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 face and dark pit eyes breaking through the monitor while he rants “You don’t know what the f**k you’re doing, do you?” really jump starts the day. Dis is why New York City is da media capital of the world. Cause dis is how we project. Katie Couric may deliver da evening news, barely, with perfect diction for $10 mil. Loren Feldman will give you the lowdown for free, and he doesn’t even speaka da language. SEE the rest of the story on Strumpette Week in Review 08.12.07
James Bond may have thought “You only die once,” and my mother Shirley, god rest her soul, used to say “Why die twice?” when I worried excessively. But apparently the Social Media Club believes that its mission is to repeatedly die like a poor fish flopping on a deck, gasping for air. Won’t some kind fisherman put the Social Media Club out of its misery and club it to death so we don’t have to witness its pathetic spasms?
I have been on to these Coolhunting guys for a couple of months, since they started the 
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 but it’s an old story. PR people aren’t reading the paper and thinking like journalists. Kantor now covers politics in general, and Barack Obama specifically, for NYT.
jewel brand as the prize. It’s not the Montagues and Capulets, although there is no love lost between the two families and the battle can be Shakespearian in proportion. That’s what we have this week with Rupert Murdoch meeting the Bancrofts today to slap the Aussie woo on the current keepers of Dow Jones. See my analysis on Strumpette 
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“I am committed to customer service for the rest of my life. Death is my exit strategy,” said Craig Newmark, Craig’s List founder and chief conscience, at the 