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Outsourcing The News

Outsourcing The NewsJournalistsDon't make me laugh. For at least ten years now, journalism has been reduced to cut-and-paste editing of the newswire reports.Yeah, but...This is a worthwhile subject to consider. The money-driven media that we have now dances to the tune of their advertisers, and even PBS with...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PBS, media, Professional Journalist, advertiser, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Now public: newspapers are dead

Now public: newspapers are deadApples and OrangesThe comparisons should be between blogs and newspapers, and between professonal journalists and citizen journalists.I have a hard time eating breakfast with a PC on the table instead of a newspaper. And I certainly can't take a PC into the bathroom to read...

Tags: Blogging, citizen journalist, blog, Professional Journalist

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

Additional Resources

When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?

Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....

Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Where's the disruption from the Internet?

After leaving the Financial Times in mid-2004 to become a professional "blogger/journalist" I began to think intensely about the nature of media and its changes. Coming from the old world and now jumping into the deep-end of the new world, it triggered some very interesting insights into the nature of...

Tags: Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-21

News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet

Blog posts 2009-08-20

5 years of insights and lessons as a professional "journalist - blogger"

It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey. I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a...

Tags: Newspaper, Blogger, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Public relations fail: A lesson and a rant

This is not a PR thingThis is a email etiquette thing. Whenever somebody emails in bulk, BCC should be used. This ranges from sending a link to those puppies on YouTube you know who you are to professional ads.Not entirely, but kind of isHarry,I don't disagree with you that this...

Tags: Blogging, public relations, rant

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

PR Blues

Immediately prior to an event, such as IDG World Expo's OpenSource World or VMware's VMworld, suppliers having something new to offer and planning an announcement at the event do their best to "get out the word out" to analysts, consultants and journalists (A/C/Js). This means that public relations, analyst relations...

Tags: Analyst, Supplier, A/C/Js, AR/PR/MR, Side Effect, Public Relations, Channel Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Sunset for the tanning business

Sunset for the tanning businessApparentlyattractive, assertive, confident women intimidate you.This is a serious issue but......you just had to make it about Sarah Palin, didn't you. RE: Sunset for the tanning businessWhy do you continue to push this story when it is CLEARLY FALSE. You know its FALSE.One exposure...

Tags: SECURITY, Sarah Palin, tanning bed

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

File format blues

File format bluesTry to educateWhen I receive a *x file, I usually respond with a note to the sender that the file is unreadable, and would he/she please check the program's default format settings and then re-send as .doc, .xls, etc.As others have noted, most of the time the sender...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Word processors, Microsoft Office, File format blue, WordStar, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless?

Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless?RE: Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless?ATT needs to dump cash to up the network ante.....and fast.american math"AT&T?s retail churn rate has improved to 1.2 percent, still behind Verizon?s 1.14 percent. " I don't know about american mathematics but...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, ATT, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for Microsoft

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for MicrosoftWhat happens?How will it work if the internet is down, or you do not have connectivety for some reason?How is it fair for this OS to have the browser embedded so deeply in it, but Google argues against Microsoft doing that to the...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

FTC to go after product reviews bloggers who accept freebies

FTC to go after product reviews bloggers who accept freebiesFTC are puppets like most of our governmentWhen you have special interests in Washington buying lawmakers left and right, it seems pretty stupid for the FTC to be wasting time on some amateur reviewer with a day job who wrote a...

Tags: Blogging, FTC, blogger, product reviews blogger, freeby, Izea

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible

Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleSorry Chris... an effort to do something is better than no effort. ntntNo, but it sure makes the Thetans angry.]:)Scientology - shrugIt's better to keep 'm exposed as warped 'personality-tests' doing whackos.RE: Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleChris, I agree with...

Tags: Wiki, Scientology, Wikipedia, Banning Scientology

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

How a student fooled the world's media

On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...

Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities

Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesHow about being a real journalistand giving us a count of patches in third-party open source components as opposed to actual OS X patches.One of the big complaints against Apple is that they are slow to update open source patches. So instead...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS, OSX, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch management, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

If not Windows 7, then... XP?

If not Windows 7, then... XP?Yawn. Is this the best you can do?Stick with editing, writing does not appear to be your forte.Try harder SamFor a tech writer, I wouldn't think you'd be so clueless.Vista was pure marketing and some would argue actual poison.MS has given downgrade rights forever. But...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista Users, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows Vista Enterprise

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Student suicide threat over RIAA bullying tactics

After checking Twitter a few moments ago, I was shocked, horrified and appalled at the news that a student from Chicago threatened suicide over the forceful, bullying tactics of major media corporations. I didn't think my 200th post on ZDNet would result in me saying this. ...

Tags: RIAA, Music, Thomas Perrelli, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-16

A tale of two faux pas: When transparency meets bad behavior

Earlier today yet another Twitter brouhaha erupted when a Canadian marketing professional named April Dunford was allegedly verbally attacked by David George-Cosh, a National Post tech reporter, after she apparently wouldn't take his phone call. Ian Capstick does a nice job of rehashing the battle on his MediaStyle blog so...

Tags: Twitter, April Dunford, David George-Cosh, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Letters to the President

Letters to the PresidentHammer & SickleNuff said....Because before googleno one ever submitted a written paper for review and markup. All those red marks covering my research papers in high school must have been hallucinations.RE: Letters to the PresidentLet's clarify here. This process improves TEAMWORK not CREATIVITY. When you...

Tags: NOW IT

Discussion threads 2009-01-23