ext_114167 ([identity profile] genesayssitdown.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2013-05-17 07:22 am
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Jon Monsarrat brings “General Electric and Citigroup Power” to Expose Cyberbullies

Posted May 17th, 2012:

"Cambridge, MA ( prsync ) May 17, 2013 - Jon Monsarrat is bring the same consulting services to fight cybercrime that he has used to advise top executives from General Electric and Citigroup. Through previous consulting jobs, he helped executives at GE Trade put together an import / export offset program to help them make sales worldwide. And for Citigroup he worked to design for them an "active bank system". Now he is bringing that power to expose cyberbullies, with a twist: two new patented technologies. The previous press release "Jon Monsarrat, $160 Million DotCom Icon, to Expose 100 Cyberbullies" dated May 8, 2013, was sent out with incorrect information. First, due to a miscommunication when the press release was being written, the venture is not part of Monsarrat's Hard Data Factory, and Rickland Powel l is not a contact. Instead the service is part of Monsarrat Consulting, his private consulting practice, and does not involve Rickland Powell. Second, due to a separate miscommunication, the press release stated that the new venture launched with partnerships. That was in error. The new venture does not launch with any partnerships."

Read the full press release here: http://prsync.com/monsarrat/jon-monsarrat-brings-general-electric-and-citigroup-power-to-expose-cyberbullies-542401/

[identity profile] icecreamempress.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are the million-dollar computer skills and attention to detail he's touting!
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[personal profile] clauclauclaudia 2013-05-17 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's just a theory. A bit of googling doesn't find any support for it. It certainly didn't come from here...

[identity profile] jikamens.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
For the life of me, I cannot grasp the level of cluelessness and general incompetence required to allow a commercial web site to go live to the public with dummy blog postings and lorem ipsum pages.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2013-05-17 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
But did he actually go live with this, as in advertise it anywhere? It doesn't seem to be his 'main' web site.

[identity profile] jikamens.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone in the web publishing business with an ounce of sense knows that publicly accessible == "going live". If it's on the internet, and you don't want somebody to find it, they will. Until you're ready for the public to see it, you put IP address or password restrictions on it.

It's comparable to a new restaurant covering its windows with paper or soap while it's building out.
Edited 2013-05-17 21:15 (UTC)

[identity profile] ratheripped.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He's used this domain before - there are cached posts from his lectures dating to 2009

This one is especially good:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pA5QMsL4uiUJ:monsarrat.net/johnny_monsarrat/2009/11/typical-personality-quirks.html+&cd=42&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Edited 2013-05-17 21:24 (UTC)

[identity profile] burner-account.livejournal.com 2013-05-18 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Letting someone with an ego problem run with a bad idea because it's too much emotional stress to talk them out of it
Indeed, Johnny! Indeed.