Todays RepuTrace Adventures as We Search For The Blog Eagle

Well first, doing our whirl around the Internet, came across another blog where someone is not happy with a RepuTrace client harrassing and stalking one of their blogs:

Another harrassed blogger is http://morfmunt.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5147942F2A9EB812!961.entry

Reputrace.com has a problem with one of my Blogs (called the Strike is Over), they’ve hit it eight times in the past three days, I’m still trying to figure out which party is objecting? Someone go back and read and see if I may have slandered anyone with a lie, I can't really tell, because I'm too close to the words (having written them).

Thought next, we would share some of the ISP information we have gleened from our visitors (RepuTrace) North of the border...yes, that is Canada, home of RepuTrace.

207.245.21.143 http://www.prworks.ca/index.php/calling-all-testicle-challenged-pr-snoops-snakes-and-bullies/ Interesting...like RepuTrace, this guy also has a Canadian ISP...could he be a RepuTrace client/user...you all can decide that.

207.245.21.191 http://www.prworks.ca/index.php/calling-all-testicle-challenged-pr-snoops-snakes-and-bullies/ Interesting...like RepuTrace, this guy also has a Canadian ISP...could he be a RepuTrace client/user...you all can decide that. That's right, same information as the above floating ISP number.

66.244.255.46 router1.toronto.openminds.ca

216.249.14.59.tor.pathcom.com (link says site under construction.)

66.175.110-65.q9.net The Q9 network, a high performance network that connects directly to all major Internet backbones, effectively placing customer web servers at the core of the Internet. With over 30 Internet connections, Internet traffic is automatically routed around network outages to ensure web sites co-located with Q9 always have the fastest response times available.

CPE001560ad6ba9-CM0011ae926ec4.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (74.123.69.182)

Meanwhile, guess RepuTrace was not happy that I successfully followed one of thier hits on me back to them, and successfully used screen capture to see and view what they see, as they now have me BLOCKED...Oh, I am so DEPRESSED....NOT. Maybe for giggles I'll contact them for one of their free demo's.

Forbidden
www.reputrace.com/psearch/cgi-bin/nph.fcgi
You don't have permission to access /login/ on this server.
Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 PHP/4.4.4 Server at www.reputrace.com Port 80
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an Error Document to handle the request.

RepuTrace...Inside The Belly Of The Beast

So, you go check your stats one day, and THERE IT IS, the beast from the black lagoon
there in your list, away from everything else on the list, RepuTrace! So, for those wondering what part of a Reputrace tracker/stalker does, here is a CLUE. It's a glorified search engine! In the case of their tracking me for instance, the search took 10 seconds, and returned 216 links to various and assorted sites and blogs that were tagged RepuTrace...Technorati does a better job, and from what I can tell, at a far CHEAPER PRICE. Here is one of the HITS that came up for my site.

19. RepuTrace Found On Consumerist Site
topics: dick cheney · snakes · spying · repugnant · anal probe · corex · reputrace · blog death troopers [more...] corporate mafia · brandprobe · blog eagle · slithering · Seems that the folks over at consumerist.com have been visited by our willy RepuTrace beast as well. Wondering if they were SWOOPED down upon like... sitemeter referrals: Reputrace is a blog monitoring service. They promise clients the ability to watch, "consumer opinion, employees concerns ...
http://reputracehuntsus.blogspot.com/2007/05/reput ...

Seems Work Blogging Had Something To Say As Well About RepuTrace

Just a suggestion, but maybe RepuTrace should learn that citizens don't like NSA needlessly spying on us, so we damn sure don't like private companies doing it. Found the item below over on Work Blogging.

RepuTrace(TM) - The Corporate Security Intelligence Tool for small to large businesses monitors internal and external threats on blogs, forums,message boards, chat rooms, consumer sites, videos and images.

http://www.reputrace.com/.

"Should you suspect an unsatisfied customer is spreading malcontent about your company, use CoreX to zero in on Web-based discussion forums. You can even monitor developments within your workforce in the event you have difficulties with disgruntled employees or just want to ensure your personnel are generally happy at work.

"RepuTrace also claims to be able to:

a) Find out what people are saying on blogs and chatrooms about a particular company or developments affecting a particular industry. But can they do dialogue?
b) Search all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. How about suggesting to those companies, less spying, and more quality in their products and services?
c) Track media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.


http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2006/08/work-bloggers-beware.html

Seems Working Place Had Something To Say As Well About RepuTrace

Just a suggestion, but maybe RepuTrace should learn that citizens don't like NSA needlessly spying on us, so we damn sure don't like private companies doing it. Found the item below over on Work Blogging.

