PR Industry Still Slow to Adapt to the Blog World

I am clearing out my Gmail box and uncovered a few sure signs that the PR industry is slow to learn the ways of the blogosphere. characters from Popeye to protect the innocent... Dear Steve, A group of some of the spinach industry's leading vendors today announced Bluto, a new open source community to provide a platform for customers to deploy open standards based spinach. Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy, Popeye, Shorteye, The Sea Hag, Eugene the Jeep and Poopdeck Pappy plan to develop a common spinach management platform that will give customers greater flexibility in the way they manage their spinach environments. I respect them for trying and am thankful they didn't pick up the phone to call me. All I can do is be helpful. As Steve Baker received from the Bacons media directory team. Ahh it's a good day for the PR industry. Go team! On a serious note, I didn't forget about my recent Reader Comments... Senior Vice President with Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.