please empty your brain below

"...damages the image other bloggers are trying to improve"

Hmmmm. I think that one has only to look at Justin's own 'website' to see *why* he's upset. He thinks you're in danger of spoiling his leeching freebie travel-the-world at PR company's expense lifestyle.

Ah well, each to his own. There are always suckers who'll lap up media manipulation.

I only ever get offers from online Casinos to write a guest blog to make my "great" blog "even more interesting" to my readers.

as a blogger I can't think of anything worse to attend than half of these PR fluff things. I just have better things to do with my time. Even considering the fact that I'm unemployed too!

I've got to try and read your blog whilst NOT having my morning tea/coffee.

"I really ought to ask him to write a guest post on the subject."

I keep getting by keyboard wet with brown liquid everytime i laugh mid-swig...

Oh, I wouldn't be too hasty. Have you actually checked that shrubbery lately...?

But perhaps the money is in the shrubbery - did you actually check? Or maybe some local pervert has walked off with it? I think you ought to check with David.

You have written about kittens before, so perhaps there is a kitten-based PR outfit who could legitimately get in touch?

I just think it's boring. We get it - you don't want to commercialise your blog or whatever and PR types are constantly approaching you. But the seemingly endless stream of posts where you publicise your wry responses just seems like a bit of self-congratulatory navel-gazing.

I love your blog and I think it is one of the best (if not THE best) blogs about London (and beyond). I appreciate that you have kept it non-commercial. But really....

Sorry... that last post reads a bit harsher than intended.


I'm pretty sure I left something for you in the shrubbery one dark night early hours recently. In the hope you'd ghost write a blog for me and I won't need to lift a finger and you can be a rude as you like about anyone who requests anything at any time and get paid for it. So long as I remember to leave whatever it was in the shrubbery. The Ghost of Cubic Carbon. Hope you find it.

Oh diddums! My experience of people in PR and marketing is that they have very thick skins and skulls to match.

How I see this.

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dg writes: No need to go that far, Michael.


Hi Justin,

I'm flattered, I made it to be on your blog anyway :-)

The reason I emphasized that they are written by Native English speakers is to explain that my intention is very different than all spammers out there.

I must tell you that guest blogging, if done right , is one of the bloggers best tools.

For the guest , it is just one link but for the blog , this is content , which is the essence of his profession.

Of course filtering this content is very important.

Regardless , I am glad to read you are taking blogging very seriously, real blogs are hard to be found these days.

And no worries , if you dont want guest posting on your blog , thats completely understandable.

Cheers , Tal

Er, Tal, I don't think DG is called Justin. His real name is A Secret.

There seems to be no possibility of a meeting of minds on this topic. Some people just don’t realise how distasteful their efforts are as they try to insinuate commercial activity into every area of our lives.

I'm with DG all the way on this one. Wading through his boring tube-related posts is quite demanding enough, thank you, without the added burden of PR puffery.


I liked the "blogger outreach programme" reference. Endless possibilities for amusement.



DG (and Ian) a heartfelt thanks from an avid reader who appreciates the value of your pricipled stands.

God knows this world is full enough of corporate spin, crap and commercial double speak already.

Justin - Your version of the world is, sadly, the status quo, kindly leave the minority who don't want EVERYTHING to carry a monetary value (and note my use of everything rather than anything - we too have to buy stuff) there is room for both to thrive.

CF


Love the way that Tal perpetuates the sterotype of the clueless PR by clearly not reading or understanding DG's blog (actually misnaming someone who is deliberately anonymous!), before proceeding to admonish London's best and most prolific blogger on how to write blogs. You couldn't make it up.

It's not always a good idea to generalise, but I often find that certain types of people are attracted to certain types of job. If you're built like Mike Tyson, then there's a possibility you'll end up as a bouncer. Spend most of your free time in World Of Warcraft and don't have a girlfriend (and Lara Croft doesn't count)? Plenty of jobs going in IT. And if you're a bit on the vacuous side and wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the face wth a copy of Hello magazine, then PR could be your thing.

What always strikes me about the snippets DG publishes is the total insincerity and dishonesty blindingly apparent in the emails he receives:

"Hi DG, love you're blog, I've been reading it for a while" " etc etc.

The reason I've been reading DG for so many years now is because he's just this guy, you know? The moment I think he's written something because Pippa or Jules has bribed him to, I'll be off quicker than you can say Dasani.

I've seen some comments by bloggers that say they have received well-targeted emails from agencies. Chances are that's just luck and a result of the PR people playing the numbers. After all, there are a very small minority of people who do actually believe that using that pump thing will make their penis substantially bigger in just 14 days or your money back. That's the reason spammers keep doing what they do.

Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for my refund....













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