Articles by Morgan McLintic

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Financial Times and The Economist launch RSS feeds

Paul Kedrosky highlights that both The Financial Times and The Economist have launched RSS feeds, on his Infectious Greed blog. The Economist feed is a rather tepid affair, mainly publishing its weekly table of contents,…



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Bloggers claim another scalp

This time CNN’s Eason Jordon, chief news executive according to the New York Times. Mixed reaction as to whether this is the result of a search for truth or a vigilante hunt: ‘Edward Morrissey, a…


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NYT says conglomerates are bad for PR’s health

The New York Times points a firm finger that conglomerate agencies’ drive to fatten their profits causes a drop in their ethical standards. Citing the Armstrong Williams case, Edelman big wigs wade in: ‘Communications conglomerates,…


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News of PR’s death

The Economist has a profile of Robert Scoble, aka The Scobleizer at Microsoft and the impact his blog has had on humanizing Microsoft’s reputation. It goes on to quote Bruce Lowry, PR boss at Novell,…


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Pepsi-iTunes hack – again

CNET is reporting the same ‘hack’ in the Pepsi-iTunes giveaway that was highlighted last year, mainly by bloggers. Essentially, the underside of the Pepsi bottle cap tells you whether you have won or not. By…


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I Fail, Carry on

Carly Fiorina’s departure (resignation/firing) has been covered everywhere today, such as here, here and here. Dan Gillmor is one of the first to show his disgust at the $21m pay-off. Rather aptly I worked out…


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Daily Mail goes RSS

dotJournalism highlights that the Daily Mail has launched its own RSS feeds. Not sure the housewives of the UK need 19 flavors of RSS from the Mail, including two on motorsport, but good to see…


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Insight into analyst bloggers

Tekrati has insight into why research analysts are blogging, the response they’ve had and their plans for the future. You would think that having a bigger forum to display their insights and having a chance…


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Podcasting and PR

Seems everyone is talking about podcasting at the moment. Here’s a piece from CNN which gives a good overview and some anecdotes. According to this article, Adam Curry’s ‘Daily Source Code’ has built up a…