Steve Rubel the blog evangelist is taking a bit of a bashing at the moment (well, he is famous, after all :-). First I notice his evangelism on how blogs are the new press releases idea cause a bit of a stir amongst other PR practitioners, and Tom Murphy has retorted with a well worded response.
I agree with Tom. Blogs replace press release?!! As if! Has the spoon replaced the fork? Only for Chavs. I rest my case.
Then there's people like Josh Hallett and Darren Barefoot writing about Steve Rubel pitching his clients inapropriately at a conference... not pretty reading.
And for the record, it's really annoying to keep on seeing PR people blogging about blogging! Why can't people write about PR instead! Up to them I suppose. But I won't bother reading blogs about blogs for much longer. Maybe I'll just send a press release about press releases out to the press. That's why Spin Bunny, The World of High Tech PR and the Lewis chaps are so much more interesting than most of the rest.
Aw schucks Drew - thanks. And agree on the blog boredom - we need a more varied diet.
Posted by: Morgan McLintic | June 28, 2005 at 03:21 PM
Well, Drew, as someone that does write on PR and tries not to write much on blogging, sometimes things just scream to be exposed as attempts at publicity, or just points to be mocked.
Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | June 29, 2005 at 03:10 AM
In which case you might want to see what's being said about Edelman the Polish chappie...
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | June 30, 2005 at 03:04 PM