what's a beatnik? a nogoodnik? an alcoholnik?

jconli1

SpeedWagon

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

First there is their constant sniping at the Detroit show. They mention how large McCormick Place is in every show update they send to reporters. In the most recent one, they say that MP could now hold the LA, Detroit and New York shows all at once. We get it guys. McCormick Place is a big convention center and the Chicago Auto Show would like to replace the NAIAS as the premier auto show in North America.

Next there is their whining about people who try to wangle press credentials so they can sell press kits and swag on eBay.

From media update #1:
"Please note that these credentials are for working media actually covering the show-what a refreshing concept, huh? Erzatz media trying to weasel their way into the building to bogart the vast arrays of hospitality will not stand the test of the Registration Inquisition and will be denied. (Discovering them and denying the application
is the most fun the media director has all year, to be honest.)"

From media update #2:
"Simply fill out the material online, wait
a few days while the application goes
through the approval process (yes, we
actually look at them and try to weed
out the poseurs, hangers-on and general
neerdowells who always think they can
BS their way into your seat at the news
conference and subsequently steal the
press kit for sale on Ebay. Who needs that?"

If they just counted up the number of literature dealers actively selling automotive press kits on eBay they'd see that there are maybe 2 dozen of them. The Detroit show has almost 7000 credentialed journalists. The Chicago show has 2500. Even if all the active auto lit dealers attend the Chicago show (which they don't), that would mean that 1% of the "journalists" at that show sell press kits. Since some press kit sellers are indeed full time journalists, the number of true scam artists is way too small for Paul Brian to get so worked up about it.

bozoerrebbe

what does JALOPNIK mean??

i gots to know!

wheels OF satan!

Cameron Thirteen

NovaloadMissesPolar

hint: generally not a blog if there is not interaction, then it's just random musings of a bunch of idiots

om nom de plume

BOOYAKASHA!1!!!!!!1!1!

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DoctorNineTenths

DoctorNineTenths

DoctorNineTenths

gadgetfanatic

Bluegoose

yellofury * * * * *

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I'm thinking of doing a blog for 2 girls 1 cup, how does JAPLOPNIK sound?

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Miscellanea

Buckster

6.) Making a splash with your first entry isn't always easy. Forgo the clichéd "this is my blog, I hope you like it" route. Start out the way you mean to continue. Forget promoting your trade show or praising your exhibitors. Why not instead attack a popular local politician in the midst of a Presidential campaign, and suggest that he's half-witted, idle and in need of psychiatric help?
"Barack has a blog... Anyone with half a mind (and I use that term lightly)... and a lot of free time has a blog. They are... the cheapest form of psychotherapy available."
Hey, you did that already. Well done!

7.) Linking to a site isn't self-promotion. In fact, autoblog.com was promoting your site. Doh! Never mind. For a refresher on how the whole web thing works, I suggest your first call be the admirable lecture entitled "The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes," by Ted Stevens.

8.) When you turn off your webcams in a huff, you should also take the "Check out our webcams" message off your news ticker. It's part of that whole left-hand, right-hand coordination thing that's fashionable these days.

Welcome to the blogosphere, and good luck.

al_beaton

BlackIce_GTS

wonkydonky

Cobden

pitchpitch Type-Я

charles_barrett

smokeydog001

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

BartMack

BartMack

no_slushbox

no_slushbox

Armand Bengle

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TheGuinnessTooth

SLR_BlowerMania

charles_barrett

DoctorNineTenths

hwyengr

Shapeshifter

GreenVanMan

#6: don't make your website look like corporate boilerplate, even if it is.

clank-o-tron

rovingardener

Maxichamp

Wonder if that pontiac solstice chick has been fired yet. . . .

Schm is not particularly sure what he is ranting about. . .

Mark Bilek, Internet Director Chicago Auto Show.com

Now for an episode of "When blogging goes bad." All Chicago Auto Show Web cam fans can thank AutoBlog.com. They posted a link to the Chicago Auto Show Web cams and asked visitors to "check out the cams periodically and see if anything of interest is rolling onto the floor. Do a screen grab and send us [them] a tip."

Thanks to your friends at AutoBlog, the Web cams are disabled. It is one thing to leave the cams up for the general public, but it's another when they are used for a Web site's personal promotion. Yea, I got a screen cap for you AutoBlog, it's a big middle-finger salute from all of the Web cam fans of the Chicago Auto Show thanking keeping them in the dark.

PS, we'll turn the cams back on next Wednesday.

autoshowwatcher

monkeyboy04

POLAЯBEEЯ

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

Markstre302

Aside from running their content upside down, they've taken 2 posts to bitch about bitching about embargoes and justifying shutting down the webcams on the off chance that an Autoblog reader might take a screen cap and send it in?

Yeah, way to go, guys.

Mad_Science

Ray Wert

djmolwi

ViergangFuchs

Indiana Bento and the lost Temple of Citroens

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

Maxichamp

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