Briefs, Er, I Mean News

Looks like Big Business over in the US is preparing to sic the power of PR on bloggers.

(Via BoingBoing): Popular Silicon Valley blogger Dan Gillmor received a PR pitch that contained some freaky insight into The Empire's (read PR and oldschool journos) take on the new Rebel Alliance (read bloggers). Here's a quote:

"(PR client) is working with F1000 companies who are using our services to Manage and Monitor Digital Influencers (such as blogs, message boards, user groups, complaint sites, etc.) as an intelligence and threat awareness tool. (Person's name), CEO could talk to you about 'What F1000 Companies are doing to take action against bloggers' and 'How companies are taking steps to protect their corporate reputations from bloggers/digital influencers.'"

If you surf over to Dan's site, do read the comments. They're very enlightening. So what happened to discourse with these bloggers, instead of planning active "action" against them? Most of us are human, last I checked.

On a totally unrelated note, Nintendo is apparently suing softcore website Suicide Girls* for mentioning several of its products in a feature on the site. They're in the middle of clearing things up but clicking on the link will take you a transcript of Nintendo's letter on the site. Pretty crazy stuff.

Anyway, I'm a bit pissed now because someone at work didn't do their job right, I have to clean it up, and the documents I sent to myself have YET to arrive (thank you oh so much, you stupid university network) so I'll bid everyone a slightly tepid adieu.

Ta!

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*NSFW - or in layman's terms, Not Safe For Work. Click at your own risk.