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KD Paine mostly gets it right in a recent column, except for the headline ("It Just Doesn’t Matter! Don’t Bother Measuring Blogs"): If you know that your customers are generating buzz in blogs or chat rooms or newsgroups, then okay, pay attention. But if what happens in the blogosphere is irrelevant to the behavior of…

Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children.  From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…

This one I just don’t understand.  Tom Foremski  takes Technorati to task over at Silicon Valley Watcher for a pay service that allows corporations to track their coverage in the blogosphere.  He writes: "I was surprised by how aggressive Technorati was in its pitch because it has a very good standing within the blogging community,…

Earlier this week I blogged about Problems with Attensa, a new feed reader that integrates with Outlook.  Word got to Mike Beale at Attensa and he reached out to me to see how he could help.  I’ve now been using it successfully for a few days and am very impressed — both with the product…

P&G debuts measurement tool calculating PR’s value – PRWeek US (tags: PRmeasurement)