Comments on: Say it ain’t so, Joe (in several languages) http://robcottingham.ca/2006/04/say-it-aint-so-joe-in-several-languages/ Social media enabler | Noise to Signal cartoonist | Speaker and comic Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rob http://robcottingham.ca/2006/04/say-it-aint-so-joe-in-several-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-2487 Rob Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:47:43 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060425/say-it-aint-so-joe-in-several-languages/#comment-2487 There's <em>definitely</em> such a thing as bad PR. Ask the folks at Kryptonite about Bic pens sometime. :) Just being talked about, in and of itself, isn't necessarily a good thing. Otherwise political campaigns would never put the time and money they do into negative ads. Take the case you mention <a href="http://islandofdoubt.blogspot.com/2006/04/no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity.html" rel="nofollow">on your blog</a>, the Harper government's hamfisted attempt to muzzle one of their own scientists by ordering him to stay away from his own book launch. It was, as you say, spectacular PR for the scientist. But it was godawful PR for the Conservatives. There’s definitely such a thing as bad PR. Ask the folks at Kryptonite about Bic pens sometime. :)

Just being talked about, in and of itself, isn’t necessarily a good thing. Otherwise political campaigns would never put the time and money they do into negative ads.

Take the case you mention on your blog, the Harper government’s hamfisted attempt to muzzle one of their own scientists by ordering him to stay away from his own book launch. It was, as you say, spectacular PR for the scientist. But it was godawful PR for the Conservatives.

]]> By: James Hrynyshyn http://robcottingham.ca/2006/04/say-it-aint-so-joe-in-several-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 James Hrynyshyn Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:01:11 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060425/say-it-aint-so-joe-in-several-languages/#comment-2485 I think you're missing the bigger picture. Rob. Sure some of the candidates are betraying a lack of appreciation for the power of the internet, while others show their naivete about the same, but in both cases, their sites are getting mentioned by people like you. In other words, they're getting some free publicity. Proving once again, that there's no such thing as bad PR. There's a related example of this familiar phenomenon on my blog at islandofdoubt.net I think you’re missing the bigger picture. Rob. Sure some of the candidates are betraying a lack of appreciation for the power of the internet, while others show their naivete about the same, but in both cases, their sites are getting mentioned by people like you. In other words, they’re getting some free publicity. Proving once again, that there’s no such thing as bad PR.

There’s a related example of this familiar phenomenon on my blog at islandofdoubt.net

]]>