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<title><![CDATA[PRWatch: Lessons From A VC On Writing A (Linkless) News Release...]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Ben Horowitz, the slightly hairier one in the powerhouse VC duo of Andreessen Horowitz, wrote an interesting post about the future of networking that also serves as a very good example of what a news release could look like.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:17:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One Name Missing From Atlantic's "End Times" Piece]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[One Name Missing From Atlantic's "End Times" Piece

As The Atlantic speculated about the fate of The New York Times, it occurred to me that one name was conspicuously absent from the writer's list of possible acquirers:
Its possible that a David Geffen, Michael Bloomberg, or Carlos Slim would purchase The Times as a trophy property and spare the company some of this pain. Even Rupert Murdoch, after overpaying wildly for The Wall Street Journal, seems to be tempted by the prospect of adding The Times to his portfolio. 
Why not George Soros? His net worth is not quite Michael Bloomberg's, but more than David Geffen's. Moreover, his politics...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:11:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Important Updates]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[If you're wondering why there haven't been a lot of updates here lately, it's because of this:



But, more importantly, this:



More news as it develops... *8-)

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<pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:11:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Big Dow Drop Meets The Nanny Index]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[The Big Dow Drop Meets The Nanny Index

I recently read David Harsanyi's excellent book Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. It was a thoughtful birthday gift from my folks, who thoughtfully indulge my libertarian bent with such works.

In this book, Harsanyi says that the five most frightening words than can be uttered by the typical U.S. government official are "Something needs to be done."

Starting last Friday and cresting today thanks to the stalled mega-bailout, that devilish phrase is at a six-month all-time...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Serve.Gov Needs Volunteers...]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[...to watch the serve.gov site, presumably.



Found this evening, though I don't expect it to be up for long. 

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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[VCs, Wake Up]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[From peHUB about video processor startup Novafora folding yesterday: 
"'VC appetite has really dried up for later-stage semiconductor companies,' says a former Novafora executive, reached at his home this morning. 'They all want to do social networking and things like that.'"
Sure, you want to go where the money is and where a quick exit can be had, but isn't that how you got into that whole mess in 2001?

NB: If we don't invest in keeping pace with Moore's Treadmill, the next-generation social network, entertainment device, toaster, or garage door opener simply won't happen. 

As I told a colleague some years ago: "Dot-coms make headlines. Well and good. But science makes history."

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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Lose Sight, Lose the Fight"]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[We're at about six months since the United States Air Force's blog-response chart made its rounds online. Since then, it has crossed my desk often.

I've always found it well-designed and comprehensive, though something has always bugged me about it. The other day, I figured out what it was.

Somewhat incredibly, it ignores the number-one rule that all combat pilots must follow: "Lose Sight, Lose the Fight."

The flaw is in the little box at the lower right-hand corner. 

INFLUENCE: Focus on the most used sites related to the Air Force.

Seems narrow to me. For example, let's imagine that, say, and influencer like Robert Scoble is talking with a buddy in the Air Force. One day over coffee, the buddy says that the plane he flew in Iraq had an intermittent issue where the readouts would blink for no good reason...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Never Forget]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[For those of us who love freedom, this is a must-see.

More at Reason.Tv.

