How PR Professionals Can Participate in New Media

May 17, 2007

Below are a series of support documents for the conference talk I’m moderating tomorrow entitled “How PR Professionals Can Participate in New Media.” The talk is for an event sponsored by the North Pacific District of the PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) entitled “The Golden Gateway to the Global Village.” The main document, “How […]

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Steve Jobs talks the talk, but Jeff Bezos walks the walk

May 17, 2007

So with all of Steve Jobs’ talk about wanting to offer DRM (digital rights management) free music, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com just stepped in and announced he’s going to do it. Kudos to Amazon.com which has similar general consumer audience demographics as Apple iTunes. I’ll be interested to see the infrastructure that they build and […]

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The Blogosphere vs. the SEC

May 17, 2007

Yesterday’s Apple stock dip quelled any belief that the blogosphere can influence markets. The blogosphere is a market of influencers of varying degrees of influence. The number one influencer/number one blog is Engadget (according to current Technorati popularity statistics). What happened yesterday is Engadget received an internal Apple email that said the iPhone’s release would […]

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You link me and I link you

May 16, 2007

UPDATE: I am no longer participating in this link exchange. Please only favorite my site if you want to favorite my site. I am not offering reciprocal links solely to do a link exchange. This was an interesting experiment, but I have discovered that I would have to link to hundreds and receive hundreds of […]

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I dare you to watch

May 16, 2007

Mental Floss has a post with photos and video of couples choosing a Star Wars or Star Trek themed wedding. Great pictures and photos, but I must say this “First Bride and Groom Light Saber Battle” just pushed it over the top for me. I had a hard time watching. Can you make it through? […]

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Will Microsoft take the same road SCO paved?

May 15, 2007

If you remember SCO went on a huge “how fast can we ruin our brand” campaign a few years ago with its lawsuit against IBM claiming many lines of code in IBM’s donated version of Linux violated the patents it had in its version of UNIX. Many are pointing to that case as being similiar […]

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Transit Tool-HopStop

May 15, 2007

TechCrunch has a story about HopStop, a cool transit planning tool that helps with San Franciscans plan their MUNI misery. Most of us have been relying on 511.org for minimizing the 30 minute waits for MUNI buses. I look to TechCrunch to break new tools, but fellow blogger David Berkowitz says he’s been using it […]

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Clashing worlds: Wal-Mart's deal with Skype

May 14, 2007

GMSV (Good Morning Silicon Valley) has a great post today about how certain events become key turning points in Internet’s development. The article points to the retail relationship Wal-Mart just announced with Skype. They’re going to be reselling $20 Skype cards along the Web cams and computer microphone headsets. In addition, online dollars spent purchasing […]

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Ego grows the Internet

May 14, 2007

This is a conversation video on the fourth principle in “The 12 Principles of New Media” entitled “Ego grows the Internet” and it discusses the need to create playgrounds and environments for users to self express. See the summary and transcript.

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Wait, Zune's wi-fi could actually get some use

May 10, 2007

Just out on Engadget’s site. It looks like the Zune is going to get a firmware upgrade to be able to use the built-in wi-fi to actually, get this, CONNECT TO THE INTERNET. Before, the only use of the wi-fi was to connect to other Zunes. Meaning, the only way you could use the Zune’s […]

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