Category: Public Relations

  • WordPress acquires TextPattern?

    After publishing my previous post about blog spam, I spotted this news item in my WP Admin Dashboard: On behalf of the WordPress community, I’m proud to announce a merger we’ve had on our minds since the first time we…

  • Credibility isn’t equal to authority

    Who’s to be believed about the 60% Windows Vista code rewrite story which has been a lively discussion topic in a number of blogs during the past few days? According to Robert Scoble, it’s flat-out not true. He says his…

  • Naked PR

    There’s a new PR blog in town – Strumpette, described as a naked journal of the PR business. Not quite your average PR blog, though. And Chicago-based author Amanda Chapel certainly isn’t your average PR blogger. From her bio page:…

  • FUD surrounds Vista

    Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s postponement of the consumer launch of Windows Vista comes bad news about the actual code of the product, reported yesterday by Australian tech magazine Smarthouse: Up to 60% of the code in the new…

  • Spinning Vista and grassroots resentment

    So Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Vista will be delayed in its public release for consumers, not coming out until early 2007 instead of the expected later in 2006. Not surprisingly, this news has already attracted wide commentary in mainstream…