Jeff Jarvis has a very insightful write up. It also outlines how Federated Media previously approached him to help get Cisco’s name onto a Wikipedia article on their ‘human network‘ slogan. Interesting tactics. (Update: it gets worse for FM and they respond)

Jeff has always had a pretty open and comprehensive about page (for as long as I’ve been reading) but in the blogosphere nobody can hear you cheat until you are caught. A look at Federated Media’s author list is also worth a quick scan. Damn, I read a lot of feeds from that gang!

It all smells, doesn’t it? I’m expecting a mega-iPhoneGate in 3-6 months time (I was hoping not to mention that thing before next week but alas). I mean, c’mon, all that hype, for free? Hilarious!

Update 2: Mark Pilgrim has a fantastic translation of a rather ill-advised comment by a FM VP on the original Valleywag piece.