November 18, 2005
Just to Show …
Posted by Kevin | Print This Article
… that I’m not totally anti-TypePad, in spite of my venting against their recent performance problems, I think their response here is perfectly acceptable, and pretty much dead-on:
“Blogging is a lot like the game of telephone. We can expect that as more people link and offer commentary, the original message or facts can get distorted. I have to constantly defend blogging because of this reason.”
What happened: Jeremy Zawodny gets an email from a PR firm pitching a product — just happens to be the same firm that works with TypePad’s parent — that’s an example of sloppy PR and poor targeting, sure, but it’s no reason to get all worked up.
In this case, it would have been a lot quicker to hit the delete button on the email than to rage about it, and then somehow blame SixApart for the actions of a firm they happen to use.
If your blog gets any kind of notoriety, you’re going to get contacted by vendors and PR firms hoping for a mention, and sometimes they’ll be inappropriately targeted. Believe it or not, I get them occasionally, too — I just delete them.
(Link from the Blog Herald, which is always a fun read but definitely has a vendetta against SixApart.)
Definitely appreciate the balance here, and the savviness about how much to trust various sources. Makes it even easier to focus on the legitimate criticisms that we’d like to address.