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Taking Flack from the Spamalot Caste - broadstuff
Alan Patrick debunks the argument that since we have public blogs then it is our job to wade through all the PR spam that PR staffers can generate.
ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum: It's a good thing I've been 'out of pocket' the last two days...
Jeneane Sessum sharpens her knife on this PR Spam meme, on one hand restating that 'old PR is dead' and on the other suggesting that PR is some sort of necessary evil. Why don't Jeneane and the others discuss true openness? Coming out in the light of day?
THINK / Musings / Dimensionalizing the web
John Borthwick tries to think outside the website, and makes some tantalizing passes at something useful: a new way of looking at the web.
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PR CAN'T be done in the open. How can you pitch journalists in the public timeline with links and passwords to projects that are still in the final stages of being ready for launch? If everything is done in the open, then no one will get any sort of warning that something is going to launch, nor a chance to look at a project before that time to get an article written. Actually covering launches would then be a free-for-all with a lot of dreck written as people try go churn something out quickly to get the "first" status. Personally, I need that time from pitch to embargo lift to actually try something out, get a feel for it, and then craft a review.
Posted by: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira | May 12, 2008 at 05:28 AM