Blog World is an example of how con artists rip off people who are new to blogging. But why attend a conference organized by spammers and champions of unsafe blogging practices?

 Watch this video and see  how great Blog World 2009 was!

Blog World 2009 Las Vegas

They charge big bucks to watch idiots quote Technorati statistics on the blogosphere and tell them the obvious. Like "Put web links in there for search engine optimization. Be sure to list your podcast on as many directories as possible. iTunes is the most popular...".

On and on they drone.

Unsafe blogging practices, like Location Based Status Updates, are presented as fun and fulfilling. Stealth Spamming is my term for how these social media conferences are hyped on Twitter. 

I watch the attendees, many of them single women, tweet about what airport they're in en route to Las Vegas for Blog World. Then I hear on the news about a young lady who disappears at a Metallica concert, leaving her cell phone and purse behind.

On Twitter, the only people who care what airport you're at are burglars, stalkers, angry ex-husbands, and other predators. But the technocratic social media geeks persuade mommy bloggers and small business owners to follow their silly example.

"You adore me so much, I'm sure you care what I had for lunch and what movie I just saw," they tweet and the lemmings lap it up, feeling an intimate connection to their unseemly gurus.

Too bad these pundits don't share things that will actually benefit their disciples. Perhaps they have no expertise or insights. Could it be that they have only hype, basic blogging tips, and quotes from better authorities?

"Make $10,000 per month with your blog!" the blog conference quacks shout. "Expand your network, get  100,000 new Twitter followers in one week with Twitpisser!" they proclaim.

 Dazzled by dumpy displays, new bloggers get their companies to pay high priced registratioin fees so they can pass around a bottle of rotgut wine and spread H1N1 germs. 

 Money spent on over-priced blog conferences could be better spent buying some books by real experts like Tom Peters, Seth Godin, and Robert Scoble.

Read this funny post on SEO Book, exposing the stupidity of Social Media Marketing quacks "Social Media Guruism Mostly Harmless"

 Here's some more "brilliance" from Blog World 2009. Adam Corolla explains how he loses money with podcasting due to bandwidth expenses.