Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

I'm sure by now you've all heard of the infamous Malcor and his recent hacking activities where he was defacing Mac fanboy sites for 24 hours to prove some sort of point about Mac users having too much hubris. Well, as many people have suspected, it has finally been confirmed to be a hoax. The owners of the sites that were supposedly hacked (glennwolsey.com, macapper.com, and applematters.com) agreed to have their sites defaced as a publicity stunt. However, what they didn't count on was one of their own breaking ranks and revealing to everyone the truth about the supposed hacks.

Hadley Stern, over at AppleMatters.com, quickly realized that by pretending their site was hacked, they were causing severely negative press for the company that wrote their CMS as well as their hosting provider. Obviously, those two companies were none too pleased with what was going on. Hadley finally did the right thing and posted a public apology, which you can find here. By doing this, he was able to regain a small amount of integrity.

The two other perpetrators, however, have neither posted an apology to their readers, nor have they even acknowledged that truth of their actions. In fact, when their readers first accused them of the hoax, they were ridiculed! This is pathetic, and they should be ashamed of themselves. Not only did they lose all personal integrity, but they also cast a negative light on the Wordpress developers, as well as their hosts (MediaTemple hosts GlennWolsey.com).

At this point, it's obvious the Glenn Wolsey should not be a featured client of Media Temple. He is currently getting his hosting for free, and in return what does he do? He makes it appear that Media Temple is an easily hackable hosting platform!

If you think Glenn's free ride at Media Temple should stop, take a moment to send them an email and let them know why. Address it to the CEO of Media Temple, Mr. Demian Sellfors, and use the contact form at: http://www.mediatemple.net/company/contact_us/

Hi, I'm Glenn!...Hi, I'm Glenn!...Hi, I'm Glenn!

The only thing worse that posting useless content, is posting it multiple times. When reading Glenn's latest post about cleaning out his RSS subscriptions, I was vaguely reminded of another post I had read about cleaning out RSS subscriptions. If I could just remember where...OH RIGHT!! It was on GlennWolsey.com of course. Notice the similarity between the following two posts?

http://www.glennwolsey.com/2007/11/27/im-feeded-up-goodbye-non-essential-subscriptions/

http://www.glennwolsey.com/2007/02/05/i-trimmed-down-my-rss-reader-free-time-galore/

Honestly Glenn, there was absolutely nothing substantial in the first post, so why recycle the same garbage and post it again? Going back to the same quote I used in the first post (including a part I didn't publish the first time around), it seems like your actions completely contradict your words. And we all know that actions are what count.

I've always kept a simple vision when it comes to blogging for maximum output quality for myself and advertisers. Quality content people want to read. I don't try and trick people into reading anything, they read it because they enjoy it.

-Glenn Wosley
source: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/10/the-apac-effect.html

How exactly does informing your readers you trimmed down your RSS feeds qualify as quality content? Are you seriously that delusional?

How Many Times Should I Mention My Setup Today?

I was reading Glenn's Friday desktop background post, and to my surprise, he included a link to his post about his 30 inch display. Actually I wasn't surprised, considering he links back to his post about his Mac Pro and 30 inch display in about 90% of his posts. This is possibly the most annoying thing this kid does. CONSTANT links to older posts about his setup. Seriously Glenn, you need to get over yourself. Tons of people own the equipment that you own, and don't seem to feel the need to bring it up constantly.

- Wolsey Watcher

Hypocrisy At It's Finest

Come one, come all! Welcome to the first post at WolseyWatch, the blog dedicated to exposing the hypocrisy, false information, and general Macintosh masturbation that's posted every week at the Mac fanboy site, GlennWolsey.com. The idea to start this blog came to me when I was reading some comments on one of the websites that had been hacked by the infamous Malcor. One commenter posted a theory that the hack on GlennWolsey.com was not a hack at all, but rather part of a PR campaign. Glenn himself posted a response, which stated his brand new "sponsored" laptop had not been purchased by MacHeist, but by the creator of this site. Let me now explain why this intrigued me.

I remember reading an interview Glenn had done where he commented on the types of advertisers and sponsorship he accepts.

"I don't try and trick people into reading anything, they read it because they enjoy it. I try to take on board a similar approach with my advertisers, only taking on "quality" advertisers my reader base will be interested in."

- Glenn Wolsey

Hmm. Maybe I'm missing something Glenn, but I don't see why your readers would be interested in one of the many Million Dollar Homepage knock-off sites. Your sponsor's site could possibly be the most useless site on the Internet. But maybe I've got it all wrong. Why don't you enlighten me?

- Wolsey Watcher