Blog World Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
I agree with much of Stowe Boyd says in his post about PR Spam but I am going to be the devils advocate here and I am hoping we can agree on what I am about to say. If you are a professional journalist, or editor covering a particular ...
Scatterbox by Steven Silvers (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Wired Magazine's editor might have started a whole new fad when he listed the companies whose publicists and marketers are blocked from his inbox. I've seen a few of these flack-and-hack blacklists since then, the latest coming from Lifehacker editor...
Meryl.net (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Lots of PR talk hitting the scene as of late as PR peeps and bloggers argue about PR spamming, blacklists, and doing PR pitches right. Just the messenger trying to collect them all in one spot. I do both sides of the PR biz… receiving-end and PR’ing end. Advice, Arguments, Debates, and Articles [...]
Marketing Profs Daily Fix (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani ignited a bit of a firestorm over the weekend when she tweeted that she was launching a wiki to blacklist PR firms that send her "irrelevant and unsolicited"' pitches. Some PR bloggers then fired back that maybe it was bloggers that should be blacklisted. Geoff Livingston blogged that : "I don't feel bad for reporters and A-List bloggers who get this kind of attention....
Marketing Begins At Home (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Every year the New York City Press Corps lampoon the shenanigans of New York’s political elite at the Inner Circle Dinner. You may remember the pictures of Rudy G in a dress. What I remember most are the lyrics of the closing number. The assembled journalists address the audience of New York’s greatest movers and [...]
Communication Overtones (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I was talking to a good friend on the phone today about the dustup with public relations professionals and Gina Trapani, of Lifehacker, who has launched a PR Spammers blacklist . Of course, this isn't the first blogger who has been (rightly) disgusted with the overwhelming number of spammy pitches from people hawking their wares. And even today, Peter Shankman , who recently launched Help A Reporter...
PR Communications (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Gina Trapani's wiki blacklisting PR companies for spamming her personal email address has produced several reactions in the community from apologies, to retribution and agreement. The incident has brought a few issues bubbling to the surface for me. In Jason...
Getting Ink (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
There was all kinds of kerfuffle in blogland this week when tech journalist Matt Haughey and blogger Gina Trapani admitted that they've started filtering and block deleting emails from certain PR agencies and domains. Well, Gina has actually set up...
The Intuitive Life Business Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
My friend Rick Calvert of Blogworld Expo posted a note last night asking Should bloggers blacklist PR firms? His starting point for his article is an earlier note by Stowe Boyd, The Growing Backlash against PR, Spam and the Rationale for MicroPR . He in turn points to Gina Trapani, who has created a PR Spammers Wiki , where "she and others can publicly 'out' PR firms that are spamming bloggers or...
PR Squared (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The blacklisting of PR agencies by respected media contacts like WIRED's Chris Anderson and Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani has yet to “wake up” the industry. Oh, we wring our hands. And those of us who bother to listen in the first...