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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Art Of 'Goldilocks' SEO]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[I always pay attention to Aaron Wall, who runs SEOBook, because he is always on the money. He is one of the very few Google Watchers that is consistently insightful and isn't afraid of writing hard hitting articles critical of Google -- if it's called for. Here is one of his latest infographics, and again, he is spot on about the changing trends in how Google views the web. It's shocking how much valuable advice he gives away:]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 03:52:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:54:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Hidden Gold Mine - What The Others Have Missed]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Several reporters have pointed to a big risk that they discovered in Facebook's SEC filing: mobile.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:07:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Tale Of Two Letters: Facebook's Vague Social Mission]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Facebook's IPO documents reveals a far different culture to that of neighboring rival Google...Mark Zuckerberg's letter to prospective shareholders was incredibly vague about his company's "social mission" and there was no announcement of a charitable foundation -- as Google had done when it filed its IPO papers eight years ago.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:42:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What To Watch: Will Zuckerberg's IPO Letter Be As Awesome As Larry Page's?]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[The same media frenzy of interest that we see today in the Facebook IPO we saw with Google in 2004...I remember vividly the day Google filed its "red herring" with the SEC in preparation for its IPO. I was out at lunch when our bureau chief Richard Waters, called me, "They've filed."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:26:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Facebook IPO Halved -- Its Valuation Could Skyrocket Above $100bn]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[International Financing Review, a Thomson Reuters publication, reports that its Wall Street sources point to a far smaller Facebook IPO, raising about $5 billion instead of the expected $10 billion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:40:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Massive $1.5 Billion Andreessen Fund Inflate The Bubble In Private Secondary Markets?]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[(Photo:By Joi Ito.)Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz made their reputation as savvy investors by making lots of small seed investments of up to $100,000. This then helped them raise billions of dollars, $2.7 billion so far, with the latest $1.5 billion fund announced today.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:08:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bay Meadows Urban Office Campus Opens Up Massive Space]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[San Francisco is straining to accomodate demand from large and small tech companies but not far down the road a massive new office space has just opened up.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:36:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MediaWatch Analysis: Should The Tech Industry Buy The Content Industry?]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Should Apple buy Hollywood? Should Google buy the New York Times? Foremski's Take: People in the tech communities have long discussed the need for tech companies to buy media companies. More recently, there has been discussion about Apple using its $100 billion cash hoard to buy music and movie studios.This won't happen, for many reasons. I discuss some of those reasons here:]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:38:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Defense Of The "Purist"]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[In Defense Of The "Purist"

I while ago, I was having lunch with my friend "Bart" whose supervisor "James" had left the firm he worked for at the time. Naturally, this meant that Bart had to take on some of his former boss's responsibilities &mdash; some considerable shoes to fill.

James was a leader in this company's online communications strategy, not just because of his considerable technical knowledge but, rather, the instincts he developed over a period of time.

During one of the necessary transition meetings, Bart had a meeting with James' former boss. 

"The thing is about James was," the boss said. "He was just too much of a purist."

Considering Bart and James were pretty much parallel philosophically, this wasn't such good news for my friend. Bart would leave the firm soon afterward.

Since Bart told me this story, I've been asking myself, "What did James' former boss mean?"

It occurs to me that there are some...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Having A "Message" Is Fine, It's "Messaging" That Sucks]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[Having A "Message" Is Fine, It's "Messaging" That Sucks

In PR 2.0 circles, it has long been hip to say that there is no place in modern communications for a company with "messages" and that any company with "messages" is somehow lost in the digital weeds. A PR person who says otherwise is derided as a knuckle-dragging troglodyte while the supremely useless you-don't-get-it crowd gleefully jumps in and piles on. 

I disagree with the premise that messages are necessarily dead. This was a fallacy that was allowed to progress because the some PR folks were too busy ingratiating themselves with a small set of influencers to think the issues and distinctions through. 

If your company doesn't have a "message" &mdash; a set of clear ideas that codify how it sees itself, its industry, and the world at large &mdash; then why the hell does it even exist, let alone communicate?

Frankly, a distinction needs to be made....]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Coming Merger Of Power + Data - Apple Patent]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[I've long thought that electric and computer power will eventually be mixed. There used to be various ways of using a home's electric power lines to guide data connections to every room but wireless technologies became simpler and cheaper.Now Apple has received a patent on a power connector that also carries a data connector. It's a step towards a merging two powers that will fuel this century and beyond.AppleInsider has the details:]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:06:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Use Is Linked To Depression... And More Sex]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[This study of time spent on Facebook by 425 College students is depressing:]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:51:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moving On]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[I've blogged my last here and have moved on to a new site, Where the Fishermen Ain't. Of course, I can also be found in all of the usual places.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:11:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Behave In An Internet Forum]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[How To Behave In An Internet Forum


    How To Behave On A Forum - video powered by Metacafe

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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:11:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2009: Hoping For Audacity, Believing We Can Change]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[2009: Hoping For Audacity, Believing We Can Change



From the Edelman Digital blog:

The first few years of my PR career in Silicon Valley were marked by a singular frustration  most PR professionals did not aspire to be, nor were they particularly expected to be, as driven to innovate in their own field as their clients were in theirs. 


"Just get into the Journal," seemed the dictum. "Everything else is secondary." 


