Robert Ricci at Son-of-a-Pitch points us to the top ten news aggregators that public relations should consider.

They are mostly for tech pr, but there is plenty there for those that don't have tech clients. At any rate, it is good to be consumers of the information on these sites so our pitches are more on target.

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Robert Scoble tells us about a new service called coComment that allows you to track all of your comments in ONE place, without a lot of clicking. Is this the holy grail that Amy Garhan has been looking for? Well, the short answer is that it is still in beta, so we won't know for awhile. But Robert says its cool, so... Right now I have been using Amy's suggestion to tag every comment I make in del.icio.us. It read more...

Shel Isreal took McDonalds Senior Director, Bob Langert to the woodshed after his first post on his blog “Open For Discussion.” A few days later, after some pretty rough criticism about the tone of his first post, Shel gave Bobread more...

Yesterday, there was intense news coverage about the death of the telegram.

But Western Union didn’t send out a press release to announce the death of the telegram, it simply posted the news on its website.

Last year, 20,000 telegrams were sent at about $10 a message. The first telegram was sent on April 9, 1839 and the read more...

I was poking around in the Yahoo sandbox after Steve Ruble made this post about Yahoo accepting trackbacks in their Sandbox section. While there I saw something equally exciting, Yahoo news also includes blogs in their news searches. A Beta box pops up on the right with the latest blog news and it seems a few will also come up in the regular view as well (I saw a Gawker entry on one of my searches). Tags: Yahoo|Search|read more...