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Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice

One of the elements I love about social media is the tearing down of walls. I have an incredible network of contacts on multiple social networks to whom I can reach out in mere minutes. Just this morning, even, I put out an inquiry for this very blog post on...

Tags: Journalist, Newsletter, Reporter, Service, Wall, Help A Reporter Out, ProfNet, Source, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Construction, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-17

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Thieves ransack NJ Apple Store in 31 seconds

WowSomething tells me they had this planned out in advance...Who is this reporter?He makes it sound like these guys were criminal masterminds."Throwing a blunt object through the plate glass window like pros."How is that a pro move? "Me pick up brick and throw it through window."Honestly...he picks the brick, he...

Tags: GPS, NJ Apple Store

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Schwarzenegger "terminates" spending: Kindle for every California student?

Governor Schwarzenegger has scrapped funding for textbook contracts in a bid to fill a massive budget gap of $24 billion, and aiming to introduce electronic readers to digitalise the classroom. I couldn't help but use the Terminator quote in this one. The simple fact...

Tags: California, Governor, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Craigslist CEO: South Carolina AG's antics 'simply beyond the pale'

Craigslist CEO: South Carolina AG's antics 'simply beyond the pale'Harry McMaster is a trojan horseHe is manipulated from behind the scenes by a few liberal pupeteers to make all conservatives look like nuts and out of touch with America.AG's power is the loss of our freedoms.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11155-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=64679&messageID=1204064I suspect another motivation behind...

Tags: Harry McMaster, South Carolina AG, Craigslist, antic

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Industry commits to comparative effectiveness

Industry commits to comparative effectivenessUniversal Health Insurance CoverageI love your unstated assumptions. The first obvious one is that universal coverage will be deemed successful by the using public.It could be perceived as successful but I doubt it for the following reasons:1) Insufficient health care providers to handle the increased...

Tags: health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...

Tags: Zombie PC, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings callReally?The EC doesn't have Microsoft hating judges. It has Microsoft being found in violation of the EC rules/regulations repeatedly. Ergo, the judges have to bring the hammer down.Or would you rather that they didn't do anything when companies did "bad things?" Or is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., earnings call

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Zucker Vs. Stewart: "Completely Out of Line" On Cramer and CNBC

Zucker Vs. Stewart: "Completely Out of Line" On Cramer and CNBCI think Stewart was right onIf NBC's financial reporters had been doing real investigative reporting rather than luring people into investing in ways solely to make money, they could have made people aware a long time ago of what was...

Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, Zucker, Stewart, CNBC, Cramer

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Washington Post kills stand-alone business section

updated: The Washington Post said today that it will eliminate the stand-alone section devoted to business news, wrapping the news into the paper's A section instead, and will dramatically reduce the amount of stock data it publishes. The change takes effect March 30. The memo to employees has been posted...

Tags: Stock, Section, Washington Post Co., Post, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-13

News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?

News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?Sources and attributionin many cases the newspapers need to remember that it is not their own words that they're guarding. It is the words of their sources. In most cases the plain facts and the words of a third party can be...

Tags: Blogging, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Let’s talk about the economics of great journalism

Responding to various recent postings about journalism, including Ethan Zuckerman, Seth Godin, Dan Gillmor, Amy Gahran and Lisa Williams. I think the economics of journalism and ethics are deeply related and we tend to talk about them separately, emphasizing the dying channels for distribution at the expense of understanding the...

Tags: Journalism, Coverage, Reporter, News, ON24, Team Management, Benefits, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-01-19

The emerging case for open business methods

The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...

Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Please, give me a few billion, pretty please

Please, give me a few billion, pretty pleaseThis is a tough callI say Yes to the handout to keep the many, many thousands of people who work for GM and it's affiliates employed. I say No to giving my tax dollars to a mega-corporation who can't manage its money,...

Tags: Manufacturing, jet, General Motors Corp., Please Give

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing

Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricingNo Charge for InternetTim, with every BB phone, you have to purchase Verizon's data plan ($30/mo)and, unless I am mistaken, you are NOT charged by the minute for that, it falls under your data plan. I have a BB Pearl and I use it...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Pricing, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., BlackBerry Storm availability, BlackBerry Storm, RIM BlackBerry, Wi-Fi, pricing strategy, phone

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

ManageFusion 2008

I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...

Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO'

Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, “'wantin’ and ‘gettin’ are two different things�. For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...

Tags: M&A, Liquidity, Liquidity Event, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Google, NYC transform public transit info online

Navigating the New York region's myriad and Byzantine transit systems "just got less complicated," Gov. David Pateron crowed at an event announcing the launch of Google Transit NYC, The Times reports. With not only the governor but also Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler and representatives...

Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?

Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...

Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Facebook and MySpace: Walking the security-social networking line

Security--actually insecurity--is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list. See a site that's interesting--but is really just a phishing expedition--and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit. Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do...

Tags: facebook, network, myspace, defcon, phishing, web site development, security, viruses and worms, spam and phishing, internet, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors

It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now that’s down to 450,000. Still, that’s nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyone’s a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....

Tags: China, Journalist, Beijing, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-31