Top Tech Products of the Decade Were All About Communications

HuffPost has a “top 11″ list of tech products of the decade, and I was stunned at how many of them were communications tools that radically reshaped the way we think, interact, and entertain ourselves.
Among HuffPo’s top 11:

iPod: little needs to be said, except, do you remember your life before having gigabytes of music in [...]

Cosmetics Gravy Train Stops for Beauty Blogger, and She Blames PR

Here’s an interesting post from the other side of the PR/blogger divide: it’s a well written, well reasoned post by a beauty blogger about her experience dealing with PR for cosmetics and other personal care products.
After starting her blog in 2007, she says she was besieged with free product — full-size samples of everything she [...]

Great insights into New York Times blogging

MyRagan.com has a great article  by Paul Boutin, a Times freelancer and VentureBeat.com writer, about the nuts and bolts of blogging for the New York Times. It’s free today but may go behind Ragan’s paid sub firewall soon so check it out while you can.
Inside peek: How The New York Times handles its blogs
Excerpt:

In many [...]

New York Times Bloggers Dish With PR Pros

Three New York Times writers/bloggers sat down for a lively panel discussion on the second day of the Media Relations Summit in NYC: Andrew Ross Sorkin of DealBook, Saul Hansell of Bits, and Tara Parker-Pope of Well. Following are notes from each:
Hansell:
Interested in: spot news, little things, debates, interactive features, news analysis and commentary, stuff [...]

All Together Now: Bloggers Are Real Media!

Thank you, City of Long Beach, CA, for giving us all another reminder that the world has changed and that there’s this new thing called the Internet and a new medium called “blogs” and that together they are “new media.”
The story: An aviation blog called “The Cranky Flier” got a good little story: that JetBlue [...]

Blogger Research is an Unavoidable Chore

I’m in the midst of creating a fairly important list of bloggers for a client. When completed, this list has the potential to generate key publicity for this client. Yet unlike creating a list of mainstream media targets, I’m finding this process more and more tedious.
The reason is implicit in the nature of blogging — [...]

Arrington Gets Spat On, Gets Death Threats

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington reports that media relations has gone to a whole new level of bad: he was spat upon this week and was the subject of a death threat last summer.
Serious stuff, and seriously out-of-bounds, it goes without saying. Arrington writes a blog, for godsakes. Yes, it is influential, but no company’s life or [...]

Show a little love to build blogger relations

News bloggers who are competing on a minute-by-minute basis with other blogs — such as the feverish competition among technology gadget blogs — are always hungry for an exclusive, or at least to the get the news about a new product a few minutes before the competition.
So the next time you have a story such [...]

Is PR Being Infested With Ex-Journalists?

Every day, it seems, there are fresh reports of journalists hungrily moving over into PR for the paycheck. Still, the attitude about PR from the media never changes. Even as their friends go into PR, know-nothing journalists continue to lambast the profession. I know why, of course: because we have almost no professional standards of [...]

Eating My Own Dog Food: Keep Posting to Your Blog!

Quick history: I posted 4-5 times a week for BNET when this blog was there, even posting in advance while I travelled with my family in Europe over the summer. So after that blog ended earlier this month, I breathed a sigh of relief. No more blogging every day if I didn’t want to, right? [...]

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