Newspapers have been shedding their arts reporting for decades, relegating reviews to dispensable supplements and buried middle-pages. Depressing reports such as last week’s piece in the Columbia Journalism Review on the disappearance of full-time arts staffers are a familiar sight. If the professional reviewer is an endangered species then the rise of the blogging geek…
Great quote from a well-known FT scribbler, his identity is anonymous to save his blushes. “Whenever some PR geek says, “Oh, I must write a blog about…” I feel it is the same as someone saying pop round sometime to see my holiday snaps “
Over the last three days a baleen of PR bloggers have added their voices to the debate kicked off by the Wired Editor, Chris Anderson. His tirade against lazy PRs is reported in The New York Times which ran an article thick with PR’s coughing up sound bites http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/ technology/05flacks.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin I fear a few egos…
I joined (late) a motley crew of bloggers who had decamped to a North London eatery the other night, gathered together by “Don’t Panic” to twitter on the subject of social networking. The posse included Stuart Bruce – Wolfstar http://www.stuartbruce.biz/ Simon Collister – Edelman http://simoncollister.typepad.com/ Stephen Davies – Webitpr http://www.prblogger.com/ Ian Delaney – NMK http://twopointouch.com/…