Dan Gillmor previews Bayosphere
Dan Gillmor previews his new venture, Bayosphere which will launch soon. There are no RSS feeds yet and you have to log in to comment or submit ideas or articles. It looks like an interesting…
Do you put your blog on your business card?
I went to a mixer event attended by several blogging companies, RSS and podcasting firms last night. No-one had their personal or corporate blog on their business card. How long before it’s as normal to…
Do blogs really enable conversations?
The contrarian in me wonders whether blogs really enable conversations. I mean real, meaningful dialog. Many blogs allow comment posting. But most of those comments are unrelated to each other, and it’s rare that there…
Me the media?
Like other PR bloggers, I received an email this week from Bacon’s entitled "Bacon’s Helps Top Journalists Like You." Quite a surprise since I’m not a journalist, let alone a top one. It was a…
Nick Denton in NYT
NYT has a profile of Nick Denton’s Gawker Media today. Quote from Denton about the blogging revolution: "The hype comes from unemployed or partially employed marketing professionals and people who never made it as journalists…
Should PR firms ghost-write client blog posts?
I’ve been discussing the acceptability of ghost-writing blog posts on behalf of clients lately with other PR firms and industry insiders. Now that blogs have been on the cover of BusinessWeek, many companies I talk…
Hiring: General Manager for China
I’m looking for a General Manager to open an office in China – Shanghai and/or Beijing. Details are here. If you are interested or know anyone who might, please mail me here.
Commiserations to Boothy
My friend and LEWIS colleague, Clive Booth stood as the Conservative MP candidate for the City of York in the UK elections tonight. Sorry to see you didn’t get in Boothy but it was a…
Is there such a thing as ethical headhunting?
So as the competition for staff bubbles up once again, I thought I’d find out the rules by which headhunters play. It’s a dark and murky world, but surely they have a code of practice?…
Federal debt – to infinity and beyond
BusinessWeek has a cartoon (p.16) about the US Federal Debt which now tops out at $7.8 trillion dollars. Since most people have trouble imaging such high numbers it depicts a tower of one dollar bills…