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	Phil's Blogservations Monday, October 10, 2005 Posted by philgomes 5:04 PM Well... Okay... Just A Second... Well... Okay... Just A Second... Thanks, Media Orchard — your post gave me a great laugh — but I think I need to be clearer about what my point was. I could repeat myself, or I can just paste here what I put on Constantin's blog (additional emphasis added): I appreciate that journalism is, in many ways, the art of compression and that business journalism can (and often must!) deal in very broad strokes. One manifestation of this is a need to seek out "who's number one". If there's one thing business journalism likes, it's a horserace, and Steve Rubel is the most visible by far. Of course, like any such approach, a degree of richness is lost. In this particular instance, though, it really did come down to Stephen Baker's word choice. Is my own post maybe a bit self-promotional? Perhaps. Some people in our profession do it several times a day and get a free pass, so I should be allowed some small indulgence. All that I'm saying is that I've had my hand in it a while, though with some bumps and false-starts along the way. (Being early often feels a lot like being wrong. I have stories... And scars.) I also wanted to give props to some the folks who have steadily and quietly offered thoughtful PR-related discourse. 'Nuff said. I'm not trying to get all Richard-"GNU-Linux"-Stallman about this, but the fact is that rich discussion in our profession has gone on for some time. And I'm not really calling out BusinessWeek for missing this. To do so would be almost as silly as chiding them for running that Jarvis-vs-Dell piece nine weeks after Jarvis' first post. It takes some amount of visibility to crest the radar of a publication like BusinessWeek — I once likened it to seeking a date with Salma Hayek — and, to tell you the truth, raw visibility has never been the raison d'etre of this blog. Before we all start worrying too much about whether I was the first PR person to set up a blog, let's allow this percolate a little bit and see what other links come in. (I really, really doubt I was the "first". I'll settle for "very, very early".) This does remind me... Before I set up a blog, I tried to have a regularly updated site feature called "ePRattle", which was a sloppy acronym for "Elevating the Public Relations Art Through Thoughtful Learning and Education". Rather than a "blog", I would edit the HTML as I found interesting stuff and FTP the page to the site — "Stone knives and bearskins", as Mr. Spock once said. However, between work and home, version control became a problem, to say nothing of the company firewall. (Some days it would let me through, other days not. Strange.) Blogger.Com helped solve a practical matter, as it turned out. In any case, back to work. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.