inCommunicado - eric eggertson

I was tempted to comment on a few of these at length, but decided one line could sum up my thoughts:

• FlackLife - Ford backs down after trying to appease a critic who opposed its ad buy targeted at gays and lesbians.

• Canuckflack - Creatives poach each others’ materials all the time. But what happens when a for-profit company steals some of the top-of-mind awareness of a public service campaign by a non-profit?  In this case, it’s the American Libraries Association  "Read" campaign being hijacked by Aubible.com’s "Don’t Read" ad campaign. Is that over the line?

• The Onion - Parody of a stealth marketer. (courtesy of Colin McKay).

• Donna Papacosta - Interviews by e-mail have their place (no, not job interviews).

• Shel Holtz - The every-occasion greeting card from graphic designer Greg Cliff (humour).

• Ensight - Jeremy Wright’s wild year. First he gets dooced, then he becomes a geek celebrity, is strip searched by a border guard who doesn’t believe anyone could be paid to blog, writes Blog Marketing, launches a blog network and . . . well, it was a pivotal year for him.

• John Wagner - There’s a definite ebb and flow to blogs, and Wagner has seen that "blogging is NOT for everyone, but only for those with a real passion to communicate, to share, to instruct, to be involved.

• Robert Scoble - Based on a one paragraph mention in Scoble’s popular tech blog, and a couple from the Hobson and Holtz pod people, Mutually Inclusive PR shot up (briefly) to 6th place on the PubSub PR List. Why does one link make such a difference? Ask the hundreds of new visitors who checked out this blog this week.