"Hey buddy, I'm having some trouble with my site. Mind writing a blog post for me?"
More realistically, though, he could've found some PR person after seeing the fallout from his own attempts to calm the storm. If he sticks with it, that would actually be quite smart of him.
what are the alternatives ? that guy seems to be a company owner and the registrant of the domain, ie. basically the guy _is_ the company :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890546