Mike, you are free to read whatever you find interesting – and so it’s anyone else. That’s not for me to judge. What I want is to maintain a list of people blogging about PR and communication; and I don’t think someone who is hiding behind a blog/character in order to insult people should be in this list. That’s all.

I hope you make the distinction between the list and what we label as -for a lack of a better term- the PR blogosphere. Who is -or not- a PR blogger is decided not only by how we identify ourselves, but also by how our readers think about us; there’s no institution giving “PR blogger” accreditations.

So, no worries: there’s enough real estate on the web for all of us – so others can play without the interference of PR bloggers’ clique. Not being in the list is not going to prevent Strumpette from being a thought leader on PR-related “relevant and timely issues,” or by being considered a “top PR blogger.”

For what it’s worth, I think it’s risky to treat PR bloggers as a monolithic group. It’s not like that, IMO: it’s just people writing, more or less, about the same topics, related to new media, PR and communication. Some of them know each other personally; most don’t. Some people link to other people’s postings – others don’t. There are no barriers of entry in this group – other than the fact that people’s time and attention are already overstretched.