PRBlogNews Voters Disenfranchised

Irregular voting patterns emerge / PRBlogNews voters disenfranchised in PRWeek blog compettion” …. this is feeling a lot like a presidential election where it doesn’t matter who you vote for because the results are pre-programmed.” That’s the comment, among many, that sent us reaching out to the lawyers. 

For two days now friends, clients, and the media have complained to us about the difficulty of voting for PRBlogNews in the PRWeek blog competition. Yesterday at approximately 4:00PM EST PRBlogNews was 50/50 with Glass House and then irregular voting patterns emerged that lead to a surge by Glass House. This coincided with outreach by a Wagg Ed shill that suggested the reported Naked PR practiced there was about to be uncovered.

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Time for change – Vote for PRBlogNews Now

Could PRBlogNews ever make it to the cover of Wired?The PRWeek blog competition has been a revealing exercise in the PR business examining itself. As if we needed further proof - we are a stilted profession with no sense of humor and no imagination. Basically, that is why, no matter how hard we try, we are unable to grab a measurable piece of the advertising/marketing budget with this newly packaged “social media” hoohah.   

I am sure that Frank X. Shaw at Glass House (my opposition) is a fine and honorable man. His bio says that he was public affairs officer in the Marines, he heads the Microsoft business, and he is president of a PR firm that has grown into a well-known powerhouse. It’s just that his blog posts are flat out boring and typical of an exec who must protect his turf, watch his back, mind what he says, not rile clients, appease the employees and pretend to be insightful and informative. That’s okay, it’s good for the President to have a blog, but let’s call it for what it is.

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PRBlogNews in battle to the finish

Vote PRBlogNews

Forget global warming, genocide, recession, floods and fires. The battle of the century is taking place now and PRBlogNews is trailing in the early returns. We need your vote to overcome the early lead of the Glass House blog, authored by Frank X. Smith, President of Waggener Edstrom.

Unfortunately, there has been some confusion about how to vote in this competition.  It’s actually quick and easy: Click the image above or go to the PRWeek blog competition page here.  Scroll down until you see the widget above. Click on PR Blog News and your vote will be instantly recorded. Send a message for change: Vote PRBlogNews.

PR/Media Week-in-Review, 07-20-2008

Loren Feldman Goes Too Far

Mark Rose, Editor, PRBlogNews, PR/Media Week-in-Review“How do you know you’ve gone too far until you go there?” – anon  |  This quote should be on the 1938Media web site. As we know, Loren Feldman, the ganza macher of 1938Media, likes to push the edges. Technigga, his digital trilogy to racial stereotypes and the vacuity of social media, was perhaps his boldest stride into comedic social commentary. The whole “black tech” issue came back to haunt Loren recently with a dustup with NPR - he’s like a heat seeking missile for controversy.

What’s to become of Loren Feldman? There was buzz of a C-Net deal, Verizon signed him up for a day or two before they realized his content could not be controlled, he tried integrating into Mahalo like a MTV V-Jay (NO!), he floated the idea of charging for “premium” content (apparently 99 cents was too much for most people), and he hobnobbed with Calacanis in Brentwood and Arrington in the Bay area like Blanche DuBois relying on the kindness of strangers. He even gave up pounding on Shel Israel and absolved Julia Allison - still he could not go mainstream with the digerati.Charlie Chaplin

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PR/Media Week in Review 07-13-2008

Mark Rose, Editor, PRBlogNewsWhat is Ronn Torossian thinking?

Torossian, CEO of 5W PR, really stepped in it this week and hubris and deflection will not save him.  He needs to fire Juda Engelmayer and accept full responsibility for the latest ethical lapse at his company or suffer serious credibility damage.

The thumbnail of this outrageous story: Engelmayer impersonated a prominent Rabbi and fabicated other characters who posted laudatory comments about a 5W client and mimicked critics in blogs and chats. Shmarya Rosenberg of FailedMessiah.com did some sharp investigating and found that the posts were coming from Engelmayer.

