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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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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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Can YouTube elect the next U.S. President? That question is much more viable today than last week as Ron Paul, the fervent, iconoclastic Congressman from Texas with two first names, raised $4.3 million in one day largely based on an amateur video posted on YouTube. See thisnovember5th.com for the video and the story. Ron Paul’s YoutTube [...]

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PodCamp NYC Wows The Masses , April 9, 2007, was a revelation for me. In one location teeming with idealists and raw talent I saw the personification of all that was wrong with the public relations business and why PR would fail at social media. Among the 1,000 or so scraggly masses I ran into at PodCampNYC there [...]

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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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Yesterday I saw “Die Mommie Die,” a campy off-Broadway musical with a title we can certainly all relate to. About an hour into the show I thought of Amanda Chapel. After all, the lead is played by a man (Charles Busch) playing a woman (Angela) who secretly poisoned her sister and assumed her identity and [...]

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