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What! I was tricked into upvoting this story around the 8th paragraph before I realized that this is nothing but a commercial for a fresh-from-print book. I exp
by marvin 18y ago
What! I was tricked into upvoting this story around the 8th paragraph before I realized that this is nothing but a commercial for a fresh-from-print book. I expected that it was an article discussing the Kamasutra itself.
Call it what you will, but a book review that disguises itself as a genuine news story is dishonest, and I find it very annoying.
- hobbs 18y agohttp://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- josefresco 18y agoExcellent article and thanks for the link. "PR people fear bloggers for the same reason readers like them. And that means there may be a struggle ahead. As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how." That is why TC and Google (who both rely on the traditional PR/Media relationship) are so quick to bash concepts like PayPerPost which is basically what Paul is describing above, PPP provides direct access to the bloggers (no smoke and mirrors)