This article is by Guest Contributor Rick Spence.
In a recent “AIMS”:http://www.aimscanada.com/ Discussion List post (not yet online), “Tema Frank”:http://www.webmysteryshoppers.com/pages/070abou.html said (in part):
bq. Many commentators argue that companies should jump on the blogging bandwagon, but for most companies I think that is bad advice. Let’s face it, how many of us really have something interesting to say (and the skill to write it well) every couple of days? If you delegate the writing to a staff member, how can you be sure that they’ll only write about topics you want aired publicly? But if you restrict them, your blog quickly becomes a boring advertorial, which will either be ignored (best case scenario) or derided publicly.
I agree with most of Tema Frank’s comments about corporate blogging, but not with her conclusion.
Month: August 2005
I’ve been thinking about our “Liberty Village Renamed _Toronto’s Porn Alley_”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2005/08/06/liberty-village-renamed-torontos-porn-alley post. Is it just me or did “Tucows”:http://www.tucowsinc.com/ get off really easy here?
In the “MSNBC version of the Dateline NBC story”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8841299/page/3/, it says _(emphasis mine)_:
bq.. We arrive at the address. *It’s a postal drop – just a little mailbox. It seems like a dead end.* But when we go back to our computer we find there’s another Toronto company affiliated with “Spunkfarm.” This one is called “Python,” and there’s even an address. Maybe the porn mailer is there.
We go to the location, not a mail drop. But it certainly doesn’t look like an office. The space was going to be a Middle Eastern restaurant. *Another dead end.*
*There is one place in Toronto that might help us: It’s called Tucows.* That’s the place that registers those Web site names. It’s what led us to Toronto to begin with.
*The receptionist is happy to look up the name “Spunkfarm” for us. We get another address* – this one very nearby.