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EPIPHANY OF THE YEAR - You Don’t Need to Blog
November 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 [...]

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Pakistanis are finding ways to break through the info-crackdown by General Musharraf and his gang by getting satellite dishes and becoming info warriors.  They are connecting to the Internet and outside news sources and they are blogging from inside the country and aggregating reports from other bloggers. As we have seen from crackdowns in other countries, information has [...]

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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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Amanda won’t die. When do we cross to the other side?
Since there are no rules here, and I would break them if there were, I am hijacking the Week in Review from the apparently defunct Strumpette. It has been nearly a week since Amanda Chapel called it quits and set off fireworks from the blogerati, both [...]

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Burson Digs Itself Deeper.
In the 80’s, 90’s and the earlier part of this century Burson-Marsteller had a stellar reputation. It was the gold standard, the McKinsey of PR. Burson execs were built of special stock, seemingly smarter, richer, working on cool, high-level stuff with big budgets. Burson was the perennial top-dog in billings, its [...]

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bin Looney & beheadings - titanic PR flare-ups in high chatter week
Although the New York Post dismissed him as “bin Looney,” Osama bin Laden managed to hijack the global political agenda last week with a rant against America that was calculated and effective PR. Republicans were ecstatic dissecting bin Looney’s psycho-political analysis and rambling exhortations [...]

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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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