At first, Torossian countered with his usual bluster: “I have complete confidence in knowing that my account team who runs these accounts did not make these posts.”

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PR/Media Week in Review 02-10-2008

POLITICS: Obama to the wire

Mark Rose, Editor, PRBlogNewsWith Obama handily defeating Clinton in three primaries yesterday (Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington state), the two Democratic party front runners have nearly identical delegate counts. That means that late-stage primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, May 20, Montana and South Dakota, June 3, take on huge importance. The front-loaded Super Tuesday did not anoint the candidate.

In Obama’s victory speech last night in Virginia (primary this Tuesday) he concentrated on what sort of President he would be and his sharp differences with McCain. Both Obama and Clinton are transitioning into “Presidential” mode. Obama has momentum and money going into the next spate of primaries.  It is still hard to imagine him winning this thing despite his crowd-pleasing oratorical gifts

Author Doris Lessing, who holds the Nobel in literature, believes that Obama “would not last long” if he were President because somebody would surely assassinate him. See USA Today story. This is a story line not often mentioned these days but is certainly valid. Colin Powell refused to run for President because he believed he would be aggressively targeted for assassination.

WIRED BITCH RANT: Bruce Sterling Has Bad Hair Day & Bitch Slaps Flacks

What can you say to this blog post headline:

I’m Suffering An Evil Tidal Wave of Blogsurfing Public Relations Spam

WIRED reporter Bruce Sterling joins the Chris Anderson Support Group to Bitch Slap Flacks  with his post against publicists.  Sterling re-prints a media pitch with his own snide comments. Actually, the pitch is well-done and sounds relevant to me and it is Sterling who sounds like a whiner. It is definitely NOT spam.Solly Parton Comments are turned off for this post in case anybody has an opinion that may be contrary. Picking on publicists, especially when they pitch journalists with legitimate story ideas, is bush league, nasty and speaks more about the complainer. Did Sterling ever snatch a good idea for a story from a PR pitch, or find a source to flesh out a story?

MUTUAL SUPPORT: Dolly’s ‘Shock and Awe” 

Dolly Parton says her storied boobs, affectionately nicknamed “shock” and “awe,” belong to all of mankind. “They do seem like public property in a way. They served me well — I don’t know if I’m supporting them or they’re supporting me,” the country legend, 62, tells next month’s Ladies’ Home Journal. “I’ve always had nice ones but of course I’ve had ‘em jacked up a bit. And they’re part of the persona — it always takes a little pressure off me.”  

VIDEO: PRBlogNews VIDEO Hall of Fame

See that VIDEO tab up top. That’s where you can waste valuable time watching edgey arty newsy or fun videos instead of billing client time. Check it out.

Link Whores Unite

My blogging is commensurate with my success in business. The busier I am with billable hours, the less I blog. You have to sacrifice something and for me the choice is clear. And you become Are we all link whores?more cautious. You have clients to protect, an image to convey. The less said the better. Why say anything? We are being pummeled with bad economic news and that sets a foul mood and taints everything anyway.

I empathise with Phil Gomes, Steve Rubel, and all the other bloggers whose names are below Richard Edelman on the Edelman site. They’re not going to blog about their mercurial boss or rail against a cruel and punishing God. The best we can do is link to others and let them speak for us. 

Bill Slezdick of Tough Sledding hits on a touchy though increasingly relevant subject that in the past was referred to as the “Feminization of PR.” Too many women in PR? Some agencies have outstanding orders for “anything with balls” to fill out professional staff.

The Queen of saying nothing is Aedhmar Hynes, CEO of Text 100, who has not posted to her blog since May, 2006. As Abraham Lincoln reputedly said, better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

I was touched by Jim Horton’s recent post on the death of his father. I am always impressed by the consistency and intelligence of his posts. Ike Piggott at Occam’s RazR has one of those brains that scramble up like a fritzed out ham radio and then come into sharp focus long enough so you think at least he knows what he’s talking about.

