Steven Cohen, PubSub‘s librarian, has announced recently a couple of new features for PubSub’s Community Lists (as you might remember, the PR Community List was launched on November 7, 2005): in addition to the daily LinkRanks, the list has a ranking based on a 30 day average of LinkRanks you can search across the blogs [...]
February 2005: VNU (owner of ACNielsen and Nielsen Media Research) acquires an equity interest in Israeli-based Trendum, a leader in media and linguistic analysis technologies. September 2005: Trendum acquires BuzzMetrics; the new company adopted the BuzzMetrics name. January 17, 2006: BuzzMetrics acquires Intelliseek. The combined company, BuzzMetrics, Inc., will operate under the Nielsen BuzzMetrics brand. [...]
Update: Here’s a challenge for the blog savvy nominees. Let’s see: 3 out of the 5 finalists in the 2006 Best Use of the Internet category are blog-related; two of the agencies nominated for the prize are blogging. Next: 3 out of the 5 finalists in the in the PR Innovation of the Year category [...]
Edelman and Technorati have published the final report on their blogging survey, titled “Public RelationSHIPS: Communications in the Age of Personal Media” (PDF). There are two introductory pieces written by Richard Edelman and Peter Hirshberg (Technorati’s Executive VP), and there’s an interesting comparison between the “old” and “new” PR school. The page dedicated to the [...]
This is a (rather long) update on the PR blogs list I maintain: The PR Blogs List (about) was indexing 330 weblogs on December 31st, 2005. Below you’ll find a list of new (to me) blogs that I found in December 2005 and January 2006. Most of them have been added to Headlines from PR [...]
Paul Valery: “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” [source]