Blogger Noel Guinane, while doing a little PR for his blog, invited me by e-mail to comment on his new post, Dishonestly honest or honestly dishonest?

I think I’ll blog about it instead.

He uses the recent Edelman blogger initiative and the read more...

I’ve been selected at Business Planet, thanks Alex, whoever you are.

Business Planet is a lot like Digg, but is aimed at the business community and doesn’t have near the number of users as Digg.

Right now my post on Corporate Social Responsibility is still in the front page, so go vote for it, then check out some of the other stuff there.

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Were you feeling a little itchy this morning?

It seems that bedbugs, those bugs of nursery rhyme lore, have made a comeback in the United States, and hotels have a growing problem as they struggle to fight off these critters.

One hotel already faces a big problem.

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Richard Edelman tells us that he “learned his lesson,” when he was called to carpet about these now-famous comments at a PRWeek awards dinner:

“It used to be I would schmooze you and I was your flack,” said Mr. Edelman…“Today, if we want to get a message into the public’s conversation, we just make a post on a blog. If The Wall Street Journal goes after a client, we don’t have to accept that anymore. Let’s post the documents we gave The Journal; let’s show the interviews the newspaper decided not to show. read more...

This morning in the Daily Dog, Jeremy Pepper points us Forward.

Started by Auburn student Erin Caldwell, the Web site is part blog, part webzine, and is aimed at young PR pros.

Erin is also looking for contributors for the site, including read more...