For a number of reasons so tangential to this story as to be distracting, the advent of social media is what kept me in public relations at a point in 2001 when I asked myself "Is this all that there is?" Years later, I'm glad to see there's a lot more. A hell of a lot more. 


For what it's worth, 2009 will be the year when real innovation starts to come back into PR  not in the relatively...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:11:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Ousted Company Leaders Continue To "Manage From The Grave"]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Lucy Marcus makes some excellent points in this article from Reuters' Blogs: Lead from the front, or manage from the grave? | Lucy P. MarcusShe shows how boards of directors at RIM, and Yahoo, are making serious mistakes in their efforts to revitalize their businesses with new leaders. They don't take the necessary steps to cut off the influence of the former, discredited management teams, on the organization. Appointing a new CEO will change little.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:09:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Could Buildings Be Improved If They Were Designed Like A Web App?]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[David Galbraith has embarked on a fascinating journey, exploring the notion that the flow of people and their interactions inside buildings, is similar in design to the flow of data and user interaction of Web apps.Could best practices in Web app design be applied to architectural design?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:26:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is a fundamental human expression whose absence is always a sign of oppression]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[A group of Indian students at Velammal Engineering College are putting together a book: "500 Definitions Of Entrepreneurship" and they asked me for my definition. Here's what I sent:]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Searching For Race In Social Media - US Government Program Targets Hispanics]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Dana Oshiro, publishing analyst at ad network NetShelter, poses an interesting question: "how do you determine race and ethnicity online? "This question arose from her recent attendance at the White House Hispanic Community Action Summit in San Jose, CA where plans were discussed on how to use social media and online marketing to target the Hispanic population. The goal is to offer programs that will raise the number of Hispanic students in colleges by 4.5 million over the next ten years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:32:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Here's Why Apple Won't Reign-in Its Lawyers Anytime Soon...]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Apple has been waging legal battles against rivals such as Samsung. It may have spent more than $100 million on legal bills in 2011.Tim O'Reilly, the influential CEO of book and conference company of the same name, tweeted:]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:22:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hacks And Ca$h: Silicon Valley Outspent Hollywood in Washington]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[There is a widespread perception that Hollywood's media industries have friends in high places because they have spent money buying influence compared with the poor tech industry. But Reuters reports that the tech industry has outspent the entertainment industries.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:17:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Insurance And Finance Top Google Customers In 2011 - Revenue Breakdown]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Which industries and companies were Google's top spenders in 2011? Did you know that "Self Employed Health Insurance" cost $43 per click? Here's a fascinating infographic that breaks down the $38 billion that Google made in 2011:]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:40:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2012 StartupWatch: Echo Expanding With Key Hires]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:01:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Capiche? Y Combinator Finds A Key Metric For Success]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Paul Graham, a partner at Y Combinator a successful Silicon Valley incubator, writes that he has found a key sign of future success among the startups that are recruited into YC's twice-yearly mentoring programs.What is this indicator?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:29:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lessons In Online Culture From Plancast - When Sharing Doesn't Work]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Mark Henderson, founder and CEO of Plancast, has written an excellent article about lessons learned from operating his event planning service -- mostly popular in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco area. It contains a good analysis of the different types of users and what people are willing to share online.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:05:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NYT Profile On Jolie's Media Management Shows Profession Has A Long Way To Go]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[NYT Profile On Jolie's Media Management Shows PR Profession Has A Long Way To Go

I'm still not sure whether The New York Times was  repulsed or intrigued by the fact that that Angelina Jolie exhibits greater media savvy than the average Hollywood type, taking more than 1,500 words to tell its very literate readership what it already intuitively (or explicitly) knows about celebrity PR.

Where The Old Gray Lady sees a "carefully orchestrated image", I see a very smart woman who has a greater level of media savvy than the average actor or actress. Like Princess Di, Jolie also knows that she can channel interest in her celebrity life to bring attention to the topics and world issues she cares about.

Putting aside for the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:11:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Blaming The Victim]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[An exchange today, reacting to a press release about a topic that I have never been even remotely interested in:

Sammy Spamalot: [Insert spray-and-pray release here.]

Phil: Please take me off of your list

Sammy: Use the unsubscribe link in the email please

Phil: Way to blame the victim, dude. 

