Following is the first paragraph or so of an email pitch I just got from an employee at one of the five largest PR firms in the world. I have liberally edited the email to protect the identity of the client, PR firm and specific person responsible. Changed stuff is in caps.

Hello,

I know that your blog is geared toward technology and general information. However [CAR COMPANY] has a program where they are [DOING GOOD THINGS]. Do you think that your readers would be intrested in learning about the program? If so you can insert the following infomation into a blogg.

What followed was a press release.

I don’t even know where to start.

• Three typos in one paragraph?
• Should people who can’t spell “blogg” really be paid to do “bloggger” outreach?
• Is The Bivings Report really about “general” information? I had no idea. Good to know.
• How does one “insert” a press release into a “blogg”?

The web is both a huge challenge and opportunity for practitioners of traditional public relations. As Mark Rose writes in this piece, “Big PR agencies are like super tankers; they are set on their course and they take a super effort to navigate a new direction.”

By the time some of these mammoth firms figure things out we’ll have all already moved on to the next thing.

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