Jimmy mustn't read blogs

If there was any doubt about it, I think it is safe to assume that our favourite CEO, Jim Balsillie, doesn’t care what blogs might be chattering about. If he did, then maybe The Boy Genius Report (“BGR”) wouldn’t have been given a new BlackBerry Bold device for a test drive more than a month ago.

I say that because some of us shareholders are worried about the all-too-cozy appearance of Research In Motion’s relationship with BGR. And to give BGR a Bold even before Rick Segal, of the gosh darn “BlackBerry Partners Fund” itself, can get one…well, that’s just plain silly.

Which is not to say that RIM’s internal and external marketing arms don’t focus on the blogoshpere. It’s just that Jimmy mustn’t be focused on this stuff.

For if he was, Rick would get a Bold, and BGR would be on ice — maybe let things cool off after their market-moving leak of last quarter (see prior post “Boy Genius: PR genius, but a disclosure nightmare part 2” May 6-08).

Or worse, maybe Jimmy just doesn’t read us. Now that would be anything but silly.

MRM