Archive for November, 2007

PodCamp NYC Wows The Masses , April 9, 2007, was a revelation for me. In one location teeming with idealists and raw talent I saw the personification of all that was wrong with the public relations business and why PR would fail at social media. Among the 1,000 or so scraggly masses I ran into at PodCampNYC there [...]

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Let a million blogs bloom

What does the writers strike in Hollywood mean to bloggers? Hey, we’re not on strike because we don’t get paid. Does this mean that a million blogs will bloom … sorry Mao … and bloggers will take the great leap forward into TV stardom? Or does it all leave one big hole in our familiar universe?

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Monday Morning Coming Down

“No news?”
“Make news.”
The client, your boss, your so-called co-workers. And who among them can you trust? They all want a piece of you this morning. And it probably won’t get better through the week. It’s the nature of the game, especially in New York. They want hits, results, ink is still the oil that greases the [...]

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BorAss Reamed in Bronx 
The BorAss and A-Rod show was the top news this week, as greed and PR converge to take any joy left out of baseball. In this instance at least all baseball owners should collude to lock out A-Rod as a means of shutting down the BorAss hype and greed machine that is [...]

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Mahalo Man, mega blogger, Brooklyn-to-Brentwood ex-fatboy Jason McCabe Calacanis has accepted the challenge of a one-on-one basketball face-off from 1938 Media Man Loren Feldman, the Charles Barkley of video blogging. The stakes are high. The loser has to surrender his blog for a day and suffer the indignity of the winner assuming his persona, so for one day [...]

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I am still pissed at punk agent Scott BorAss for opting-out of his star client’s contract with the Yankees in such a tasteless and disrespectful way. It has been clear that BorAss is manipulating the Yankees and baseball with aggressive PR tactics meant to squeeze the last ounce of gelt from any possible baseball club owner he [...]

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