• AndyBeard commented on Aids.gov - The Power of Blogs: Bloggers Unite on World AIDS Day
• 12 days ago
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Whilst funds usage might be a little controversial, I think this is a great way for Bloggers to get behind a worthy cause.

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• AndyBeard commented on ePerks Sues Real Estate Blogger, Blogosphere Unites to Destroy the ePerks Brand
• 5 months ago
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@calinazaret you are totally right to question the theoretical side - it is possible that the IPs in some way are fake as well, that someone was deliberately in some way trying to frame ePerks for something as far back as July 2007 when comments first started to appear en-mass using that IP address.

On Topix there is a similar thread - just a few comments from that range on the first page, but look at what happens on the second page, almost wall to wall Brentwood CA, but all different dates.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/san-leandro-ca/TJ0R7E1R95C3NA04P

This is a company meant to be selling exclusive ZIP codes, yet all their happy customers use the same IP address.

However it is not just forum posts

Full email conversations have been tied to that IP address block over a number of days
Blog comments on multiple blogs.

S Jaffar's comments on Vlad's blog
S. Jaffar's email headers when replying to Vlad's email telling him he is banned
S. Jaffar as the name that appears on the Yahoo answers accusation

Then there are the fake blogs with 20+ comments, all positive, with only a couple of people leaving URLs - these are supposedly from real estate agents promoting online - that kind of reader almost always leaves a URL even on unrelated blogs.

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• AndyBeard commented on Dear Digg - Please Ban My Site
• 9 months ago
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Well one of the ex-staff (co-founder Owen Byrne) at least responded

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