There seems to be some sort of desperation going on where brands make a scramble to try to control everything that’s said about them online. Maybe this has been advised by the old-school PR agencies. (…)

It would be great to see brands just concentrating on building great stuff instead of controlling what people say when they say brands make bad stuff. Here’s an idea: why doesn’t your company declare that says it never manipulates consumer comments online, nor write statements and reviews as if it were a customer.

PSFK: Wikipedia Tells PR Agencies To Get Lost