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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Posted in Media, News, Video on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
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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Posted in Media, News, PR Practices on Jan 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
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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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, News Roundup, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Blogs, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, blogging on Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments »
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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Posted in Media, News on Nov 18th, 2007 No Comments »
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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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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