PR meets the WWW / Constantin Basturea’s weblog

James Governor: The web browser as a coccyx, HTML as an appendix

Behold the power of the metaphor! :)

To be human is to be imperfect. We die. We make mistakes.

Sometimes we run from our fallibility by being decisive. But doubt is the natural human state, and decisiveness — more addictive than anything you might shoot into your veins — is often based on a superstitious belief in the magic of action.

David Weinberger, The Cluetrain Manifesto, pag. 122

Maybe charts are only elitist when I’m not on them?

Richard MacManus, Read/Write Web

[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 handouts were always clearly marked to indicate who wrote them, and on whose behalf. Before, handouts had been “planted” without naming the source, or information was leaked by anonymous tips.

James E. Grunig and Todd Hunt, Managing Public Relations, 1984, p. 33

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 biases of links | Many-to-Many

Education and training are different things. The first is a foghorn and the second is a dialogue.

David Tebbutt (in a comment on Bazaarz…)

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 behind the links that you provide or the pictures you post or the commentors that you attract

if youre going to do what it takes and stay up late and work to tweak your blog, make it a direct reflection of your soul

whats yr soul?

its the picture you have in your head of you as a little kid

its the good part of you that will get compared to the adult part of you to see how it matches up

if youre ever lost think about that little picture or that elementary school picture of you with your chipped front tooth or fucked up hair and say

am i living up to the hopes and dreams of that excellent kid

or have i sold out to the fears of society and become a tool and echo of a fat guy in a little coat.

i have sold out in many ways but my ultimate goal is to be the man that that little kid wanted to be when he grows up.

and since i’ll never make the major leagues, at least my blog can grow up to be the blog it always wanted to be, instead.

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