Plagiarism, Blog-Hype, Blog-Trashing Prevalent At OMMA West

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Underscore Marketing President Tom Hespos is out at OMMA West in Hollywwod and has offered up some observations about the first day’s interactive online marketing conference. While Tom heard from many people today eager to jump on the blogging and consumer-generated media business model bandwagon, most of them didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. He also mentioned that the blogging is being unfairly trashed with flawed stats and treated as if it were some sort of braodcast playground waiting to grow up into a “real medium.” In listening to the various presentation, Tom noted much of what he saw seemed to have been lifted from other’s mouths with agency wonks attributing their own names to the content. And finally, Tom realizes he’s been mispronouncing Publicis’ new agency wrong. It’s De-NOO, not DEN-you-oh. The conference concludes Tuesday.

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