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Full story: 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 view is backed up by a number of other Microsoft employee bloggers. I posted on this story last week and that post attracted some discussion over the weekend, in which Robert was a lively participant. The thrust of that post…
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Full story: 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: […] Bottom line professionally speaking, I am 5’ 4†tall, athletic, Pantine shoulder-length black hair, perfect perky boobs. I present well and am most accomodating. I’ve slept with clients. I sleep with my boss. I am the consummate PR strumpette.…
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Full story: FIR Speakers & Speeches – Neville and Shel at IAOC/PRSA luncheon: March 24, 2006
Content summary: Shel (in person) and Neville (via Skype) present the keynote address at the luncheon session of “Where Content and Technology Meet” on Friday, March 24, 2006 at the Radisson Hotel in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The conference was organized by the International Association for Online Communications, and members of the Philadelphia chapter of PRSA were invited (about 20 attended). You can download the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied the talk so you can follow along as you listen. Note: the…
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Full story: Time-changing should be automatic
The clocks changed overnight and we’re now officially in summertime. Where I am, in the Central European Time zone (CET), it’s now GMT +2. In my home, I have a lot of clocks (about 12 at the last count including the VCR, the oven and the microwave). Except for two of them, that means manually changing the time. The two I mentioned are electronic with a radio connection to an atomic clock somewhere in Europe (in Germany, I think) and…
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Full story: AjaxWrite wants to take on Microsoft Word
What if there were an alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? asks Michael Robertson. And, he says, it should be free so consumers didn’t have to pay $499 for Microsoft Office. Robertson has just produced such a tool called AjaxWrite, released a couple of days ago. All you need to use it is a browser and an internet…











