PAB-Bot Visit Of The Week

AllTheMonitoringThatFits
MediaVille

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Update, 12 noon Tuesday June 15/10: Neal Hall in the VSun is reporting that K McCullough, after ending with allegations about shooting monkeys or some such thing, is now done with M. Brown....M. Bolton is now having a go....And the subject is.....Patrick Kinsella.....'Allegedly'.....
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It's interesting to me that the subject of media monitoring has come up repeatedly during the last few days of cross-examination of Premier Gordon Campbell's chief of staff, Mr. Martyn Brown during the RailGate trial.

A good example was an exchange from late last week between Robert Virk's* lawyer Kevin McCullough and Mr. Brown which was recorded for posterity by Bill Tieleman:

McCullough: "Media monitoring - that was part of your job?"

Brown: "Part of it - not hour to hour, minute to minute issues management. Media monitoring people advise us of issues by the hour."

Now, of course, all this hourly advising by the fine 'media monitoring people' from the Public Affairs Bureau (ie. PAB-Bots) which, as we've discussed in the past, are part of a massive apparatus that includes hundreds of employees hired by Martyn Brown himself that cost tens of millions of dollars every single year, is really just to keep track of the utterances of the heavyweights like Vaughn Palmer, Mike Smyth, Gary Mason, and Keith Baldrey** .....

Right?

Wrong.

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How do I know that the PAB-Bots are watching/monitoring way, way more than more than just the heavyweights amongst the puffed-up proMedia punditry?

Well.....

It turns out that sincce the Railgate Trial started for real I am now visited, on average, much more than 'hourly' from the "gov.bc.ca" domain.

In fact, this tiny little F-Troop list blog is visited, on average, more than 50 times a day from folks whose computers originate there.

Now, I also know that not all of those fine folks are PAB-Bots because a number of them have contacted me off-line to tell me they are not, but instead are just as interested as any bonafide Railgate Cult member in what is really going on.

But.....

Many of them are definitely PAB-Bots that I have gotten to know by their sub-domains, their specific locations, and, in particular, where they come from (ie. they really like to land here after visiting the Tyee's blog-listing page, for example).

And then, there are times, you can tell based on what they're looking for.

Like the visit shown below that took place late last Thursday just minutes after I posted up a piece titled, 'RailGate Goes Boating To Savary Island....Allegedly' (note the PAB-Bot's google search word string outlined in red as well as the fact that they left by clicking out to Mark Hume's Globe piece that I quoted on the matter):

(click image above to enlarge)

So....

For the Bots that are sure to land here today - How do you like them apples?

And/or road signs.


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*Why, all of a sudden are all the proMedia folks calling the fine fellow formerly known as Bob from Burnaby "Bobby" anyway?
**Whoops, of course there is no need to monitor Mr. Baldrey....My mistake...Which really makes you wonder, given the withering of the 'foot the fire' folks round here - just who the heck are they monitoring, really?....
Finally, I am under no illusion that it is anything more than the low level worker bees-bots that I can actually identify via the domain mentioned....After all, as we have learned from trial testimony as well, there is this little matter of 'parallel private computers' in PAB-Bot offices that we have to contend with also...And then there are the 'cloaking service' domains that have suddenly started popping-up like little exploding kernels of buttery goodness on my site-meter as well in the last few weeks....

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