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From the history of press releases
[Ivy] Lee‘s policy of press relations also can be seen in his use of the handout, or press release as we call it today. Lee made more extensive use of the handout than anyone before him, and frequently suffered the wrath of the press for doing so. But Lee made the press release respectable. His [...]
What’s in a link?
When the data being measured has inconsistent structure rules, any ranking metric is inherently flawed. In blogs, there’s no consistency for what a link means, no consistent social norms for blogrolls, no agreed-upon links norms. Metrics inherently squish out this nuance and force all of the square pegs into the round holes. danah boyd, the [...]
Education ? training
Education and training are different things. The first is a foghorn and the second is a dialogue. David Tebbutt (in a comment on Bazaarz…)
Half of NYTimes.com registered users are Influentials
So says a new Roper study: The Roper study of 4,120 NYTimes.com registered users found that 48 percent meet the criteria for Influentials. This year’s results are consistent with findings from similar studies conducted by Roper among NYTimes.com members in 2001 and 2003, which showed that 43 and 50 percent of NYTimes.com members, respectively, were [...]
Phil Gomes @ Edelman
Congrats to Phil Gomes for his new job as online communications senior counsel for Edelman! The job description sounds really cool: One doesn’t want to say too much at this time, but it’s safe to say based on the title that whatever I’ll be doing will have something to do with blogs, syndication, wikis, and [...]
Tony Pierce: Blogosphere welcome and instructions
this is what i hope from the new generation of blogs that were created in the last twenty minutes that its taken me to get it together and write this post: you will have the courage to write your blog out of honesty, transparency, openmindedness, and creativity. tell us what you really think. dont hide [...]