Comments on: Public Relations Blogging

By: David Weinberger

David Weinberger — Thu, 20 Oct 2024 00:16:12 +0000

Thank you, Frank. Great seeing you there.

As for my sometimes being wrong, all I can say is: How dare you! I have never been wrong. Except for this paragraph, of course.

In point of fact, I tried to say that blogging is *also* about cats and flipped through three screenshots of cat blogs, asking why the hell blogs shouldn’t be about cats. It actually pisses me off that people think it’s a *criticism* of blogging to say that people write about their cats in them.

As for the NYT criticism (which I of course meant as a criticism of the MSM in general): You heard right.

The defense rests.

(Thanks again for the generous coverage, Frank.)

By: fp

fp — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 15:16:19 +0000

Yes they can. Thanks “Bruce.” One day corporations and governments and neighborhoods will value freedom of expression and the cultural taboos that keep some great marketing and PR writers blogging pseudonymously will be lifted. On the other hand, the pseudonym thing is a little kinky, like a masque, and there’s something kind of fun in that.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 14:57:36 +0000

as a loyal reader, I’d already become familiar with Mr. Pierce, I just felt like being clever and giving you a hard time, ’cause friends can do that.

By: fp

fp — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 14:55:11 +0000

The room mate herself admits to being a little sententious, so one has the right if not the obligation to take the preceding comment with some lime and a lot of salt. At least she didn’t get any croissant crumbs onthe keyboard while she was typing that.

By: the Roommate

the Roommate — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 14:49:33 +0000

Given the time of night, roommates always have the right to howl. . . And about the NYT, some of us more benighted consumers read it online as a just an electronic version of the paper one, so having only self-referential links may be, in fact, okay. And it certainly is okay from the corporate journalism perspective, to which we would never apply the word “generous”.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 14:30:36 +0000

Update… last night my room mate was howling for me to turn out the light and get in the sack. So I tossed and turned a little because I posted without at least a re-read and some linking. I’m going back in there now to add some links, and I’ll mention here that the bizarre dog lady pic was lifted from RageBoy’s Mystic Bourgeoisie site. The kitty in a helmet came my way via email a few years ago.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 Oct 2024 13:37:57 +0000

thanks for the thoughtful post which illustrates everything good about blogs — good writing, personal voice, gonzo reporting, bizarre pictures, linkage — and some of the drawbacks — cats, Doc Searls references, expressions of disappointment with the New York Times, lack of linkage (i.e. Tony Pierce).

Wish I coulda been there!