links for 2007-05-24
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grandstanding or honest attempt at compromise?
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are the days of vertical search numbered?
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interesting comment from biz reporter that private equity firms are a threat to journalism
Henry Copeland of BlogAds goes ballistic on those who call blogs consumer generated media: Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the "clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus." The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it? He certainly gets wound up on the subject. And he has a point —…
IS BUZZ MARKETING ILLEGAL? “As marketers more frequently look to recruit consumers brand agents to spread goodwill for brands, industry attorneys view buzz marketing as a likely area of regulatory involvement, especially around the issue of compensating people to participate in buz (tags: BuzzMarketing WordOfMouth Marketing)
Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts. They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging. The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…
The Standards Editor of the New York Times, Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…
Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami. She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…
We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office. It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon. Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…