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Full story: 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 appear thick and fast to some of his posts since he was appointed to his new job last Friday. I think we’re seeing something quite extraordinary happening in a couple of ways. First, extraordinary in that it is a senior…
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Full story: 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 impacts of change in these professions being brought about by social media. Download the conversation here (MP3, 11.3 MB), or sign up for the Interviews RSS feed to get it and our future interviews automatically. For automatic synchronization with your…
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Full story: 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 own, whether deliberate or accidental. Accidental plagiarism is usually the result of poor citation or referencing or of poor preparation or a misunderstanding of plagiarism. Deliberate plagiarism is an attempt to claim another person’s work as one’s own. An unacknowledged…
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Full story: 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 multiple reasons why this interests me. First of all, I lived in Costa Rica for much of the 1980s and new president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias was also Costa Rica’s president for much of the time when…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #135: May 8, 2006
Content summary: FIR Dine-Around at the IABC Vancouver conference; WIPO copyright update; UK plans to license/regulate podcasters; USC/Annenberg GAP IV study; promote your podcast at PodcastDay 2006; ‘Delivering The New PR’ conference on May 12; ‘Beyond Blogging’ on May 19; collaborative communication tools: Skypecasting and Waxxi, Second Life and MySpace.com; Lee Hopkins reports; Maine blogger ad agency lawsuit dropped; David Philips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming FIR interviews with Tom Foremski and Christopher Carfi; the music. Show notes for May…
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