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Full story: Does PR have a duty to tell the truth?
What a topic for a debate! This took place at the University of Westminster in London last Tuesday: Leading figures of the UK PR world are to hold a debate at the University of Westminster on whether ‘PR has a duty to tell the truth’. The result? According to Martin Moore who was there: PR does not have a duty to tell the truth…according to an audience of over 260 public relations executives (and me). 138 voted against the motion in last night’s…
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Full story: Rats to KFC
I saw this video report on BBC World last night about a rat infestation in a KFC restaurant in New York. Yecch! Then I thought, I bet it’s on YouTube. No prizes for that guess. Yes, there’s a video on YouTube from a FoxTV report last week. KFC has this concise statement on their corporate website: KFC/Taco Bell responds to isolated Greenwich Village, NY pest control incidentThis is an isolated incident at a single restaurant at 331 6th Avenue in…
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Full story: Upgrading to latest WordPress
If you visit this site during the next few hours, you will encounter some odd things, both in appearance and functionality, as I upgrade the site to the latest WordPress version 2.1.1. At the same time, I’ll be upgrading the K2 theme to the latest public build, 0.9.5 RC1. Or maybe not – if I encounter problems with K2 due to not being able to figure out how to make it do certain things (as I have in my experimentation),…
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Full story: DreamHost outage: Keeping the faith
If you tried to visit here during much of today, Sunday, you would have been out of luck. My hosting service, DreamHost, had a planned total power outage overnight Saturday/Sunday which resulted in every hosted website plus email being completely offline. ‘Every’ meaning just that – every individual or company who uses DreamHost, no website or email. While the outage was planned – and every customer who subscribes to the RSS feed on the DreamHost Status blog would have known about…
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Full story: RSS: The increasing influence of Google Reader
Earlier this month, I wrote about the increasing number of subscribers to this blog’s RSS feed with numbers exceeding 1,000 for the first time. Since that post, I’ve been reading quite a bit of commentary on the overall impact Google Reader is having on RSS subscriptions generally where it’s now possible to know how many people subscribe to your feed via Google Reader or their Google personalized homepage (it wasn’t possible to know this before). Most people commenting about the…
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