Taking tax payers' money, just because you can

Spine. Spine. No spine.

Tags: taxes, Linda Skugge. Ping.

Monday, November 13, 2006 | Permanent link | | |

The SEC opens up for corporate blogs in investor relations

Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, suggested to the SEC that his corporate blog could be used as an approved channel to disclose corporate information. Although the response is not entirely positive, the Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox leaves the door open for further discussion, according to CFO.com.

"The Commission encourages the use of websites as a source of information to the market and investors, and we welcome your offer to further discuss with us your views in this area," Cox wrote.

Tags: corporate blog, Sun, bloggar. Ping.

Friday, November 10, 2006 | Permanent link | | |

Crop circles, fake blogs and other fairy tales

Hkan Nordkvist either,
1. travelled through time;
2. is completely wacko; or
3. is blogging to create a buzz about a tv ad for AMF Pension.

I'd go for #3.

I'm not a big fan of marketing stunts that pose as real stories but hey, it's Friday and I'll be nice. This is so far out that hopefully most people will see through it. Even a flog can have some charm to it.

Via Reklamfeber.

Tags: flogs, fake blogs, amf, reklam. Ping.

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The press release 100 years old

Via the India PR Blog I notice that the press release supposedly turned 100-years-old on October 28.
"On October 28, 1906, at least 50 people lost their lives when a three-car train of the Pennsylvania Railroad's newly equipped electric service jumped a trestle at Atlantic City, NJ, and plunged into the Thoroughfare creek.

That afternoon, Ivy Lee, who some consider to be the father of modern PR, created the first press release. The Pennsylvania Railroad was one of his clients. Following the accident, Lee not only convinced the railroad to distribute a public statement, he also convinced them to provide a special train to get reporters to the scene of the accident."
About time then that this communications channel evolved a bit. The PR agency SHIFT Communications initiated a discussion around the development of a "social media press release" this summer. The thought was that the press release should be re-designed to fit the new social media/web 2.0 environment. I am sure we will continue to see interesting developments regarding press releases and other PR tactics. For PR practitioners, these are exiting times.

Tags: web 2.0, social media, public relations, PR, web2.0. Ping.

Thursday, November 09, 2006 | Permanent link | | |

Birro blogs

Writer, poet etcetera Marcus Birro has just launched his own blog. His comment describes very well how many feel when they get access to their own instant publishing platform.
"Det hr r en jvligt rolig grej. Nu nr jag lser ngot som jag reagerar p, s tnker jag p en gng att jag ska blogga om det."

"This is damn fun. Now when I read something that I react to, I immediately think that I will blog about it."
But it's a bit odd that Norrkping's Folkbladet can write an article about his blog and not give out the web address to it. The blog can be found here.

Tags: poetry, literature, Marcus Birro, posei, litteratur, bloggar. Ping.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 | Permanent link | | |

DG starts blogging about public health

Gunnar gren, Director General of Folkhlsoinstitutet (the Swedish National Institute of Public Health), today started a blog, found here. To my knowledge he is the first blogging DG in Sweden.

Tags: health, blog, bloggar, hlsa. Ping.

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Text 100 starts blogging

One more Swedish PR agency has started blogging. This time it is the Stockholm office of Text 100.

Tags: public relations, Text 100, corporate blog, bloggar, pr. Ping.

Thursday, November 02, 2006 | Permanent link | | |

You've come a long way, baby

Check this out. Media Culpa is pick of the day, by the Blogger team.

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Since there are a lot of new visitors to this blog today, I thought I should seize the opportunity to recommend a subscription to Media Culpa's RSS feed.

Tags: Blogger, blogs of note, bloggar, media culpa. Ping.

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Just drop it, Expressen

Bloglines is expected to have about a third of the RSS reader market and a guess is that the service is used by at least 2 million people. None (zero, zip, zilch) of them find it worthwhile to subscribe to Expressen's columnist Lars Lindstrm's blog. And he is not expected to get any more friends in the blogosphere after today's bizarre attack on blogger Magnus Ljungkvist regarding his scoop on Swedish Minister for Trade, Maria Borelius.

Update: For some strange reason Bloglines only found one of Lindstrm's feeds this morning. A new search revealed that his blog has three feeds with an impressive total of four subscribers. Sorry 'bout that.

Tags: Maria Borelius, blogs, medborgarjournalistik, Maria Borelius. Ping.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 | Permanent link | | |
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