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PR software for the people, by the people

August 6th, 2010 at 15:38 » Comments Off

OpenTable ended the unpleasant ritual of waiting on hold for a snooty hostess to  book your dinner reservation for a popular restaurant. GPS devices from Garmin, TomTom and Magellin have made ...more »

When fake news isn’t funny

July 29th, 2009 at 11:09 » Comments Off

The shooting death of a Kuwaiti businessman this past weekend is a sobering reminder of how wrong things can go when misinformation is used to pump up stock prices. Whether Hazem ...more »

Smart consumers, PR pros benefit from media fragmentation

April 30th, 2009 at 09:42 » Comments (2)

Sometimes fast isn't fast enough. As the Rochester, N.Y., reporter for UPI in the '80s, it used to embarrass me to get a message from BROOKS-NXF (Dorthea Brooks on the New ...more »

April Fool’s Day means red alert in newsrooms

March 31st, 2009 at 09:01 » Comments (2)

While Batboy still lives in the form of an off-Broadway musical, I miss seeing his face on the cover of the tabloid Weekly World News, alongside the supermarket checkout counter. Now ...more »