Posted on January 31, 2005 8:55 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business | External | Media
Fredrik Wacka cautions against using a corporate blog in a crisis. Caution in a crisis is always good counsel, but one of Wacka’s primary arguments needs closer scrutiny.
In a crisis, emotion is in play more than logic. Publics have emotional responses to crises, which means companies can never come out ahead by engaging in rational debate no matter how right they…
Posted on January 31, 2005 8:23 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
For a while, Fastlane seemed to be Bob Lutz’s very own blog. The vice chairman of General Motors was the only person posting items despite an introduction that characterized the blog as a forum for GM executives (plural). Neville Hobson points out that Powertrain Group VP Tom Stephens has joined the party. Read Neville’s post for details.
Posted on January 31, 2005 8:01 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
If you, like me, have ever been assaulted by content spam, it’s enlightening to read an interview with a professional link spammer in today’s Register. “Sam” uses open proxies to spam blogs, which he says is legal (as opposed to e-mail spam). His clients are PPCs (pills, porn and casinos), which earn between 100,000 and 200,000 pounds per month from their sites, of which Sam…
Posted on January 28, 2005 9:15 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
In the first iteration of the Don Middleberg-Steven Ross “Media in Cyberspace” study several years ago, reporters and editors said they used newsgroups (message board, bulletin boards, forums) for story fodder. Most often they visited the boards for information about a story they were already covering, but some trolled message boards looking for story ideas.
Heath Row from FastCompany magazine (the guy behind the…
Posted on January 28, 2005 8:20 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
A lot of people apparently never got the word that the blog-vs.-journalism debate was over. I’m reading more commentaries by journalists now than I was before the end of the issue was proclaimed. The latest comes from Slate editor-at-large Jack Shafer, published in today’s National Post. Shafer has no issue with bloggers, only the notion that somehow they represent the end of…
Posted on January 27, 2005 11:16 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Immediately after September 11, most of the world reached out to the US in sympathy and friendship. Since then, relationships have eroded and around the world people have increasingly come to hate America. Graduate students at UC Berkeley are launching a blog to explore the phenomenon. The blog, to be launched in the next few weeks, will encourage conversations with…
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