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. [...]
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“Don’t Tase Me Bro!” became the rallying cry of disenfranchised college students this week as one slightly unglued academic took the zap heard round the world at a John Kerry speaking event. YouTube videos of the tasing became the subject of news segments, T-shirts went on sale the next day, designer tasers were hot items [...]
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Secretive corporate and financial communications firm Kekst and Company was deemed “a waste” by lawyers for a bankrupt sub-prime lender American Home Mortgage who reportedly gave Kekst a $50,000 non-refundable retainer last August. “ … the primary purpose of Kekst’s retention appears to be to assist management in putting its best face forward with the [...]
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It was an intense high chatter PR week that began with Osama bin Looney lobbing verbal and visual bombs from a cave in Pakistan, and ending with George Bush, the Great Bumbler, desperately seeking understanding and legitimacy in a world disinclined to bestow either. Bush’s spin of “building on success” comes three years after “Mission [...]
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Transitive Nightfall. Now with Extra Diamonds!
August 14, 2007 8:16 PM Subscribe
Is there no humor in public relations? The public relations blog PRBlogNews included a post last week on PR and LSD ( a long strange happy tradition). It appears to have been a joke, mixing a selection of early youth-on-acid videos with [...]
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After the 08.08.2007 PRBlogNews post PR & LSD - a long strange happy tradition , I got inquiries into where AEs can find jobs at agencies specializing in the resurgent ‘psychedelic PR’. Some questioned whether we should be promoting such questionable practices, and another accused of us of being cultural jihadists. Not surprisingly, this subject brought up [...]
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Social Media & The Bad Guys
“What happens if some bad, bad, motherf**kers want to do this (social media)? The government? The Rand Corporation? Terrorists?” Loren Feldman says in the 8/8/07 Strumpette TOTAL RANT: Outrage for the Flies. I have to say, first thing in the morning, before the first cup of coffee, Loren’s dark unshaven [...]
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