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• Alleged Bias in the SAP Blogger's Corner

  Scoble reports on accusations that the SAP TechEd bloggers are biased . Judy says SAP is confusing bloggers with journalists . At its TechEd event today, SAP made a big point of inviting bloggers to its press and analyst conference . . . [which] were all from companies in SAP’s developer network and included Robert Scoble, now at Podtech. She apparently made this inference because "the bloggers in the pack stuck to softball questions . . . and left the tougher questions to the journalist." Charlie sets the record straight . It has nothing to do with being "part of SAP’s ecosystem and therefore not impartial." The irony, perhaps, is that the reason I haven't asked any "hard" questions is because I'm not part of the ecosystem. In fact, i was discussing this exact issue with Mike last night. Neither of us are really that entrenched in the enterprise software world and neither of us are particular familiar with SAP. Both of us appreciate the access and exposure we've gotten despite not being... Posted Sep 13 2006, 03:49 PM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: SAPTechEd2006, Blogging, Enterprise