I had to chuckle reading this from Scoble:

Tech blogging has become way too controlled by PR agents. You might not realize it, but the top blogs are contacted by PR folks dozens of times per day. This is why you'€™ll see 15 stories all appear on Techmeme at the same time. All with the same news. Only a few of whom slow down to ask "€œis this really useful."

That has less to do with the PR guys than it has to do with how the A-Listers see themselves. There's this lovely action you can take when getting an emailed pitch: the delete key. Call it spam often enough, and your email client will stop showing it to you. The same kind of thing works with calls - I get people trying to send me free subscriptions to various magazines all the time - I find that saying "no" works well enough, followed by a "click".

Some of these people simply need to learn the value of "no", or "I'm not interested". You only end up being a dishrag for other people if you allow it to happen.

Oh, and this is just hilarious:

So, off I go to FriendFeed and Twitter where there are real people who don’t care about the business but who are just looking to use technology to have more fun, be more productive, or do something more interesting with their lives.

I get tons of "so and so is following you" mails from Twitter (mind you, I only follow 100 people). Most of them are spammers. With the volume of people Scoble has on Twitter, how many of those spams do you think he gets? I'm reminded of the old Pogo quote: "We have met the enemy, and he is us".

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