“I am a tenured professor of journalism, I can do whatever the fuck I want,” said Jay Rosen (right), NYU tenured professor of journalism. Rosen was speaking at the New York Social Media Club meeting, at Edelman Worldwide New York headquarters, last Tuesday.
Rosen was explaining why mainstream media would never undertake his current project of “Pro-Am” journalism fittingly called Assignment Zero. [...]
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10:04 AM: I go to the bathroom and realize there is no toilet paper 10:08 AM: I steal toilet paper from Starbuck’s (shhh, don’t tell). 10:12 AM: I am back in bathroom and … do you really want to know what I do? Did you know that Steve Rubel went to bed at 10:02 PM [...]
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Coming next Monday, April 2, in-depth interview with Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman Worldwide, the world’s largest independent public relations firm.
Edelman’s Me2Revolution is the big first mover and widely acknowledged PR agency leader in “social media” (we’ll call it that until a better term evolves). The Me2Revolution has been a semi-secretive skunk works that has taken serious hits for [...]
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Posted in Blog news, News on Mar 23rd, 2007 5 Comments »
Mainstream media (MSM) is having a grand old time beating up on bloggers these days. The catalyst is ”The Cult of the Amateur,” a book due out in June (great pre-launch book publicity here, by the way), that is giving MSM journalists a platform to condemn all bloggers as morons, idiots and worse, amateurs. Andrew Keen, the author of The Cult, [...]
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Tuesday morning Mr. D went into the vet for the operation to insert a feeding tube. He had a 50/50 chance, the Vet said, and she gave us the option of ending it. We wouldn’t do it, of course, and hoped that Mr. Darcy, despite his very Maine Coon-ish gentle nature, would be a fighter (see [...]
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We don’t know if Mr. Darcy will make it. He is still jaundiced and shows signs of kidney failure. He needs to be force fed in small increments every half hour. Monday we have to make a decision about inserting a feeding tube in him and there are no guarantees that this will work. Mr. Darcy [...]
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Thanks to everybody who has been sending in their new ideas for beta testing. This is a time of potentially great innovation in public relations and it’s good to see how many new trails are being blazed. We will highlight innovators and what they are trying to achieve through the PRBlogNews New Media Lab. Want to pitch PRBlogNews? See guidelines [...]
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Handbook for bloggers and cyber dissidents (1.6 mg pdf) by Reporters Without Borders is an excellent guide to the blogosphere from the legal, ethical, and moral imperatives of bloggers to the nuts and bolts of how to choose and use a blog platform, and how to get picked up by search engines and aggregators. The [...]
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Where’s the outrage? Not on the blogosphere, apparently. On TV and in print we see dramatic, theatrical footage of angry Brazilians taking to the streets with Bush as Hitler posters, denouncing Bush as a terrorist and assassin, throwing rocks in a haze of tear gas. This is news? Everybody liked Clinton, with his Kennedy glow, but otherwise [...]
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Wikis sound cute but they can be clunky and forbidding and mysterious. What’s a wiki? Very simply, it’s a web page or a web site that can be edited easily by multiple users (think Wikipedia). By all rights the wiki is the most elegant, simplest, cheapest web-based collaboration tool available. It can be used for [...]
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