{"id":1337,"date":"2008-02-04T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/04\/online-reputation-management\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:00:13","slug":"online-reputation-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/online-reputation-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reputation Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember some time ago a brouhaha erupted when an upper Midwestern Blogger was told he had to erase a post that said<a href=\"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=615\"> something bad <\/a>(yet truthful) about Cheri Yecke, who was at that time competing for the job of head of Florida Education.  The company was a &#8220;scrubber&#8221; which promised to find bad things on the internet about a client, and get rid of them (the bad things, not the client) for a fee.<!--more-->My response to the company&#8217;s efforts to scrub the Yecke is here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/gregladen.com\/wordpress\/?p=1022\">Arrrrg. Avast ye &#8216;defenders&#8217; &#8230;<\/a>Well, not this sort of company has evolved (ha!  evolution is real!) from &#8220;scrubber&#8221; to &#8220;Online Reputation Management&#8221; service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it&#8217;s to be expected that corporations might have people monitoring online reputations, it&#8217;s quite another thing to have individuals hire firms to do the same thing&#8230;. it sounds like this involves a combination of search engine optimization, plus legal bullying of anyone who says something you don&#8217;t like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Legal Bullying.  That service will be very popular among the Intelligent Design Proponents and creationists in general.<a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20080130\/095452127.shtml\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember some time ago a brouhaha erupted when an upper Midwestern Blogger was told he had to erase a post that said something bad (yet truthful) about Cheri Yecke, who was at that time competing for the job of head of Florida Education. The company was a &#8220;scrubber&#8221; which promised to find bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/online-reputation-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online Reputation Management<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}