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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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You can say that those vast right conspirators are virulent viral marketers. My counterpoint on the west coast, my brother Bruce, is an unrepetent Orange County Republican.  Going back to Goldwater and Johnson we sparred and sometimes warred over the virtues of Democrats vs Republicans. Somehow my brother lassoed me into one of these anti-Hillary viral [...]

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Greasy limb ripping bears later … First there’s Strumpette, proving once again that she is the best thing going in the PR Blogosphere (is that a dubious sub-genre, or what?) with the inside info on the imminent demise of Edelman’s Me2Revolution, complete with juicy details like salaries for Steve Rubel, Phil Gomes and others in the Edelman [...]

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I hate the PR releases now running on Bloglines PR circuit … VP appointed here, SVP there, blah blah here and there. Used to be Bloglines was a great source for ideas. Now it’s PR about PR, blah is pleased that blah is now leading the practice in ethical, sustainable, community based public relations that [...]

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