My firm is promoting the upcoming Under the Radar event at the end of May. At the pre-event mixer on Wednesday, a colleague of mine described the event as ‘American Idol for Venture Capital’ during…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As I noted at the beginning of the month, the Alastair Campbell blog was a fake. The Times has scooped a full confession from the author who explains how she managed to get inside details…
The impact of blogging on businesses makes the cover story of BusinessWeek. Need more proof?
Looks like the Bunny is back after its tangle with the lawyers.
Jeremy Pepper is pulling out all the stops at his blog at the moment. Today he kicks off another new series called the Clueless Train where he intends to keep PR bloggers true. Regardless of…