With the start of the new year, Conversations resumes with a slate of interesting guests and topics already scheduled.
Steve Rubel labels the latest activity of "swarms of citizen journalists … mobilizing to settle scores" as "vigilante journalism." It’s an apt name for the phenomenon and it will be interesting to see how the debate moves on this. Frankly, I’m torn. Bloggers certainly have the write to "kvetch" (as BL Ochman woud say), but…
The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging. The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics? Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts? Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…
cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)
BL Ochman reports: MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.
Matthew Hurst notes that David Sifry of Technorati appears to be making the rounds of major PR firms, likely to let them know about his company’s professional blog monitoring product (reportedly soon to be released). He also observes: There is no doubt that blogs are an important part of the equation, but the world of…