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 read more...

  In principle, I thought that the State of Blog Relations survey, which was commissioned by the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRF) and APCO Worldwide to look at the interactions and relationships between public relations (PR) professionals and bloggers was interesting. I especially thought that the disconnect between the two camps was compelling, with just over half of the PR PR executives surveyed agreeing with the statement: Our firm does a good job identifying the specific interests of individual bloggers and sending them relevant information.” However, nearly two-thirds of read more...