RepuTrace(TM) - The Corporate Security Intelligence Tool for small to large businesses monitors internal and external threats on blogs, forums,message boards, chat rooms, consumer sites, videos and images.

http://www.reputrace.com/.

"Should you suspect an unsatisfied customer is spreading malcontent about your company, use CoreX to zero in on Web-based discussion forums. You can even monitor developments within your workforce in the event you have difficulties with disgruntled employees or just want to ensure your personnel are generally happy at work.

"RepuTrace also claims to be able to:

a) Find out what people are saying on blogs and chatrooms about a particular company or developments affecting a particular industry. But can they do dialogue?
b) Search all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. How about suggesting to those companies, less spying, and more quality in their products and services?
c) Track media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.


http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2006/08/work-bloggers-beware.html

Come On RepuTrack...Come Out Of Hiding, Enter The Debate

Come on CoreX/Blog Eagle/Brand Probe/Press Panther/RepuTrace, we know you are here, your scroll rate in the past three hours is remarkable...54 visits this morning!

Live up to your word, and ENGAGE in the debate with the blogging community, instead of letting your clients hide behind a mask. No one likes hidden agendas, no one likes to be spied on by Corporate Lackies out for their 35 pieces of silver. What, this one lone blogger, unhappy with your company STALKING my blogs bothers you so much that you are visiting this blog, on average today, once every THREE MINUTES?

54 We have checked, every one of these Canadian hits is from RepuTrace.
55.67%
Canada

Tracting The Tracker

OH MY! Seems that the folks at RepuTrace have found this RepuTrace Victims Safe Haven! I am expecting a Press Panther to leap out of the wood work at any second, or worse yet...a blog eagle could come screeching out of the sky to claw out my eyes.

http://www.reputrace.com/rss/refeed/view.php?feed=729&what=new&how=paged
Host Name
216.249.14.59.tor.pathcom.com
IP Address
216.249.14.59 [Label IP Address]
Country
Canada
Region
Ontario
City
Thornhill
ISP
Pathway Communications
Returning Visits
0
Visit Length
1 hour 3 mins 56 secs
VISITOR SYSTEM SPECS
Browser
Firefox 2.0.0
Operating System
Windows XP
Resolution
1024x768
Javascript
Enabled

Green Nuclear Butterfly Snooped by RepuTrace

To facts here:

1. Seems that Green Nuclear Butterfly has been visited by the sinister RepuTrace beast, just in the past week.

2. How successful can RepuTrace and CoreX actually be, if one lone blogger attacked just a week ago is already on the top of page 2 when you Google RepuTrace?

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RepuTrace Found On Consumerist Site

Seems that the folks over at consumerist.com have been visited by our willy RepuTrace beast as well. Wondering if they were SWOOPED down upon like a CoreX Blog Eagle, or if it was more of a dark and sinister Press Panther type of and attack. Maybe with their patented BRAND PROBE (is that similar to an anal blog search?), the folks at CoreX are actually alien beings, UFOs scouring the bloggosphere, visiting brand probes on innocent unsuspecting bloggers! Oh My GAWD! Quick, someone call Dick Cheney and the thought police.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/blogs/this-is-what-a-ghost-looks-like-2-211328.php
Blogs
This Is What A Ghost Looks Like #2 50 Views
Further proof that corporate America is watching The Consumerist. Just saw this hit on our sitemeter referrals:
Reputrace is a blog monitoring service. They promise clients the ability to watch, "consumer opinion, employees concerns, competitors strengths and weaknesses and emerging threats to a company's reputation, brand and products."

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CoreX Disclaimer, and Get Yourselves IP Blocker Widget

First, thought it would be amusing to share CoreX's disclaimer on their products. I find it rather amusing, since they admit to making copies of website/blog materials themselves for their clients future use.

CoreX does not sponsor, endorse, or express any opinion whatsoever on, nor does it monitor as to accuracy, the content of the materials to which you are to be linked. CoreX shall not be responsible or liable in any way for the content of such materials. By linking you to other sites, CoreX shall not be considered to have authorized you to copy or in any way reproduce and distribute the material in those sites. You must first obtain the permission of the copyright owners of those materials, to do so.

