PR meets the WWW / Constantin Basturea’s weblog

May you live in safety.
Be happy.
Be healthy.
Live with ease.

Last December and this January, the online community came together as never before to help in the aid efforts in South-East Asia. The lessons learned there were put to use, and improved upon, when the other tragic events of the year unfolded.

Can we harness that goodwill, that togetherness, that willingness to help once more?

Where to donate:

• List of aid organizations | The Boxing Day Tsunami - Tsunami Help Wiki
• List of aid organizations | Hurricane Katrina - Katrina Help Wiki
• List of aid organizations | Pakistan Quake - Quake Help Wiki

[tag: disaster remembrance week]

• Elizabeth Albrycht: The State of the Future
• Chris Anderson: The Probabilistic Age - People are “so uncomfortable” with Wikipedia, Google, and weblogs “because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale”
• The Edublog Awards 2005 Winners
• Loic Le Meur: Survey of bloggers in France | Press release: La blogosphère en ébullition (PDF)
• Andy Lark: PR Not Measuring Up - “Too many organizations I talk to are only looking to measure where Executives demand it. It’s not viewed as a key ingredient in strategic planning and establishing a proactive dialog with the business. As a result, it’s not resourced or budgeted for.”
• Alan Gutierrez: Big Blogging - “The Big Three, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Steel. Who will be Big Blogging? What form will it take? What do real bloggers think the 5 Steps for Fortune 500 blogging should be?”
• Elisa Camahort: Let’s be fair, Scoble! - “Here’s an example of the kind of knee-jerk business blog-cynicism bloggers engage in, coming, ironically, from one of the uber-business-bloggers, Robert Scoble.”
• John Wagner: Open your eyes to the next wave of PR bloggers
• The Project for Excellence in Journalism: Seigenthaler and Wikipedia – Lessons and Questions: A Case Study on the Veracity of the “Wiki” concept
• WSJ.com: Wikipedia’s Woes. Tumultuous Weeks for Internet Encyclopedia Bring Furor Over Anonymity, Accountability
• ZDnet: Wikipedia alternative aims to be ‘PBS of the Web’
• Shel Israel: Larry Weber Talks Social Web at Syndicate.

Here: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 (RSS).

Winston Churchill:

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”

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• Matt Galloway: Is Engaging Online Detractors Scalable?
• danah boyd: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler
• David Berlind: Podcast interview with Ross Mayfield, Socialtext: Flap over Wikipedia won’t slow down enterprise Wikis
• Renee Blodget: Doc Searls’s final keynote at Syndicate
• David Berlind: Sun’s Schwartz@Syndicate — “”I could not sit in front of you and say transparency is important at Sun and then have a ghost-writer write my blog.”
• David Berlind: Where HP goes (into the ‘live Web’), perhaps your business should follow
• Boston Phoenix: I like to watch | Video blogging is ready for its close-up (page 2 | page 3)
• Chris Thilk starts Bacon’s blog (via Steve Rubel).

“Lookups for ‘integrity’ have steadily increased over the past few years, and this year it is clearly the most looked-up word,” said John M. Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster. “We’re not sure how to account for the increase in interest in this particular word, except that people do often look up the meanings of words that have special significance to current events and issues. Perhaps it’s not too much of a stretch to think that recent political and social developments have made the word integrity particularly appropriate to issues that people are talking about.” [source | top 10 words for 2005]