Category Archives: General

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 [...]

Links & comments

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 [...]

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?

Who’s your blog mama?

Tom Shugart is one lucky guy, ’cause he has a blog mama who takes care of him: HEY BABY–IT’S YOUR BLOG MAMA TALKIN’! DON’T GIMME NO LIP, NOW, JUS GET YOURSELF BACK ONLINE TO THAT BLOG AND I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ONE LITTLE WORD ABOUT IT. DON’T TELL MAMA YOU BUSY, DON’T TELL MAMA [...]

PR meets the WWW, reloaded

There has to be a first post, even for a sequel blog – so here goes. My old blog is still at http://weblog.basturea.com; there’s a link to it in the right side menu. I still have to add the about page, the blogroll, the favicon, the Creative Commons license, and so on. They’ll be up [...]