My friend John Haydon shared a link with me to a video by Youtube user italktosnakes (Kristina Horner). It’s a video response to another Youtube user, nerimon (Alex Day). In both the videos, each discuss the merits of being paid to advertise products on their Youtube channels. What’s interesting is their take on how companies are approaching this. Kristina praises Ford for its Fiesta initiative (which she’s part of) while Sanyo’s “insert here” example by Alex shows a company still…

So there’s been plenty written about why bloggers hate PR people. From lazy pitches to not knowing names and audience, there’s a veritable mish-mash of scorn poured on us PR nuisances from a lot of bloggers. And, yes, some of it is warranted and trust me, I’m the first to call out bad PR practices. But you know that just like anything, there’s always a flip side. Here’s an example. I was speaking with a very good friend of mine…