David Porter said on July 27, 2006 at 09:37 AM

It’s ok Debbie.  You are well respected.

Amanda Chapel said on July 27, 2006 at 04:50 PM

Debbie,

What does that even mean?  As I asked Leo in the prior post, why do you “PR Pros” always sink to ad hominem arguments.  Are your beliefs that weak?  Sure looks that way.

- Amanda

Britton Manasco said on July 27, 2006 at 06:41 PM

Having spent some time backgrounding myself on this controversy, it seems to me that you, Debbie, were a non-combatant who got strafed by self-hating terrorists wearing black hoods.

And fanatical behavior is everywhere to be found these days. The “moderate majority” is mostly lurking on the blogosphere at this point (that, or they are unaware of it altogether).

The field of conversation seems to be dominated by self-absorbed extremists—of both the Strumpette and Clue-Train varieties. The extremism, quite obviously, weakens their powers of analysis. After all, corporate blogging—like most marketing trends—will go through a classic “hype cycle”; it will not burst like a tech bubble. (Not nearly enough money in this stuff to make that absurd analogy).

Then again, the self-styled “revolutionaries” who write “open letters” to folks like Michael Dell deserve a little comeuppance. The soft-porn jihadis at Strumpette have provided that in spades. So can we move on now? Or are we all going to just strap on explosives and dash off into oblivion?

Corporate blogging will probably take a hit pretty soon (if it hasn’t already), but then it will reemerge—as any good Gartner analyst can tell you—on the “slope of enlightenment.”

Dennis said on July 29, 2006 at 02:30 PM

love the high road - nice job.

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