Monthly Archives April 2005

Four interviews: Sambrook, Ozzie, Pryor, Bray

Interview with Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC Global News Division – Hypergene MediaBlog, April 11, 2005 In this e-mail interview with Sambrook in March, 2005, he explains how participatory media strengthens the BBC’s core values; the BBC’s role shifting from broadcaster and mediator to facilitator, enabler and teacher; and forthcoming projects such as the [...]

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The Contagious Media Showdown workshops (May 7, NYC) will include an Identity Correction by the Yes Men (emphasis added): In this keynote, the Yes Men will show you how to impersonate the world’s most powerful corporations and organizations. You will learn the process of "identity correction", a special kind of contagious media that helps activists [...]

Remember

"No medium can survive the institutional laziness of its writers" is, if I remember, the lesson bloggers believe they taught Dan Rather. Too bad it’s a lesson some quickly forgot. Allan Jenkins, Desirable Roasted Coffee

Somebody’s selling Google ads for your PR blog (and it’s not you)

Excerpts of postings from PR blogs are republished, with new permalinks, on pages featuring Google ads. Do their authors know about and approve this practice?

“Do as I say”

If your doctor was fat and a smoker, would you listen to his advice about the importance of a healthy lifestyle? John Wagner – Ketchum’s CEO And The PR Week "Interview" That Wasn’t

The preparation for Global PR Blog Week 2.0 has started – and you’re invited to participate

WHAT: The Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online conference on how new media technologies are changing the practice of Public Relations and corporate communications. We’re talking weblogs and participatory journalism, wikis, podcasting, and RSS – but the list of topics is open. WHEN: Sometime between May and October 2005. WHERE: The conference planning [...]

Pope John Paul II has died

May God rest his soul.