Thread: Blogs we Like

Originally Posted by baylee

It is already been mentioned but my favorite is Patrick Pretty.

PatrickPretty.com: PatrickPretty.com: Covering Ponzi Schemes, pyramid schemes, securities fraud, investment fraud and Internet crime.: Ponzi Schemes. Securities fraud. HYIP Schemes. Pyramid Schemes. Investment Fraud. Internet Crime.

I agree with this but I am tempted to say that a TitBits version of PatrickPretty would sell in the UK and possibly overseas. When British people ask me why I put my blog and web sites on ice for four years rather than closing them down, I tell them I want to write Tit-Bits style articles for serious journalists like Patrick.

Brits with Edwardian or Victorian parents/grandparents can ask them if they remember Tit-Bits. Wikepedia states that the magazine concentrated on drama and sensationalism. It did but that also included real news. It was nothing like the lewd and crude news reported in gossip magazines today. Good writers were happy to have their work reviewed by Tit-Bits. The magazine sold their stories to a new audience.

It was not a children’s magazine but children learned things which their parents found very difficult to put into words. I can remember being given the same stupid answer when I asked my parents questions such as 1) What is the iron curtain? 2) Who built The Berlin Wall? 3) What do starving people from Belsen look like? or 4) How do you make hydrogen bombs? Tit-Bits did not answer these questions but it covered serious news and brought awareness to a new generation of thinking people.

I have often wondered what I would say to my own parents if we were to meet in an alternative universe and they asked me to give them quick replies to subjects like 1) Who on earth would listen to anybody with a ridiculous name like SoapBoxMum. Who is she when she is at home? 2) Is Eagle Research anything to do with American comics that glorify outlaws like Billy The Kid? 3) Where is Scamlanpro’s Mountain of Love? 4) How can I calculate numbers on a screen? or 5) Why was Andy Bowdoin sent to jail. Did he buy shares with monopoly money?

I do not expect Patrick to invite me to write Tit-Bits style articles for him but a beginners guide to some of the subjects covered by his blog could help some of us pick up threads on a genre of scams which we have never followed