You say you want a revolution.
The uprising in Burma-Myanmar reached a fevered pitch this week and reminded us of how important blogging can be. Citizen journalists on the ground reported on skirmishes and posted graphic pictures of death and bloodshed as photographers were cut down by gunfire and monks were killed, beaten, corralled and confined. [...]
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Posted in Blog news, News on Sep 28th, 2007 No Comments »
The uprising in Burma-Myanamar has legs, as they say. It could well prove a turning point in the sad history of that country, or it may preclude another 1988-style mass killing. Like many previous disasters, the best raw news and pctures, and some videos, are coming from citizen journalists and bloggers. Many Myanmar bloggers are well established [...]
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Posted in News, Politics on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Fordham Road, The Bronx — Today, the recently elected Vice Premier of the Peoples Republic of the Bronx declared Hugo Chavez Day on February 15, 2008, which is expected to be the coldest day of the winter season in the fledgling republic. To celebrate the tethering of Venezuela with its semi-autonomous New York borough, Venezuelan officials [...]
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Posted in Media, News on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Those four words in the opinion page of The Rocky Mountain Collegian have lead to a call for the editor to resign. A lot of pissed off alumni and students with no sense of minimalist topical poetry are saying that this is worse, or at least on the same scale, as inviting the nuke-crazed Iranian Hitler to [...]
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Posted in Jobs, News on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
اليوم الإثنيل السوق أمس بسبب إجازة اليوم الوطني؛ لتواصل السوق حركتها داخل
NettRESULTS international marketing & public relations has an opening for public relations account manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to build their own teams and would be expected to be integral in winning new accounts in Saudi Arabia. Strategic consultancy to [...]
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Posted in News, Politics on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Above - motorcade of Iranian President Ahmadinejad speeding out of Columbia
to the westside highway, 3:05 PM, 9/24/07. Photos by Mark Rose.
The Iranian leader is a ”pettty, cruel dictator” according to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger who humiliated his guest with blistering opening remarks to the point that Ahmadinejad claimed to be the victim of cheap insults. If [...]
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Posted in Jobs on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Strategy and New Media Relationship Development
Provide senior level blogger relations counsel to clients and account team members
Expand the NY CMSN’s rolodex of relationships with key industry bloggers
Ongoing training and education on how to become more deeply embedded in the blogosphere
Strategize and execute blogger relations portion of programs with limited supervision
Teach/coach NY [...]
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