Monday, February 07, 2005

Source comes up with own semantics for public bloggability of e-mail Here is an interesting development in my e-mail. Apparently aware that anything sent to me via e-mail might be fair game for publication in my blog, a source who shall so far remain nameless sent me an e-mail with the following text at the bottom: this email is: [ ] blogable [ x ] ask first [ ] private How interesting is that? In terms of specs for JOTS, this clearly points to the need to establish some sort of preferences that can be applied to e-mails on both a global basis (for all e-mails from a source) and on a per-transmission basis (that overrides the global preference). 5:37:48 PM    comment []

"Spokesperson" is SOP for Microsoft's PR Counsel In my experience, it has been standard operating procedure for any checked facts on stories regarding Microsoft to be anonymously attributed to "spokesperson" when the person fielding the inquiry works for one of Microsoft's public relations firms such as Waggener-Edstrom or Fleischman-Hillard.  When a Microsoft employee fields such an inquiry, the answer has always been attributable to that person.  As you can see in a recent blog entry of mine, such attribution is made.  I'm fairly certain this is a Microsoft imposed policy.  This raises some issues for the JOTS specification.  There should be a way that such policies can be set as preferences in a way that automatically includes a short document like this as the part of a  full disclosure or transparency statement for any given story.  5:00:18 PM    comment []