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Full story: It’s not good to Google in any language
Do you Google? Everyone does, but Google would prefer that you didn’t use their trademarked name as a verb: Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb. Of course they have to […]
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Full story: WordPress rocks on
When you like a particular software application or business service, it’s good to see when others like the same things. Makes you think that you made a good choice when you see overwhelmingly good opinions about that application or service. That’s the case with WordPress, the platform that powers this blog. Since version 2.0 was […]
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Full story: Tom Murphy’s shiny new blog
Veteran Irish PR blogger Tom Murphy has opened a new shop with a brand new blog – Murphy’s Law: […] I’m putting PR Opinions in mothballs and moving to a shiny new blog which will continue to discuss the finer elements of Public Relations, still moan at the hype, but will also cover more diverse […]
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #164: August 17, 2006
Content summary: Listener feedback on the 2006 Podcast Awards; Apple’s cease-and-desist orders concerning use of the iPod name; employee at UK telco Orange suspended for racial post on political blog; blogs, wikis and forums sway consumer opinion; podcast transcription and Amazon Mechanical Turk; Google’s Blogger upgrade; Dell battery recall: communication issues and opportunities; Dan York […]
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Full story: The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent
When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the world where the blogger is a country’s leader, assuming that Mr Ahmadenijad is writing his […]