We here at Stalked by RepuTrace also suggest, as you trace the venom consider installing a IP address blocker widget, so that you can block PESKY RepuTrace visits to your blog, one IP at a time, such as this one: 67.68.42.48

To Defeat The Enemy, You Must Know The Enemy

What a catchy slogan RepuTrace has, "trace the venom" which is what we are doing with this blog as we gather steam. Trace the venom is our battle cry as we locate the assorted victims being STALKED by RepuTrace.

The RepuTrace is a willy and devious creature, capable of taking on many ghosted forms as it creeps and slithers from blog to blog, so beware of the beast. Some of its other forms beside CoreX include the following:

Use these tools to locate valuable information that would otherwise be like finding a needle in a haystack:

RepuTrace™ Monitoring RGM™, consumer opinion, employees concerns, competitors strengths and weaknesses and emerging threats to a company's reputation, brand and products.

BlogEagle™ Swooping in to grab what people are saying on blogs and chat rooms about your company or developments affecting your industry. Were these guys smoking big old fatties when they came up with this one? Can hear them now, "WOW DUDES, how about we like call this program BlogEagle? You know, like SWOOPING in, kind of like I did when I Bogart this joint."

PressPanther™ Diligently tracking media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.

BrandProbe™ Is vital to business. It searches all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. Never mind that said company might be ripping people off, raping the environment, or worse, hiring illegal aliens to replace American workers.

As Elmer Fudd would say, be verwe verwe quiet, we're hunting RepuTraces! Trace the venom.

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RepuTrace Tidbits From Around The Web, First Installment

Dave February 19th, 2007 in PR, reputrace, transparency
http://www.prworks.ca/index.php/can-you-be-kinda-sorta-transparent/#comments

My comments in red.

I’ve been called out for seemingly conflicting points-of-view on transparency. The post I wrote about the Sunsilk wig-out calling for full transparency from those uploading supposedly consumer-generated videos to youtube, etc. seems to counter what I espoused as being a valuable feature of the Reputrace product–masking your IP address from bloggers you may be monitoring.

Sounds like Dave is conflicted...he wants openness and honesty from others, but it's OK if he or RepuTrace is out snooping around the web.

I see the two as very different. As a snooper, sure you do!

If you are creating content and making it available to the world, my personal opinion is that you should disclose if you have a vested interest (commercial, personal) in people reading, listening to or viewing your content. Corporate America, and even President Bush don't...how about if everyone, including RepuTrace starts being a bit more honest?

However, I don’t think you have to be completely transparent when monitoring blogs. Given that we may be monitoring blogs on behalf of our clients or companies, we should have the ability to review content without announcing to the blogger that "I’m here and I’m watching you" by leaving a record of our IP address/domain in the blogger’s dashboard. I don’t necessarily want to be forced to engage the blogger until I’m ready to do so. In order to make the right decision on what to say, when and how, I’ll need to read the blog, poke around back entries, links, etc. So, you want to be a snake? Or, you have no balls, like most bullies, only willing to attack when you can beat your victims into submission?

When I do come up with a response (or not), I’ll be doing it with full disclosure. The only difference is, I make the call on when to alert the blogger to my presence. See my comment above.

Is it OK to lurk without being transparent? If I mask my IP address/domain from a blogger am I being less than transparent? If I’m not obliged to list the blogs that I monitor through my feed reader or the Technorati searches I’m running, why do I have to let every blogger know who I am when I visit their site if I don’t want to? If someone is masking their ISP, they usually have a LOT TO HIDE.

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Victims Of RepuTrace Stalking Unite (CoreX)

Recently, I became aware of a sinister corporate beast slithering through the bloggosphere as various bloggers and their words came under the scrutiny of the RepuTrace! In the coming days and months as this blog is discovered, let the victims of RepuTrace's vile and sinister stalking of bloggers be brought into the light of day as we share our stories of how this blight appeared on our blogs. A visit to their site paints a disturbing picture of a company, and a software meant to stalk and silence our voices one blogger at a time, one environmental activist at a time.

The goal of this blog...to have those bloggers who have been snooped by RepuTrace to link here, so that this blog replaces RepuTrace at the top of the search page every time someone tags the word RepuTrace. Together, we can drive RepuTrace off of the first page. If you are a victim of RepuTrace, leave your blog link in a comment! If you want to tell your story, let us know.

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