Two bad examples of online PR are circulating.
One was a crude attempt to contribute a guest article to Mitch Kapor’s respected blog, an offer which went to several other opinion formers. Thanks to G2Blog for the link. Dan Gillmor offers a calm perspective on this, as ever.
The other was the PR attempt to promote a band by posing as a nine-year-old fan, recorded in Media Guardian. Thanks to PR Opinions for this.
Saw this coming…I just recently wrote about this on my blog and, although some people don’t think that PR people will ever really get blogs, I think they eventually will and then the dynamic of the medium (e.g. the way people view the Internet) will change.