January 2009
9 posts
Peter Kim has been on fire of late →
If you don’t read him, you should. Peter is really thinking deeply right now about social media, what’s right, and what’s broken.
And — he’s working at Jeff Dachis’ new (stealth) social computing/enterprise play, and that venture is set to make waves in the near-ish future. Stay tuned…
Twitter on "Brothers and Sisters" +... →
This evening my lovely wife Liz was watching the current episode of “Brothers and Sisters” only to find — right there at the 2:18 mark — Rachel Griffiths complaining about not being able to explain Twitter to a very TC50-esque panel of judges at a tech industry tradeshow.
In fact, her starup, Greenatopia, sounds suspiciously like the recently-funded GoodGuide (which...
Lyons: The Media's Rotten Reporting on Apple --... →
Apple’s famed lack of transparency (read: secrecy and constant disinformation) is finally coming back to bit them in the patootie, and Dan Lyons isn’t mincing words after his altercation with CNBC’s Jim Goldman earlier this week. A great read, espcially vis-a-vis the short-term gains and long-term losses associated with making a deal with the devil (read: the Apple PR machine).
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The truth about the meltdown →
Phil Gilbert of Lombardi Software seriously hit the nail on the head here, and I’m not just saying that because Lombardi is a client (disclosure: Lombardi is a client).
The money quotes:
Blue collar workers aren’t killing Detroit, white collar workers are. And since the entire service economy is built on white collar work, what happened in Detroit over the past thirty years and...
A New Experiment →
For those of us familiar with and passionate about social media, there is an almost infinite array of destination sites for news related to the development and use of these new technologies, many of which are excellent (DoshDosh remains my #1, if anybody’s asking). And this is of course not to mention the hundreds of links we share with each other directly via channels like Twitter and...
The Best Links 2008 →
Kottke’s list — takes awhile to get through, but definitely worth it.
What the heck is PR, anyway?
Those of you who know me well also know that I’m a little wary of writing too much about PR, PR 2.0, social media and the like. I have my reasons, but chief among them is that there are people out there doing a great job of it already (see: Brian Solis, Kyle Flaherty, Aaron Uhrmacher, Paul May/Jeremy Bencken, and many more). The second reason is that I think that actions speak louder than...
Fuck the Recession →
This is an amazing and gutsy microsite by Morgans Hotel Group (thanks, Aaron) that adds some life and levity to the recession mindset/discussion. Definitely worth checking out.
It’s obviously self-serving too, because the recession has been, and will continue to be a huge bummer for businesses like Morgans, hehe, but I’m impressed because I think that the site articulates a certain...
Gapingvoid PR Cartoon →
This PR cartoon by Hugh is just awesome. Props to David Brain, too.