Pitch.Me Del.icio.usly

Nick Denton's on to a killer idea. He is guest blogging this week on his company's travel blog and he is asking readers to send him links via del.icio.us.

Meanwhile, I am getting overwhelmed with reader mail. Don't get me wrong, I love hearing from you, but many of these are just link/PR pitches. I am going to try this approach. I ask from here on in that you please pitch me only via del.icio.us unless I already correspond regularly with you. I am doing this not only to cut down my mail but to make the PR pitching process transparent so that everyone can see what I blog/don't blog. This will hopefully make those who pitch me better at what they do.

So, if you want me to take a look at something to link/comment on, please post it to del.icio.us with the tag "micropersuasion" and include your pitch in the extended entry. Here's how to use del.icio.us.

Bonus Nick Denton link -IWantMedia interviews Gawker Media Managing Editor Lockhart Steele who reveals, among lots of other things, that Nick Denton's company is profitable and that it plans to take on Matt Drudge with a tabloid blog.

Comments

[Marco]

Stve
idea is nothing new.
Check Reblog Blog, for example, is already doing it since december 2004 :
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2004/12/how_to_submit_to_the_eyebeam_reb.html

Marco :)

[bruno]

Steve, seems like you're opening up the 'micropersuasion' tag on del.icio.us to a whole lot of spam. Are you worried about that?

[Steve Rubel]

Bruno, better there than in my inbox.

[Randy Charles Morin]

Steve, keep us inform as to whether this reduces directly emailed pitches.

[bruno]

I see that, it's better than having pitches cluttering up your inbox. But what I'm thinking is that the 'micropersuasion' tag is part of your brand, so by using it as a vehicle to communicate with people, you'll be altering how it represents you. So the tag risks losing it's relevance to the Micropersuasion blog when it gets overrun by pitches.
Just a thought.

[Dennis Howlett]

Hate to put a damper on this but isn't this link whoring by another name or is it link begging? Never quite sure. The upside of course is that you encourage folk to use a 'standard' tag - in this case 'micropersuasion.'

And...if you can't get to email, will del.icio.us provide a better option?

BTW - IMHO, Nick's playing on his uber status to take the lazy way out - but with an empire to run and time pressures of the kind he must have to manage, who can blame him?