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New York One has been a staple for us die hard news junkies for years. At its launch in 1992 it was an audacious experiment - a 24 hour TV channel devoted exclusively to New York City news. What was a pioneer move then now seems obvious - New York is its own news cycle. The city […]

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Obama bounces, Hillary flattens.  Twists and turns in the Demo Presidential campaign got a little wilder this week with Bill Richardson, aka Wolfman Jack, the latest ‘friend’ to turn on Hillary Clinton. It’s almost like “March of the Demos” as one by one the big honchos - Kerry, Kennedy, Richardson - dive into the icy waters that bring the […]

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Mandy Stadtmiller of New York Post is doing a story on drunk emailing just in time for Valentine’s Day. Apparently this is a real problem - at least a study reveals that finding.
Mandy seeks your best, funniest stories about drunk emails (can be one that you sent, one that you received) by noon tomorrow - […]

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How do you get down in the fabric of the local community? How do you influence from the real grassroots, one-to-one? These are questions that rack the brains of marketers these days. The Internet is the great distribution pipe marketers and PR people could only dream about.  But hyper local marketing requires an authentic voice, tangible action that […]

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POLITICS: Obama to the wire
With 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 […]

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Journal on the move 
The Wall Street Journal is moving to midtown. Freeing Journal editorial staff the from the ghosts of the past, Rupert the Terrible is boldly going where the Bancroft’s dared not. Journal staffers will soon be under the News Corp. umbrella at company headquarters on 1221 6th Avenue (48th street), known as “the canyon.”
The Journal, which […]

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This is the Year of the Visual Web, when video explodes on the web and our Internet experience jumps to a higher level.
Here’s an example. BlinkX is a video search engine. I inserted search term “Heath Ledger” to produce this wall of video. Scroll over each one to see date and origin of the video. Click […]

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The Rocket is in total command of his stuff. He launched the YouTube video to tell the truth (see hilarious remix video below), he snagged “60 Minutes” with his old pal Mike Wallace and he beautifully manipulated the pre-interview publicity.  Here is a guy who is total master of his image. Those weren’t steroids or human […]

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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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Oracle from Omaha Reading PRBlogNews?
I am not saying that Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world, avidly reads PRBlogNews. I will say that when Alex Rodriguez called him for advice the Omaha Oracle told A-Rod to dump his punk agent BorAss and go to Tampa and have a face-to-face with the Steinbrenner family to […]

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