Jason McCabe Calacanis always has a lot to say, sometimes about topics other than himself. Mahalo is producing its own daily video  by Veronica Belmont and that’s cool. Maybe Jason is taking a page from Loren Feldman at 1938 Media  but Jason is going more WallStrip than burn down the house, re-enact the French Revolution of Loren.  We want personality baby!

I am glad that Eric Starkman is tackling the important issues in his post on The Dehumanization of Britney Spears but I don’t get the connection between the Brit and Kitty Genovese. Britney invites TMZ and X17 photogs into her house, she endlessly cruises Hollywood with trailing packs of paparazzo, she sleeps with the enemy and bares all her weirdness for us scandal-starved masses to take in. Kitty Genovese was a real victim, Brit is complicit in her own demise, no matter how tragic it may seem. I suspect that Eric is passing through the Britney story and he is not fully immersed in the daily (minute to minute) details.

more link whoring later …

Review of the Jew – so long ’07, hello ’08

EPIPHANY OF THE YEAR – You Don’t Need to Blog

Mark Rose, Editor, PRBlogNewsNovember 19, 2007 broke like any other morning with one big difference – the thought of blogging made me ill. I had plenty to say, just didn’t feel like saying it, at least in this forum. And so it was for more than a month, a blissful break that could reactivate at any time. During my hiatus I discovered that we as Jews involved in the grand conspiracy to control the media, entertainment and banking businesses of the world, sometimes need to take a break, especially after such a fruitful year. I need to read the Talmud and go to shul, I don’t need to blog. So what I need to do right now is to celebrate Jews (and a couple of goys) who have had an exceptional year in creative and clandestine media manipulation.

VICTORY OF THE YEAR – Feldman Defeats French in Epic Battle

Loren Feldman is not only a Jew, he is a New York meshugenah who enoys good food and women with ample bosoms. His 1938media videos were entertaining and often hit on uncomfortable truisms driven by the force of Feldman’s Stanley Loren Feldman 1938 MediaKowalski personality. In 2007 Feldman was making his mark in a tight little circle, and then he unknowingly picked a fight with the Frenchies and took the whole thing to a higher level.

For a few days in December as Loren banned the French from his site (you can ban country-specific entry to your site) and the French Seesmic people tried to ban Loren in some pathetic display of ‘retaliation,’ we were witnessing real time prime video theatre that showed why unabashed French baiting is now a divine right of all Americans. It also showed that Loren is one tough Jew.

It started with the Seesmic Review, 12/16/07, but the heat of battle lasted more than three days through a torrent of videos on both sides of the Atlantic. Loic Le Meur CEO of Seesmic had run into the Feldman buzzsaw and he was completely Frenched. The lame-o videos that the Seesmic-ites produced to counter Feldman confirmed every French cliche going and created a few more.

Loren Feldman 1938 MediaLoic made two critical errors: he thought Loren was racist and he thought he was serious. And because of that Loren decided to get real serious and to taunt and antagonize and mock and humilate the French. It was amazing how many others wanted to join in. 1938Media attracts a sometimes rabid gang.

Vinny Says:
December 16th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

I love all the people calling Loren a racist. I know him personally. NONE of you do. The man is OBVIOUSLY not a racist so get the hell over yourselves.

Secondly, he made some valid points in the review. If your stupid asses watched it instead of looking for something to be offended for, you’d realize he was pretty much right. The interface sucks, the quality is dreadful, and the idea of having to watch multiple RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE: videos to see a reply.

Oh, and the Flash use on the entire site? SUCKS, and it’s slow as ass.

So maybe all you wounded Frenchmen should pay better attention and stop venting your inferiority complexes as cries of racism.

Pay attention, and learn.

