LEWIS launches RSS feeds for clients
Quick update on what’s going on in the engine room of my agency, LEWIS. We’ve just launched a service called LEWIS Wire, which provides RSS feeds of the press releases issued for all clients. We’ve…
Customize Google News homepage
Google News now allows you to customize the homepage layout. The feature means you can re-arrange the sections (Sci/Tech, Entertainment, US, World, Business etc) and introduce new Google News search topics onto your homepage. Good…
If a blogger blogs
Tom Foremski has the second installment of his essay about the impact of blogging on public relations and the media. I agree that the number of voices in the blogosphere means that companies cannot control…
Technorati: Soon all will be revealed
My apologies for those trying to use the Technorati Searchlet on my site. When you put in a search term it reports this login error saying "Soon All Will Be Revealed". I recall Neville Hobson…
Are bloggers reporters?
The New York Times covers the Apple vs Bloggers suit again today. Clearly not all bloggers have journalistic aspirations or intentions, nor do they work with the discipline of professional journalists. However, there are blogs…
Spyblogs
Wired: The intelligence community does a terrible job of looking outside itself for information. From journalists to academics and even educated amateurs – there are thousands of people who would be interested and willing to…
Bloggers, chill out
CNET: OK so it looks like the Federal Election Commission isn’t now cracking down on blogging and email, according to Ellen Weintraub, commissioner for the FEC. …we’re not the speech police. We don’t tell private…
Back from Boulder
Back after a couple of days in sunny Boulder, Colo (just near Denver for those outside the US, and a technology hub). Boulder is an interesting place, a micro-climate of technology companies, which sees itself…
BBC News Online editor blogs
Pete Clifton, the editor of the BBC News website has a blog detailing the key stories of the week, and giving an insight into which articles got the most traffic. Nice look under the hood…
How podcasting is affecting radio
BusinessWeek discusses the impact of podcasting and satellite radio on traditional broadcasters:Listeners, increasingly bored by the homogeneous programming and ever-more-intrusive advertising on commercial airwaves, are simply tuning out and finding alternatives. Says Rishad Tobaccowala, chief…