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I wasn't alone. Having read the piece, Brighton-based Harvard Public Relations director <a href="http://open.typepad.com/open/2006/06/uk_pr_blog_drou.html">Anthony Mayfield</a> is drawing up a list of UK PR blogs, which points to blogs by Chartered Institute of Public Relations president <a href="http://prvoice.typepad.com/pr_voice/">Tony Bradley</a>, <a href="http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/niallcook/default.aspx">Niall Cook</a> of the Hill and Knowlton agency, and tech PR boss <a href="http://analystinsight.blogspot.com/">David Rossiter</a>. Not to mention <a href="http://nevon.typepad.com/">Neville Hobson</a>. Or last year's <a href="http://www.globalprblogweek.com/">Global PR Blog Week</a>. Or <a href="http://prblogs.org/about/">PRblogs.org</a>, the network of free blogs for public relations professionals. Links to each site uncovers more lists of lists to similar resources. In fact, PR Week seems to have been taking a bit of a hit from in-the-know PR bloggers of late. Business Blog Consulting, which does exactly as it says on the tin and carries a whole category on this stuff, recently kicked the trade weekly for failing to create waves online by walling stories off to non-subscribers. Ironically, the story that the company's Tris Hussey picked to call the magazine on was a report of a conference speech by Richard Edelman. Edelman of course is CEO of the world's largest independent public relations company and a man credited with "getting it" more than any other in the industry (glance <a href="http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/blog/">his blog</a> for proof). Is PR Week behind the times? Or is the magazine taking an unfair amount of stick from bloggerati who would rather remain on the new-new fringe, rather than accepting that the publication not only has a different rhythm but needs to make its own money?

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My eyebrow raised this week when I read PR Week editor Danny Rogers' assertion in MediaGuardian: "There's a real lack of good PR blogs in the UK at the moment." "Shurely shome mishtake," I thought, as the UK has a growing crop of decent online journals dedicated to analysing the increasing impact of new communications methods on corporate communications, marketing and media.

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