Let's see, I've been using an Olympus E-P1 for exactly a month now. Olympus yesterday announced a firmware update for the E-P1, and guess what, I got an email directly from their PR firm to that effect. In 15 years of covering Nikon, the only contact I've had from their PR firm (or in-house PR staff) is when I published the D70 specifications before announcement and they asked me to take them down because "they are wrong" (they weren't). What makes me think that when Nikon introduces their compact APS camera they won't even send me a press release? Oh, I know: despite asking more times than I can count, they've NEVER sent me a press release on anything.
Note that I didn't make any contact with Olympus (I'm not a registered user, either). They obviously found my posts and reacted. And they obviously figured out my email address (how can they not, it's all over this site). I hope that they'll continue to keep me up to date on what they're doing, even if it is through their PR agency.
I've written it before, I'll write it again: Nikon is slowly distancing themselves from all their supporters. If they don't reverse this trend, they'll find it more and more difficult to market and sell their products. The bad news for Nikon is that someone else is going to get both their product and their handling of it with both press and users dead on right pretty soon. That it won't be Nikon says a lot about the current state of the Nikon brand.