For years now, the blog has been viewed as a necessary evil from a PR perspective and a direct channel for bad news traveling at light speed. That’s a fair assessment, but the Internet should be viewed as a boon to another aspect of business: quality control. It used to be there were official critics and official criticisms were published in print, read by subset of subscribers to a specific publication. Now, critics are pretty much everywhere and can publish anywhere, any time.
Is There Such a Thing As a Nice Critic?
Let’s get something straight: Even if necessary and functional towards a desired end, criticism is never nice. Speaking of desired ends, NiceCritic.com allows perturbed coworkers/neighbors/schoolmates to send anonymous email messages like: You might want to consider wearing longer skirts/dresses. Or, maybe a message like this, which I could never, ever imagine a need for under any circumstances:
Google News Slow To Reinstate UN Critic
Inner City Press, a one-man full-time operation with volunteer contributors, should be back on Google News following an anonymous complaint that caused it to be delisted.
YouTube Censors Islam Critic?
At YouTube, You can say pretty much whatever You want, as long as it’s not about Islam. If that’s not true, YouTube user Nick Gisburne begs to differ after his account – his entire account – was deleted for its "inappropriate content." What exactly did he say? Well, nothing really. He let the Koran speak for itself.
Microsoft Critic Mini-mizing Himself
The blogger known as Mini-Microsoft will take a break from the anonymous posting on Microsoft’s internal operations now that the company has revamped its internal review processes.
The Couch Potato Critic
This is an idea I’ve had for a while about a Web business. I don’t know if it’s a good idea – you be the judge. You are free to use this idea because I won’t have the time to use it myself.