Today’s the 30th anniversary of the IABC Chair blog. Clarification – the 30th consecutive day since anything was posted to the blog. Fellow IABC members and bloggers Shel Holtz and Allan Jenkins have some comments about this today, and some good suggestions on what IABC can do to get back on track with the blog. […]
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The sweat shop computer games industry
If you followed the story of ea_spouse, the wife of the Electronic Arts employee who wrote in her personal blog a from-the-heart tale about working conditions and practices at the game developer and the effects on her husband and family, a report in the New York Times throws some more light on what it’s like […]
Amnesty for Windows XP pirates
Microsoft is offering an olive branch to users of pirated versions of Windows XP, eWeek reports. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the Windows XP Counterfeit Project in the UK, offering free replacements for what it describes as "high-quality counterfeit versions" of Windows XP. It is not yet clear, eWeek said, if the offer will be expanded to […]
Survey: The world’s most respected companies and leaders
Following the Wall Street Journal’s report last week on the most respected companies in three European countries comes the Financial Times and PriceWaterhouseCoopers with a much wider and in-depth report on the world’s most respected companies. Both the FT’s and PWC’s websites contain a wealth of detailed information from this 7th annual survey, which questioned […]
Success for Half-Life 2 piracy control
When I installed Half-Life 2 last weekend, I was intrigued by how the whole experience in installing the game was so integrated with connecting to Steam’s servers online as part of the installation process to authenticate that I had a legitimate copy. This authentication seems to be ongoing and extends to playing the game. I’ve […]
The free-falling US dollar
How much worse can it get? The Wall Street Journal says today: Skeptical markets drove the dollar to another all-time low Thursday against the euro, with the European currency climbing above $1.32 for the first time. The euro rose to a new high for a third consecutive day, breaking through Wednesday’s record of $1.3178. It […]
A perfect visualization
Here’s a great contribution to the growing amount of information out there on the broad topic of why an organization should blog: Imagine a room with tens of thousands of your customers talking about your company and your products. That’s one way to think about the blogging community (the blogosphere). The choice for companies is […]
Tune in to Wiki Radio
Spend an amusing 25 minutes or so listening to Wiki Radio. Chat/music/phone-in radio show format. A highly entertaining way to understand what wikis are all about. (Via Ross Mayfield’s del.ico.us links for 2004-11-25)
The audience also controls how you communicate
The Wired story a few days ago on a survey carried out by The Washington Post into the changing reading habits of its 18- to 34-years-old readership segment is also significant from an organizational communication point of view. What the Washington Post survey showed was that people in this age range just aren’t interested in […]
Target’s reality trip
So US retailer Target Corporation is offering marijuana for sale on its e-commerce website. Is this a pending PR crisis in the blogosphere? Steve Rubel thinks so. I’d be inclined to agree with Steve. Start with the blogosphere – as in Nathan Weinberg’s post at Inside Google with its headline “Taget [sic] pushes drugs” – […]
The Incredibles is just that
We went to see The Incredibles yesterday which opened in The Netherlands last Thursday. I’d agree with every comment I’ve seen on many blogs already – an astounding film, definitely worth seeing. From Pixar Studios via Disney, who did Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo. If you’ve seen any of Pixar’s […]
UK PR agency groups in merger talks
Chime Communications and Incepta, the listed public relations companies that own some of the UK’s best-known consultancies, have held extensive merger talks. The Daily Telegraph reports that discussions between the two groups took place earlier this month but failed to reach an agreement on the terms of a possible merger. However, the prospect of a […]
Ukraine blogs
[BBC News image] Headline news items on nearly every TV station and online media site is what’s happening in Ukraine. For instance, this latest report from BBC News. And this from the Kyiv Post. There are increasing numbers of blogs being written by people inside Ukraine and elsewhere, with comments and views that reflect the […]
Sound advice for pitching bloggers
While Google searching relating to a communication project I’m working on, I came across an interesting article on the PRSA website about pitching bloggers. Nothing to do with what I was searching for, but it made me stop and read it. Consider these key points from the article: The most important thing a publicist can […]
TypePad holiday giveaway
From an announcement on 25 November in the Everything TypePad blog: Starting [this] week, TypePad customers will be able to visit TypePad.com and purchase “the gift of a TypePad” for anyone on their holiday shopping list at a special holiday promotional price. An annual subscription of our TypePad Basic, Plus and Pro services will be […]
Google stumbles with desktop search
In PC World‘s January 2005 edition: “Google Desktop Search puts the index of your data in a well-known place on your hard drive,” says Stephen Green, principal investigator of the Advanced Search Technologies Group at Sun Microsystems. “It’s only a matter of time before there is a spyware application or a worm that sends your […]
IABC Chair blog: About to be relaunched?
Brian Kilgore asks: Is the IABC chairman’s blog dead or alive? It does look dead. No new posts since 24 October (the 30-day anniversary of no posts was marked last week). While the IABC Chair blog is still there, the link to it has now disappeared from the home page of IABC’s main website. So […]
Konfabulator bugfix release
If you use the excellent Konfabulator for Windows released earlier this month (see post), a bugfix version has just been released. The new version 1.8.1 fixes some issues with widgets not running if you delete Konfabulator files from your temp folder. Details in the support forum. Konfabulator for Windows download page
It’s about Target’s reputation
It has been interesting seeing the different reactions to the Target marijuana story during the past few days. Web Pro News has a good summary of events, including an explanation of how Target’s e-commerce website works as a front-end for Amazon.com. Whatever you see on Target’s website, they don’t really sell marijuana, it seems. Neither […]
Apple blogs
I’ve not seen this news on any blogs – maybe I just missed it – but Apple started a corporate* blog on 28 November. The Apple Blog * CORRECTION: No, it’s not actually a corporate blog, as pointed out in the comments to this post. Not even an Apple blog. It’s a blog about Apple.