Congress to Hold Hearing on Blogs

TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…

PRSA’s New York chapter is putting on what should be an interesting event on September 29 called "NY MegaTech Day."  It’s essentially a daylong seminar on blogging and new technologies for online PR.  It features prominent bloggers like Steve Rubel and BL Ochman and should provide much food for thought. The agenda is here and…

MediaPost Publications – Cymfony Meshes Blog, MSM Monitoring (tags: Blogs MediaMonitoring NewProducts) Mobile Media Measurement Firm M:Metrics Measures Gets $7 Million Invesment (tags: MediaMeasurement VC) AOL to take Blogs’ Pulse via Intelliseek (tags: Aggregation Blogs) Data Mining: SonicHealth is Yoogli Another blog monitoring tool to launch (tags: Blogs BlogMonitoring)

Heather Green over at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting writes: PaidContent and Techdirt dig through the two conflicting surveys from JupiterResearch and CLX on podcasts…and come up with the most logical line on who the audience for podcasts is….No one knows.

The premise of this blog is to share disruptive ideas and opinions. Sometimes they can be controversial, as well, especially on the rare occasions that I choose to tackle things like politics or religion. So be it. In the United States, we had a tradition of presidents serving no more than two terms starting with…

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