What happens with PubSub’s PR Community List: On June 6, 2006, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch wrote about “massive layoffs” at PubSub, indicating an “imminent” shutdown. It’s unclear to me what’s the company’s current situation; there were no official announcements, so we’ll have to wait and hope for the best. Unfortunately, Steven M. Cohen, my partner [...]
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Why Strumpette is not in the PR Blogs List
On Monday (May 15) I received an e-mail signed by Amanda Chapel, asking me why the April update for the PR Blogs List has no mention of Strumpette. Here’s why: The list includes weblogs about PR and communication. That’s not what Strumpette is about, in my opinion. Strumpette is a troll‘s blog. The listed blogs [...]
New PR & Comm Blogs – April 2006
Long time, no see :) Anyway — here’s the April update for the PR Blogs List; plus: a rant about the lack of PR academic blogs, a farewell to one of the first PR corporate blogs, and a “help wanted” announcement. Back to the update: the list has currently 464 feeds. If you’re not familiar [...]
Keith O’Brien is blogging!
Keith O’Brien, editor of PRWeek.com and author of great articles on how new technologies are changing the PR practice, is blogging at Ubiquitous Marketing. Subscribed. Great to see that Keith has decided to open his own front porch :)
Thinking out loud: Is the PR blogosphere fragmenting?
Kamy Huise writes on the Marcom Blog and on her blog about an interesting hypothesis: that as the number of PR weblogs grows, the “PR blog community” will become fragmented in small groups: With the growth of the community well beyond the natural 150-person limit that tends to organically form, I hypothethize that the community [...]
FPRA Blog Week starts today
The Florida Public Relations Association starts its online conference today. Although titled “FPRA Blog Week“, the conference is not about blogging: We want to showcase how a blog can be used as an innovative approach to mainstream practices. For this reason, we will publish only one article about blogs. The other articles will be about [...]
New PR & Comm Blogs – March 2006
A little bit later than planned, but here it is: the list of new feeds added to the PR Blogs List. The feeds are ordered in non-exclusive categories, just to make them more reader-friendly :) The total number of feeds, as of today (April 8, 2006), is 446. A little bit of background for those [...]