Sammy: Thanks Phil, it would just take me ages to find your addres in our database.

Phil: Probably no more time than it took for me to fish your note out of the trash and find the link, I'd imagine.
Almost as good as the time the PR person told me that she was blameless and advised that I call the company that sold them their media list.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:11:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quick Update]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[Quick Update

So, I spent some time here:

  

Met this way-cool guy:]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:11:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vice Media: The Best Network Effect Is The Old Boy Network]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Vice Media is a great success story: three friends in Montreal start publishing a magazine about tattoos and drinking and now run a media empire across 34 countries.Vice could be worth $1 billion by the end of this year and become "the next MTV," writes Jeff Bercovici at Forbes:]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:15:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google+ Numbers Could Be Higher Than Larry Page Says]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Larry Page, CEO of Google, said at the analyst call on Thursday that G+ has 90 million users and that 60% are active daily.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:40:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are VCs Abandonding Seed Funding? Report Shows Massive 48% Dive In One Year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:31:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Interesting That Google Hosted Unblocked Wikipedia Pages During SOPA Protest]]></title>
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<description>Silicon Valley Watcher -  at the intersection of technology and media:- <![CDATA[Wikipedia, which features at the top of many searches, blacked out its English-language site to protest the proposed SOPA legislation but the entire site was readily available on Google.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:49:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Strategy To Boost Its G+ Social Network Risks Harming Quality Of Search Warns SEO Expert]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:17:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud Computing Is Driving A Digital Arts Renaissance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:38:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Think Fair" - Apple Moves To Become The World's First Fair Trade Electronics Tech Company]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:10:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Instructor's Notebook: PROpenMic At Six Months]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[Instructor's Notebook: PROpenMic At Six Months

Cross-posted from Authenticities:
Auburn University's Robert French is to be congratulated for what he's accomplished with PROpenMic. In just six months, the site stacks up quite favorably in every measure to the likes of myragan.com (the closest thing I can compare it to) and even some other well-known PR-focused sites. 

I'll let Robert's analysis speak for itself. For my part, there are a number of lessons for all PR...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media Postions GM PR Adviser As 'Auto Analyst', While Arrington Derails PR's Focus]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[Media Postions GM PR Adviser As 'Auto Analyst', While Arrington Derails PR's Focus

Yuck: 

CBSs 'The Early Show' included a statement in its Dec. 18 report on the Big 3 bailout from 'auto industry analyst,' Dan McGinn. Letting the massive car companies fail 'would be like 10 Katrinas hitting America at the same time,' McGinn asserted. 'The American public understands that.'

What the report didnt say is that McGinn is also an adviser to General Motors. Furthermore, TMG Strategies the public relations firm McGinn heads, lists GM as a client. McGinn has been making the case for an auto bailout in many news stories and issuing some compelling statements on behalf of his client.

You'd think media organizations would know the difference before booking such a guest.

And, yet,]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fairness Doctrine Is Not A PR Tactic]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[The Fairness Doctrine Is Not A PR Tactic

PR Week discusses the quite inappropriately dubbed "Fairness Doctrine" and basically ends with the the following message in the form of a quote by Chris Battle of the Adfero Group: PR people can use this crusty old regulatory idea to browbeat broadcasters into covering their clients.

From the article:
However unlikely its reimplementation, Battle adds that the Fairness Doctrine  even if applied only to now-conservative-dominated talk radio  could benefit the PR sector. 

If the measure were to gain passage, PR firms could, in theory, demand airtime for their clients, he says.

In a sense, it could be a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fishin']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sad]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[Sad



At a volunteers' meeting at UIC tonight, I noticed that this Silicon Graphics O2 workstation was serving as a doorstop in one of the Science &amp; Engineering Lab's rooms.

Funny thing was, I hadn't yet heard the news that SGI was sold to Rackable Systems for $25 million. 

Remember when SGI was synonymous with "Hollywood blockbuster?"

What a long, strange trip it's been.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Semper (Wi)Fi? Not so much...]]></title>
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<description>Phil's Blogservations:- <![CDATA[I don't mean to spend my two most recent posts picking on our armed forces (which I do have a very deep respect for), but this strikes me as a little crazy:
The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.

These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries, reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel at an elevated risk of compromise."
In any event,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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