Psychedelic PR is making a comeback.
Founded in 1968 in San Francisco Biggles & Joy was a pioneer in psychedelic public relations, the practice of publicity by osmosis and transference of cosmic thoughts through mind altering experience. The work of Biggles & Joy has permeated the work of dozens of breakthrough highly-recognizable PR campaigns in the past [...]
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It was breathtaking to see how fast the aging but still nimble Rupert the Wily stalked and mercilessly killed his prey, Dow Jones, with only a bare hint of blood on his paws. Rupert entered the lair with a dripping hunk of fresh meat ($5 billion), divided and conquered the dysfunctional Bancroft’s and this week [...]
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Yo, Jason, chill. Jason McCabe Calacanis, crowned prince of the dot.com boom, survivor, arrogant visionary, fledgling poker player, yo-yo dieter, is so bummed by the social media thing he is turning off comments on his blog. Too much Facebook. Too many connections that lead to other connections that lead to nowhere. Too many supposed time [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, Paris/Britney/Lindsay, Politics, social media on Jul 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The big news this week was that Hillary Clinton displayed a hint of cleavage on the Senate floor. This elicited a major story in the Washington Post and reaction from news organizations, bloggers and candidates. Supposedly, the sight of cleavage sent Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter to gasping fits and required respirators to be brought [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, blogging, social media on Jul 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I poked Amanda Chapel this week. I was respectful, took proper precaution and I think it was good, if not brief, for both of us. Emboldened by my first successful poke on Facebook I began to poke others. With all this indiscriminate poking going on it’s no wonder that this online community is propagating at [...]
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All week long I heard the coyote howl as the moon, a waning crescent, receded further. It is the season of the coyote, not just here in the Olympic Mountains, but throughout the land as Trickster reveals itself in many permutations. The Makah, on the coast of the Olympic Peninsula and the Colville east of [...]
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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 [...]
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