A few months back, Flight International, one of our most successful publishing divisions, hired a well-known blogging in the aerospace industry, Jon Ostrower aka Flightblogger, to come blog for us. And it's been a great success. He's by far the most trafficked blogger in that market, and is regularly vying for the position of most popular blog we have with the New Scientist blogs. So, trebles all round in RBI's palatial blogging HQ? Well, pretty much, to be honest.
However, one of the team just stumbled over something rather interesting: Flightbloggercritic. Essentially, a one post blog, the self-proclaimed critic rails against Ostrower's ways of working:
Besides being irked by the fact that flightblogger doesn't see the need to disclose his "sources", nor will he ever, (so why is it we believe what he's putting out there?), I'm amazed that Boeing isn't doing "damage control" (which might be a good indication the info is accurate or has been "placed") and more flabberghasted that it has someone running around taking pictures and sending off potentially damaging information in a secure facility.That first sentence there raises the possibility that the flightblogger critic may actually be an anonymous journalist somewhere within the team, annoyed at the attention given to a non-journalist...
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February 8, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply
I'm not sure I get it. Seems like a troll to me.
February 10, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply
There's certainly a trollish aspect to it, but the thing that struck me as interesting about it was that it could certainly be a disgruntled journalist in our employ, who has (rather ironically) turned to blogging to criticise a blogger.
On the other hand, it could also be a competitor.