Posts Tagged: blogosphere

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17
Dec 09

About online business in Romania

In Romania, we are used to people shouting as hard as they can about their success. They do this, they do that, they just opened a new interactive agency, they’ve just rolled a new amazing campaign…

Most of it is PR bullshit.

And the people who do stuff do not brag about it too much. Just a few lines in a blog post. Or a short minute at a beer. I don’t like to step into the light and talk too much about how i did this and that. I like to do. Those who want to know, they know. Those who care about the Romanian blogosphere know who i am and what i (can) do. The rest are just bystanders.

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23
Dec 08

About the embargo and the news

There are 2 major problems with what Mr. Arrington is saying here.

It sucks when the news gets out at the same time. 20 major blogs, the same news, nothing news. I like techcrunch for the news they bring, the news nobody else has. I don’t like the papers that are reporting the same news, without a personal or a documented angle. It’s just empty news.

PR companies need to take responsibility. And give the news to the guys who matter the most. That is why ZF (leading Romanian financial newspaper) gets all the big news, because people know and admit the power of that paper.

After all, how hard can it be to find 20 sites that are the top players on your niche and build a relationship with their editors? That is how it used to be done. Now, in the age of email, nobody cares.

I am a blogger with a journalism background. I get press from companies i never reported on. They know who i am and i know who they are. And i never wrote about them. But maybe sometimes…

It’s not hard to build a business relationship these days. Send an email, invite the editor out to a drink, get to know some basic things about him and that is it. I have 5 different gifts on my desk from PR people  i worked. Out of obligation? Out of false pretend? I don’t know. All i know is that they cared enough to send me a gift, even if a i am a blogger.

And in Romania that is a lot.

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7
Dec 08

Problem with the .ro blogosphere

Problem with the .ro blogosphereI’ve been blogging since 2005, when the blogs were few and people were eager to read something outsite the crappy journalist/pr press. The door was open so me and a few others just walked in.

Now that blogs are mainstream, I see a lot of the new bloggers that step up and want to be like me (getting cars for test drive, being invited to conferences and television, getting exclusive news and previews). The problem is that they do not have what it takes to be good bloggers (I am speaking about the ones who want to be probloggers, of course, not the guys who write personal blogs). Most of them do not know how to write proper in romanian, most of them do not know how to report news or events. Those who don’t have such problems, have bigger ones. Like not being able to produce opinions. They translate the idea, add a few more details and that is a blog post. No valid opinion, no added value.

But they want to be important.