Day: April 7, 2005

Pete Shinbach asks the question: “Why are PR bloggers so anal?”.

It’s a valid question….

“Why are PR bloggers so obsessed with blogging? I was thinking about this the other day when I noticed that just about every PR blog post I saw was about blogging. I use two newsreaders — one that just scoops up everything and one that’s set to be a tad more discriminating.”

It’s something I discussed the other day. There is a disproportionate amount of blogging about blogging among the PR community.

I include myself in that.

In my own case I think it’s laziness.  Limited time, RSS, loads of online content equals disproportionate volumes of posting on blogs.  The man we should be taking the lead from of course is Jim Horton, who primarily posts pure PR and his posts are both interesting and challenging. [Mr. Edelman also deserves an honorable mention]

So, I am going to make an effort on this front. I’m not mad on the whole blog echo chamber in any case.  I’ll still cover blogging when it’s relevant, but will make an effort to extend beyond the subject where possible.

Maybe I’ll put my RSS reader down for a couple of days and invest some of that saved time into trying to enable my TrackBack system for the fifth time…

 

Well well well, UK PR gossip mongerer Spin Bunny* has been shut down. I’m not involved in the UK PR scene but I must admit I enjoyed Spin Bunny’s critical reviews of the various goings on.

The sad thing is that this was inevitable.  Spin Bunny was making fun of the world’s most control-centric business, eventually one of the firms was going to take action and as usual they’ve used the legal system to cloak their identity.

More from DrewB, Neville Hobson, Stuart Bruce and the Bunny’s most amusing online adversary Chris Lewis – at least Chris engaged in dialogue unlike others I could mention.

* Don’t fret if the link doesn’t work, for some reason I could never get access to the site via the Web only through bloglines or my RSS reader.