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Is that Johnny Sack from the Sopranos up there in a web video announcing Hillary Clinton’s campaign song. How brilliant is that? Nearly as brilliant as getting husband Bill to play a central role in the video, and for the brief script to mirror the last cryptic minutes of the last episode of the Sopranos. Those Clintons have a [...]

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Most bloggers have to build up an audience over time, connecting to issues and other bloggers, hitting on an occasional hot topic that might spike readership. Most business blogs plumb a narrow field of issues and appeal to a niche audience. It is the “narrow and deep” factor accepted as the norm for blog success.
Then [...]

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The Social Media Club, which we declared dead here yesterday (with no refutation from its ‘leaders’), failed for several fundamental reasons:
- There was no social media. Throwing up a wiki or occasionally posting to a blog is not social media. First define it, then use it. Neither took place.
- There was no purpose. What were we [...]

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Somebody has to acknowledge the obvious so I may as well do it. The New York Social Media Club, floundering and searching for leadership and purpose, is dead. For months, members have been begging for direction, offering to help, to no avail. Howard Greenstein, who is supposed to be heading the thing in NY, does [...]

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Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times.  She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]

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The world stopped on Friday, as crazed paparazzi, dueling lawmen, lynch-mob commentators, and one over-the-top distraught heiress collided to make us all, for one shining moment, remember the glorious days of OJ. It’s no mistake that this stuff happens in L.A., which has established a news apparatus that can handle the celebrity handcuff moment. Does she [...]

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4:00 PM, EST, NYC: We are not less human than Paris Hilton, hallelujah, say the mass of commentators who are exulting “this great day for America” as a crying, disturbed Paris Hilton is shipped back to jail to fulfill her sentence. The picture of Paris, handcuffed and crying in the back of the Sheriff’s car on [...]

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