with Blake Snow of Provo Labs, Utah, to look after the blog for ad revenue. The CEO of Provo Labs is Paul B. Allen. Bagley is reportedly connected to one or both of these men.

It was because of shenanigans like this that I forwarded Bagley's e-mails to numerous people, with warnings, in case he was doing the same to others.

[WordBomb]

The strangest thing about SV's decision to revive this subject is the fact that in the past, every time it's come up in a setting where I can actually participate, her reputation gets mercilessly hammered. I mean look where she is today compared with two years ago. Am I the only one who sees a link?

But damn...it's like in the movies, when the underworld figure walks into the middle of the meeting between the cops who are at that moment planning his take-down, and then it turns out he's wearing a bomb or something.

Slim, are you wearing a bomb? This is just too easy.

But fine. I'll take one bite.

SV says my email to her made it to Gary Weiss because she was forwarding it liberally to others, warning them that my emails contained "spyware".

First of all, the email actually linked to another file which contained a tracking pixel, which has as much in common with spyware as a firecracker has in common with a nuclear bomb, but anyway.

If this is true, the following must also be true:
1- After ignoring all the (since proven accurate) emails proving Mantanmoreland was Gary Weiss, SV received another email and sensed, without following the link, that it pointed to a document which would alert me when opened.
2- She then felt the best thing to do would be liberally forward the email -- intact -- to others, warning them. Amazingly, none of these opened the document, either.
3- One or more of these recipients decided Gary Weiss needed to see the suspect email. Gary received it and became the first and only person to open it.

Now Slim, how would Mr. Occam regard that silly explanation?

Just as you're seeming to rejoin the human race and I'm beginning to feel some shred of compassion toward you, you revert to form and show up here with your lies. And not even good lies, but insulting, irresponsible ones.

Go get your story straight and come back to try again.