Posted on November 30, 2004 5:20 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Why, oh why, am I adding this post? God knows, half the blogs in the blogosphere will be noting this. Maybe it’s because I haven’t seen it posted on other PR blogs yet. In any case, here goes:
Reuters reports that the word “blog” tops dictionary publisher Merriam Webster’s top 10 words of 2004.
Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as “a Web site that contains an…
Posted on November 30, 2004 10:19 am by Shel Holtz | General
All of today’s posts come from my very nice room at the Chicago Fairmont with its glorious view of the lake. I’m here at the Ragan Web Content conference through Thursday, then off to New Orleans through Sunday. As always, I’ll post when I can. I’ll also try to toss out some posts from sessions at the conference.
Posted on November 30, 2004 10:12 am by Shel Holtz | General
Allan Jenkins reports that Swedish TV producer Per Gudmundson—author of a popular blog—has been told by Swedish Public Television to stop blogging. The network is already under fire for an appearance of impartiality, and Gudmondson explains, “My boss says the blog runs counter to our policy of refraining from public commentary and action that could be construed as biased.” Gudmondon’s blog is, unsurprisingly, written…
Posted on November 26, 2004 12:56 pm by Shel Holtz | General
It’s not hard to make the case that Sun Microsystems’ abject hatred of Microsoft has led it to make decisions designed more to beat the Redmond behemoth than benefit its own shareholders. It’s somewhat surprising, then, to hear Sun’s CIO, Jonathan Scwhartz, defend Microsoft as a company loaded with talented people who are working hard to create useful and innovative stuff. It’s on a podcast—the
Posted on November 26, 2004 9:04 am by Shel Holtz | General
Tom Murphy, responding to my post about a company paying bloggers to mention their service, doesn’t think it’s much to worry about. “I think it should be easy enough to spot if any marketing bloggers are in this program. I think it would be quite hard to subtly post an entry on “hosted communications management services.”
Tom also agrees that the trend could lead to bloggers pitching…
Posted on November 25, 2004 5:12 pm by Shel Holtz | General
If blogs represent citizen journalism, the credibility of these citizen journalists will be called into question if the practice about to be launched on 15 blogs becomes commonplace. This Monday, 15 bloggers will begin including at least one post a week that mentions a company’s service in exchange for $800 each month. While the paid bloggers are urged but not required to…
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