SiliconValley.com’s star blogger Dan Gillmor has an interesting post here on an email he got from a PR “professional” promoting a service to “Manage and Monitor Digital Influencers.” Dan points out, rightly, that one doesn’t “manage” bloggers, one engages with them. A commenter calling himself “Flackboy Kevin” defends the PR guy and goes on to further slag bloggers. A long debate in the comments ensues. Via Adrants, where Steve Hall also comments on the subject.
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Åsk Wappling at Adland and Tig Tillinghast at MarketingVox also weigh in.
Dan Gillmor: Fear of Bloggers in Business and Journalism
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Comment by david — July 9, 2005 @ 6:02 am