VIDEO OF THE YEAR – Jew Hip Hop /Crank That Kosha Boy

BUG OUT OF THE YEAR – Jason McCabe Calacanis / Goy Wonder 

Jason McCabe CalacanisBaby faced Greek thumb sucking serial entrepreneur and dog face licker JasonMcCabe&Mrs.Miller CalacanisOuzo III (left, at NYC dim sum orgy) bowed out of a scheduled face-to-face one-on-one basketball showdown in a New York City schoolyard with Feldman the Mad Bald Jew. Bloated and surly from a dim sum fest in a dowdy Chinatown emporium with lowlife hackers and blogger wannabes, Calacanis blamed his bow-out on the weather and an over stuffing of kalamata olives.  In ’07 Calacanis aggressively hawked Mahalo, the first human powered search engine. Can it work? I question the following in its Guide Notes on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto: “Although shots were fired at her, she died of a fractured skull from hitting her head against the sun roof of her car.” Is that true or Pakistani government propaganda? Does the “human” in the Mahalo equation simply cut and paste “facts” from unreliable sources and further solidify a false story? ’08 will be a dangerous time in Internet communication as questionable sources gain credibility with unquestioning distribution channels. Calacanis is from Brooklyn. He should know about this.

PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR – Brian Connolly & Friends

Actually Brian (right) is runner up, third, fourth, fifth and sixth place in this category. “So, when I get an email from Amanda it’s really Brian?” somebody asked me, perturbed by the various genders and shadings of Brian. “Actually,” I said. “That is one of Brian’s personalities. And then Brian himself has several personalities. These days it’s best to keep a scorecard before responding.” One of Brian’s personalities likes to confront adversaries in postings, email and on the phone. That is the Brian that over-thought Strumpette into oblivion and then resurrection. Where does Strumpette go in 2008? I couldn’t venture but now at least my cell phone minutes are down 50% since I started talking to only one Brian. Despite the name that implies a long line of patronage in the Chicago police force and prominence at St. Patrick’s Day beer bashes, Brian actually claims Orthodox Judaism in his immediate family. Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote about Connolly and one of his personalities in Sex and the Shtetl.

PRBLOGNEWS POST OF THE YEAR – Psychedelia baby 

See PR & LSD – a long strange happy tradition

MOST CHASTENED – Steve Rubel

I apologize for calling Microconfusion blogger Steve Rubel a shiny head Yoda and incorrigible link whore. Now that he has admitted that everything he has been frantically flogging for the past two years is bull he can only be accused of being the latter. 

MOST STALWART – Richard Edelman

Talk about a big shot Jew. Richard has his name on hundreds of doors all around the world. This year he finally admitted that we don’t need the established goy media and we can manipulate the masses directly through social media. My mother Shirley, God rest her soul, would be in love with this man. Plus, he blogs consistently even when he has nothing to say except that he had drinks with a journalist and commissioned a new study that will prove a greater need for his PR services.

MOST IMPROVED – Eric Schwartzman

He got a haircut and picked up his pants. Bravo.  But the goofball video he has on iPressroom looks geeky and dated … but maybe that sort of thing works in L.A. Is he a Jew?

BEST LOBOTOMY – B.L. Ochman

It has to be why she is like that.

Loren Feldman Says It All

 

Lonerbook Launches – Nobody Notices

LonerbookLonerbook, an anti-social utility that keeps you from connecting with people around you, launched days ago, in case you haven’t noticed. “Finally, a web site for people like us” original members may be Larry David, J.D. Ted KazynskiSalinger, Theodore Kaczynski (right), Axl Rose and Bobby Fischer.

Benefits of Lonerbook:

  • avoid photos or publish manifestos
  • no profiles
  • don’t worry about getting any news from acquaintances
  • Don’t join any networks so you won’t have to see people who live, study, or work around you

Eric Starkman, originator of Lonerbook, would not comment on the rumor that AOL offered $6 billion for the anti-social non-network.