Year: 2006
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Travelblogging India contest
If you live in India and you’re a blogger, there’s a contest running where you can win an opportunity to travel India and blog your experiences. To enter OK, Tata, Bye Bye, as the contest is called, you register on…
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Changing the nature of communication in politics
The re-located blog of newly-appointed Secretary of State for the Environment David Miliband has got off to a running start as awareness grows about the most senior member of the British government who writes a blog. Comments are beginning to…
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FIR Interview – Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher: May 9, 2006
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville and Shel enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, about online journalism, public relations, the relationships between the two, the future of the press release, and the…
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No compassion for plagiarists
Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I’m talking about plagiarism: Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s…
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Democracy in action
Yesterday, a new president of Costa Rica was sworn in during a televised ceremony that was a model of the democratic process that you take for granted in western countries but not at all in most of Latin America. There are…