Posted in News on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Great lineup and a new location for tomorrow’s meetup!
What: NY Video 2.0 August Meetup
When: Thursday, August 30th at 7:00pm
Where: For Your Imagination Studio, 22 West 27th Street, 6th Floor (Map)
** IMPORTANT: New Location! **
The group is now well over 1,000 members and they have been exploring new, more central locations to host the monthly meetups. The good people at For [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
We were running around naked in the country, tripping on the music, the Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones bookending the wild experiences of psychedelia, love, death and war.
Harken back 35 years ago. August, 1972, the Dead played a benefit in Oregon for Ken Kesey’s brothers dairy farm. The video quality is poor but the feeling is ecstatic. China Cat [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, Politics, blogging, social media, virtual reality on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The black arts infiltrated Strumpette last week with a fascinating posting on the “Dark Side of PR 2.0” – nefarious activity that uses Web 2.0 tools to warp the minds of the masses. The day that appeared the mainstream media (MSM) reported that the CIA is now using Facebook in its operations. Later in the [...]
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A big moment occurred on Strumpette this week with the either/or piece by Marcia Silverman, CEO of Ogilvy Worldwide. Special thanks to Ms. Silverman for violating the unofficial PR CEO August hiatus on conversations about the conversation and finding the voice to speak. Ms. Silverman made a definitively ambiguous statement — a title like “Digital [...]
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Posted in Media on Aug 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
That’s what you expect Hardball’s (Screwball, Oddball, Hardballs?) Chris Matthews to babble on his show last Friday evening when he was interviewing CNBC’s “Street Signs” anchor Erin Burnett about the latest Wall Street news. The news about housing was boring but Burnett apparently was not. ”You look great… Look at that look… You’re great… No, you’re beautiful. I’m just [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
You will face a lot of pressure today. The boss. The client. Co-worker out to get you. Take heart. It’s Friday, summertime. Hold on to what’s inside, keep your balance. Dig the lyrics from a Joni Mitchell song coming out on her new album SHINE. The lyrics to “if” are based on Joni’s favorite poem by [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
To a blogger, a real blogger, a blogger compelled and driven to reach for a higher truth or a new fantasy, what is the worst that can happen when you die? What are your final thoughts?
Who will update your blog? What will happen to your traffic? Does committing suicide mean you are also killing your blog? What if [...]
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