1. Will the Post-Intelligencer Flip the Switch in Seattle? You know, go online-only. (Is online the onliest medium?) With Hearst's Ken Riddick and the PI's Michelle Nicolosi working through the what-ifs, we may have a new, great test to watch. We’d be able to compare the online PI to the Seattle s...

Yesterday saw representatives from the UK’s financial journalism industry give evidence to a House of Commons Treasury Committee inquiry into the banking crisis. So what conclusions were drawn about the media’s ‘role’ in the crisis? A fairly resounding ‘it wasn’t ...

Image via CrunchBase I don’t ever like to see anyone fail, but I suppose success in the Digital Age has created a new set of Rules ! I have found to date a few solid efforts in the application category which I use !  Zemanta Twitter Adaptive Blue Glue Mac Journal and Evernote ! Louis Gray as ...

In such a me-manner, I began editing and paring down another entry from my UCC Social Media Case Study and I ended up with more text than I began with. The following, an address of "social media strategy/implementation" versus engineering, the importance of reading books, talking with peop...

Continuing my thread on cognitive dissonance... :-) �It is normal to expect that the spouse is a man.� That's Kai Telanne for you, CEO of Alma Media, commenting on the Korhonen affair which has been making headlines in Scandinavia this week. Had he meant �to expect� in the cognitive sens...

I had totally forgotten about my post two years ago featuring Chief Executive magazine's then editor Bill Holstein's rant against PR people. It wasn't until PR Newser's Jason Chupick linked back to the "Jennifer and Jasons All" item in his post today based on Mr. Holstein's latest (yet not-unfounded...

Do citizens have a right to attend, observe, and write about political events and appearances?  Of course they do.  Does that change when a citizen is contributing to a “pro-am” political website like OffTheBus and an open supporter of a candidate?  Pundits, journalists, bloggers, and...

The Public Journalism or Civic Journalism movement started 20 years ago and grew out of repulsion to the sleaze and trivia of that 1988 Presidential election. Back then it was a few lone voices like Jay Rosen, Buzz Merritt and Cole Campbell who tried to wake up the news media folks about their erran...

If you missed Kit Seelye's take today on how one off-the-bus Obama citizen supporter/reporter could very well derail her candidate's political prospects, it's a most worthwhile read. For some command-and-control PR types, it should also strike a nerve. In a nutshell, the Obama campaign invited one M...

A couple days ago, Huffington Post's "OffTheBus," a political blog inside the political blog that is the rest of HuffPo, broke a story: Barack Obama thinks Americans are bitter! You have hopefully heard about this by now, as it was all over the TV all weekend, this whole "Barack Obama thinks economi...