The politicswny.com story

This is what gives this medium a bad name:

"We dont like to gloat alot here at wny media.... but we are just three days away from reaching another milestone at WNYmedia.com.
For the month of June for just this website, we are less than 2,000 unique visitors away from passing our previous high (last month) of 39,047. Our monthly visitors ( people who keep coming back for more) are 3 times that!!
In just three months we have gained 10,000 daily readers just to WNY media.com." Mark Odien!!!

Email: "Just for clarification purposes, it was Chris Smith, the man who runs the blog BuffaloGeek.com, who said the line about "40,000 page views a day" and not I. Chris and I spoke today and he said he was the one who said that. He did have the wrong wording there as he should have said 40,000 page views a week. I didn't remember saying that on the air so I'm glad to hear I wasn't losing my mind even though I am turning 30 this Sunday. Have a great holiday"

Dan Meyer

Update: People in the know are laughing at Mark Odien's explanations, WNY Media Stats, for the number of errors recorded on his stats report. Not to mention his idiotic explanation for the amount of bandwidth my site uses as compared to his entire network. Bottom line is the man is a complete liar & fraud.

Albeit, the real belly laugh this Monday morning must be directed at Amherst Times Jim *******. Jim & my publication, then the www.Illuzziletter.com, worked very closely six years ago on the Plant 16, Waste Treatment Plant expose. Too Ticoli's credit his info proved accurate as witnessed by a recent series by the Buffalo News, as is the norm years after the fact. Witness the paper's coverage of the Giambra administration as another example.

I mentioned to Jim, at the time, I knew John Gotti from a short period of time I spent at Lewisburg Penitentiary in 1970-71. Gotti lived on the 3rd floor, I on the 2nd floor of the same cell house. Prison officials put me in that cell house because I was the youngest person im the joint; I could do things, the books, the other inmates couldn't do. The average grade point at the time was 6.4.

So they in their wisdom put me in the same cell house as the a group of NYC Sicilian/Italian mobsters for my protection. Many stories about those six months; for now I included ******* in my Odien remarks because he is the only one who could have shared that "incorrect" info with Odien, as usual (esp. as of late) ******* had the story wrong.

Mar "k" Odien mentioned on his site that three of his bloggers were going to be on the radio Sunday. He had two reasons: One I would mention the show, happy too, Kevin Hardwick at 10:00 am. The other writing why have I never been a guest on the show. Actually, I opened his first three or four shows. I believe the guy has truly lost it this time! His bloggers might want to get him some help! He & Jim ******* can check into the same asylum. ###

WNY Media Stats: Please note the number of failed requests 81,000 plus. Any expert will tell you someone was just clicking the site via a program in order to get this many failed requests. Also note the pages read, someone changed the two top numbers, this based on the rest of the info.

These numbers are fraudulent! Odien pulled his numbers from the WNY media site; but alas he cannot escape the truth. ###

"Mr. Illuzzi spends the day refreshing his own website. Since he's the only one that reads it, that would explain his ridiculous claim of 48 GB.... Which is a lie in and of itself." Mark Odien

Well, Mark, I sell ads, 100's over the years, (So I'm certainly not the only one reading my site.), in part, predicated on these numbers, so if not true the DA can arrest me for fraud. I suggest when & if you ever sell "1" ad, like in one, for your twenty member network you had better start telling the truth & stop the 'bizzare ramblings' or, this isn't a threat, it is a promise, I will see you prosecuted.

By the way I wrote, 'sell ads impart on our numbers,' the other parts are content & influence. You fail miserably on both counts. Your lies, profanity, etc., disqualifies you on both counts, Mark.

Do the lies & language make you feel like a man, Mark? Just asking!

PoliticsNY.net June 2006 (Right Off the Server)

Pages Hits Bandwidth


592524
4848717
50.50 GB



I just can't stop laughing at Mark Odien. WNY media, threats, lies, threats, lies! He really expects anyone to believe his nonsense & no one reads his "network" anyway. The others Bedenko, Meyers, Renford, et al., might remember, "you sleep with dogs you get fleas."

The world was made for Dick Kern & Mark Odien to collaborate.

Oh & yes, I knew John Gotti 36 years ago, Jimmy Hoffa, et al., we were all in the class of 1971.

(I am forwarding your last post to to "Junior" Gotti. I am sure he will find you as amusing as I do; but then again maybe not! By the way do you know where Hoffa's body is buried? You claim too know everything else, Mark.) ###

Like Mark Odien, anyone who uses Alexa to validate stats has something to hide or is just out & out lying . Alexa doesn't count multiple URLs, etc. Use of Alexa's tool bar is a principle criteria too even begin to get a fair count. The numbers are just false. Scott Jones, Real Amherst.com now defunct, used Alexa all of the time until he was exposed as a liar.

Let me make the point Odien claims 23.7 gigabytes of bandwidth for the month, for his "multiple" linked site. Our single page 48.9 gigabytes of bandwidth for our single page format. Bandwidth, easily verified, is an accurate indicator of traffic to a given web site, in this case 11 or 12 web sites which is WNY media. The man, aka Buffalo Watchdog, is an out & out liar; every dog has his day!

Odien sent me an email Thursday thanking me for the "Free Press." The emails I get say why even bother with a low life like Odien, just ignore him like everyone else, Joe. After being fired from his last two jobs no one will hire him & no one takes him seriously because he has "Flipped" out!

Illuzzi: I don't ignore him, 'all of the time,' because he gives this medium a bad name.

A good point: This character says his site will do "40,000" unique visits this month, not including the rest of the network. Odien's claim is not only ludicrous but what he is saying anyone who visits his site, which is updated daily, only comes back one or twice a month!

Who in their right mind would want to advertise on a site that is visited so infrequently?

Truth is this gambit is reminiscent of Scott Jones', "Real Amherst.com" now defunct, fraudulent claims. I have a source on the inside of Odien, Hamburg Sun's Dan Meyer, Bedenko, et al., operation (Bedenko does a good job.), these stats are completely false, number one. Number two, if true & they are not WNY media would rival the Buffalo News. What they do is send out spam, multiple links counted as visits, this kind of thing to fabricate their numbers; in this case it is just & out & out lying.

WBEN's Hardwick Sunday radio show, Hamburg Sun Editor Dan Meyer said, the entire network does 40,000 page views a day; who is lying Meyer or Odien or both. That would be 1.2 Million a month. My single page site does about half of that (600,000) & we do not approach 40,000 unique visits per month.

The problem is these clowns are going to attempt to sell ads based on these numbers. I believe that is a crime, a felony if I am not mistaken. I can tell you with absolute certainty very - very few people I know read these blogs. No one has "flipped" over WNY media!

By the way one of the most significant elements to the "Flipping" story was missed by its producers. Government sponsored "Flipping" via Grants. One East side Corp. got circa a million dollars & bought five houses on the East side, sold one, the rest of the $$$ went for administrative costs. I believe the Corp was called EBCOP or something like that. We did volumes on the issue back in 1998-99, art, the works