any freebies given is of the own volition of the company or the person conducting pr. it’s just something like the invitation to make it worth your while to come down and hear what we have to say. what you wanna do later, is up to your journalistic/blogging integrity.

if you want to be endorsed, that’s a different story and probably comes under marketing instead. i mean, everyday, bands and musicians are endorsed by guitar companies to use their products exclusively, but those come under different arrangements. hope that helps make things clearer -) mutual respect for one another is how i see we can maintain good relations in both the comapnies and new media side of things -)

- brian

So is your company working with bloggers too?

and…

no PR is better than bad PR. unless u have a really good recovery plan. =)

Too bad you dont have a Mac, else can pass you that CD that nite at Geek Terminal.

‘startups using blog as a form of communication.’ No wonder you vist bak2u’s blog lah. hee hee

Paddy: I would love to do a review of your phonebak software for SE phones. But you can keep the hugs.

cool insider: Yeap. I agree. In fact, I enjoyed reading blogs by blog-based entrepreneur or startups using blog as a form of communication.

One of my fave is pitstop cafe’s blog.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that one cannot be a blog-based entrepreneur. So long as one declares one interest from the onset and be open about it, I don’t see any issues.