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Denton is slashing away at Valleywag once again, this time its the door for Jackson West, Nicholas Carlson and Melissa Gira Grant. Citing the pending economic doom, Denton has stated he is going into “disaster planning”. I enjoyed all these writers but must say my interest in the site was already waining.

David Merman Scott, blogger and author of The new rules of marketing & PR wrote a post called, “Top 5 corporate blogging mistakes and how to avoid them,” where he gave his take on the worst mistakes people make on their company blogs. 1. Start a blog without first following other similar blogs (and commenting on them) 2.

As time goes on and more people start to read my site (welcome!) I’m receiving more and more pitches from firms and other PR agencies. That’s fine with me - I’m in the business and I appreciate why pitching is necessary. Unfortunately, many (most) of the pitches I receive are the kind of pitches that give our industry a bad name.

Reading forum posts on Forrester Discussions today I noticed one of the participants had suggested that Tweeting a blog post was something that would make them more likely to un-follow a twitter account. I’d wondered what percentage of people thought tweeting a blog post was a good idea or not, and asked this question on Twitter.

Obsessable is a new gadget and technology website covering mobile, photography, home audio video, computers and video games. Check out the site and follow them on Twitter and Friendfeed. The website is the first property launched off the new Crowd Fusion platform.

Fantastic article on how to use Twitter by David Risley, CEO of PCMech, as featured in Steve Kayser’s great Cincom Expert Access newsletter. Steve also added a new expert to the roster, David Henderson, who I think is just a brilliant man and coming out with a new book as well.

The New York Times just picked up syndication rights for several great tech blogs including VentureBeat, GigaOM and RWW. The content will be included as part the upcoming new technology section. Additionally the Times will expand its TimesPeople feature across more of the news website.

For the past few weeks, the blogosphere has been home to a dynamic conversation about the necessity of public relations. I know this happens every now and then: someone says that hiring a PR shop is useless, and we in the profession come together to defend our honor.

For the past few weeks, the blogosphere has been home to a dynamic conversation about the necessity of public relations. I know this happens every now and then: someone says that hiring a PR shop is useless, and we in the profession come together to defend our honor.

Here are a few more pitches that illustrate the points we've been discussing in the blogger relations series.  Later this week, we'll take a look at the new incumbent for crappiest pitch ever. Literally. --- Um, no I write about marketing, blogger and public relations and social media. On a blog.