Your favourite advertising magazine is now a blog June 26, 2006
Posted by Farrukh Naeem at copywriterjournalist.com in : Advertising , 7commentsWhy wait for a month for your advertising industry gossip and scoops? Why wait a week? Why wait a couple of days even? The handful of advertising and marketing bloggers now have company. Our favourite industry titles are exploring blogosphere – and it’s a good thing for all of us I think.
Campaign Middle East staff is posting stuff on the Campaign blog. And with two Tim’s and Richard keeping the blog active, this one’s surely going to be fun. I await the posts by ‘The Spin’, that’s the part I never miss in the print edition, nasty me. Tim Burrowes had posted prompt Cannes snippets the past few days, experimenting with Cannes puns – and officially announced the Campaign blog in the yesterday’s Campaign. Your truly had already spotted the action before the announcement as you can see in my previous post. Good stuff.
Communicate has been blogging for some time now. The first entry I see in Communicate’s blog dates back to April, so they’ve been the ones to catch on early. But, the last entry was made on June 8. It’d be nice to see Mr (or Ms?) CommunicateModerator posting more frequently. C’mon, my friends at Communicate, your print edition is good – let’s see that happening in the blog too!
The Strategiy.com team is aggregating RSS feeds of advertising blogs which is a good idea to keep the Strategiy blog active. Also, there are six contributors on this blog and three guest contributors, which includes me, thanks to Ashwin Salian of Strategiy.com. My blog has a partial RSS feed on Strategiy. I am still exploring how effective RSS is for bloggers.
Now there’s ADvocate of the IAA which brings in news from the advertising industry – are they going to have a blog? Or do they already have one? Gotta find out.
All this reminds me of a really punny (eek!) line I saw one of these days. It said “Who let the blogs out?” I wish I had written that, even though puns usually give me the creeps – but due credit to the person who wrote this – let’s make a song out of it, an ad jingle if you may 
It’s a blog crazy world out here in the UAE. Join in.
