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. [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Citizen journalism, Edelman, Media, News, News Roundup, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, Politics, blogging, social media on Jun 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times. She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]
Read Full Post »
Google this, Google that. Google to add ‘universal’ search results. According to MediaWeek, Google will pull information from across the Web in all forms - web site links, images, video, blogs, maps or even from books - then present the results on a single page. There is also a new, updated version of Google analytics for your blog [...]
Read Full Post »
BusinessWeek’s “Virtual Life” Tech Special Report out today envisions a totally immersive 3-D web that offers a rich panorama of experience to rival our physical lives.
Much experimentation is already happening in Second Life. Companies are realizing beneficial B-to-B applications - virtual meetings, showrooms, presentations. Products are planned to be launched and tested, stores are opening, real estate is [...]
Read Full Post »
“I still find some bloggers unwilling to acknowledge the positive role played by PR people; we are sometimes demonized as floggers or worse,” Richard Edelman says in the following interview with PRBlogNews.
Richard Edelman (right) is the CEO of the firm that bears the family name. Richard is the son of Daniel J., the founder and architect of [...]
Read Full Post »
“I am a tenured professor of journalism, I can do whatever the fuck I want,” said Jay Rosen (right), NYU tenured professor of journalism. Rosen was speaking at the New York Social Media Club meeting, at Edelman Worldwide New York headquarters, last Tuesday.
Rosen was explaining why mainstream media would never undertake his current project of “Pro-Am” journalism fittingly called Assignment Zero. [...]
Read Full Post »
Handbook for bloggers and cyber dissidents (1.6 mg pdf) by Reporters Without Borders is an excellent guide to the blogosphere from the legal, ethical, and moral imperatives of bloggers to the nuts and bolts of how to choose and use a blog platform, and how to get picked up by search engines and aggregators. The [...]
Read Full Post »
