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June 2007 - Posts
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Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:53 AM
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Joe Nocera has a story in today's NYT that is worth noting for two reasons. First, it's a great look at the way Apple PR responds to questions it doesn't want to answer, as in, do you really have to send the iPhone back to Apple to get the battery replaced? Read More...
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Friday, June 29, 2007 7:43 PM
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Via Dave Winer , this screamingly funny review of Pownce, Kevin Rose's latest company. Warning: foul language and it's only funny if you are mildly a geek. Still, super well written. Question: who owns the the worst web 2.0 company so far, Guy or Kevin? Read More...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:49 PM
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Andy Lark blogs today about the iPhone launch and PR strategies pursued thus far. He makes some good points. It's been something everyone who's interested in how products get to market should be looking at; it's clearly an outstanding example of creating Read More...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:42 AM
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Tom Friedman today opines about how the increasingly transparent nature of the world, and the persistence of memory that technology brings to the equation is changing the way he personally behaves. Here's the link, hidden in Times Select, and there is Read More...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:03 AM
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As we examine the ongoing evolution of the media and the role of citizen journalists in the creation and dissemination of information, let's make sure the people entering the fray from the citizen standpoint pause and recognize the contributions those Read More...
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Monday, June 25, 2007 1:43 PM
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Where is the truth here? Wired magazine (Fred V, natch) has the long-rumored profile of Mike Arrington , in print and online, along with a lede about how Mike got woken early one morning to be pitched. But there's a video from Fleck that does not...quite...live Read More...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:29 AM
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Yesterday afternoon I got an email from Dave Winer, pointing to this valleywag post and asking if I had any info. I'd taken the day off and was standing in my kitchen working on what turned out to be a very nice vegetable braise, if you subtract out the Read More...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:34 AM
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NPR's Morning Edition had a report about the Paris Air Show focusing on the PR tactics Boeing and Airbus were using at the show. It was a great illustration about how competitors use PR when they are at different places in the competitive cycle. In this Read More...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:41 PM
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Ooh, two days of snarky articles about other publications from the fine folks at Slate, this time an absolute smackdown of an Esquire article by Ron Rosenbaum. A friend once told me that reviews of bad movies are always way more fun to read/watch than Read More...
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Monday, June 18, 2007 11:01 PM
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I saw the teaser to the "internet sales slowdown" on Drudge, and then the full story in the NYT on the weekend. So I love the smackdown Jack Shafer administers in Slate Magazine on the same topic. The story, by two normally pretty solid writers, is a Read More...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:41 PM
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The debate (if you can call it that) over the weekend was about age and impact. Dave Winer has something close to the last word. This is not a win or lose debate, and I can see points on both sides. However, thank's to a blog post by Charles Fitzgerald Read More...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:25 PM
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Okay, as I've previously noted, I really don't care who Fake Steve is, but this post on the upcoming media backlash made me wonder if he's a PR person. In fact, just Friday I was talking to a reporter and in casual conversation made the point that Apple Read More...
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Friday, June 15, 2007 5:53 AM
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Earlier this week, I had the privilege to spend a day with a group of Waggener Edstrom Worldwide employees who had joined the Microsoft account team in the past year. I was thinking about this in context of my " Bad PR at Work" post on Tuesday and a reader's Read More...
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Friday, June 15, 2007 5:21 AM
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I've been fascinated by this long series Jeff Matthews is doing based on his observations of the Berkshire annual meeting. I have no view into what kind of hedge manager Matthews is, but he's a good writer. What I find interesting in this series is that Read More...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:30 AM
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Via Loose Wire , a pretty compelling view from The Guardian on not so great PR engagement. I sympathize; time is a precious asset for everyone and having a PR person call and steal time without adding anything of value has got to be an intensely frustrating Read More...
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Monday, June 11, 2007 6:55 AM
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David Carr today makes exactly the right point in looking at how the web can help/hurt with processing information. He takes the debate from the theoretical to the real by looking at results of a drug study that had the potential to affect him. He says: Read More...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:50 AM
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Say what you will about Fake Steve, he's been on a roll lately. Love how he's created a new verb "dentoned" to describe screwing up. And here, he exposes some major hypocrisy on the part of IBM. It does make me wonder where the mainstream media is on Read More...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:42 AM
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I'm traveling today on fun not business. So, Southwest Air it is -- been years since last I used this airplane. Booked online, checked in online, all good -- except I made a rookie mistake and booked a direct flight and didn't notice it stopped in Spokane Read More...
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Monday, June 04, 2007 11:59 AM
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Wow, what a shocker -- BW is having second thoughts about Second Life. Suitably snarky note from Valleywag here . All I ask is that anytime a publication comes out and repudiates a cover story within in one year of said story being on the cover, that Read More...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 9:08 PM
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Over in Invisible inkling, Ryan has 10 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers. He's got a pretty good batting average, but some of them are just off the mark. His ten (click the link for the full commentary -- it's worth it): It’s not Google’s Read More...
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 9:50 PM
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The current issue of Fortune has a great story by Jeffrey O'Brien looking at how Wii is winning in the console wars. It's long, but a must read -- Fortune has been on a roll of late (minus the awful "manage us" cover from a bit ago - truly awful stuff Read More...
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