Month: February 2008
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Consequences for not having a blogging policy
All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by. Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging. At least, that’s what it looked…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #320: February 18, 2008
Content summary: FIR Interview with Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund, posted; FIR Report from Ronna Porter on IABC EuroComm posted; listener poll on FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio: results so far; the Gawker vs Edelman kerfuffle; CNN fires producer for…
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The key for Microsoft and Yahoo
It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google…
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FIR Interview: Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund – Feb 17, 2008
What did it take to capture the imagination of people and inspire them to take action that, collectively, tranformed into a movement of support, including financial, that gathered spontaneous and rapid momentum primarily via the micro-blogging online community that is…
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Defining the press release
Richard McManus recounts an email exchange with Business Wire in which the news distribution service said companies and marketers can use Business Wire to bypass journalists and bloggers to get into key news sources like Techmeme and search engine results.…