It seems that we PR bloggers spend a lot of time talking about the phenomenon of blogging and wondering if it will, or won't, supplant us in the future (I am guilty as the next person). Suffice it to say that I think PR will survive, but talk is cheap. Shel Holtz had a post yesterday about applications of SMS, a technology that lets you send an instant message over a cell phone. He came up with three ideas. His post, and several others, including these two from Amy Gahran about the limitations of blogs and another about using RSS to read more...

My feed has been seeing double for some time. The titles appear twice unless you use the default title (this took awhile to ficure out) and...

It's official, I HATE the default title, which means I am going to have to dig out all my prowess to mess with the template. Wish me luck.

Update: I think I fixed it. Wow, that was scary. I did some HTML typing (versus programming because it was very simple then) in 1994.

This leads me to my next point: If you want your blog to look good, you do have to have some technical skill, or at least a willingness to mess up.

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Think Outside the Blog Late this afternoon I got an e-mail from a secret contact telling me that PBS has a new blog. MediaShift is a blog venture pitched to PBS by freelance writer Mark Glaser. (See e-mail isn't dead). Of course I already knew this because, Media Orchard reported on it on Monday, but trust me, today I didn't remember it or anythign else (explainer is below). Mark made two posts today, one rather funny one by the “Preacherman” telling the story of read more...

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On Media Honesty: My Nomination Idea Grove is already working on its President’s Day post (kudos to Scott for planning ahead) to honor the top 10 Moments in Public Honesty for 2005-2006. They have asked for nominations of those in politicians and others who have exhibited refreshing candor in their interactions with the public. The cador had to occur between February 2005 and February 2006. My nomination is for Derek Rose, a reporter for the read more...

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MLK Day: The PR Contribution of Pioneer Moss Kindrix Today, public relations and advertising campaigns in the United States often take minority groups into account. Moss H. Kendrix (1917-1989), was the pioneer that made this all possible. He was one of the first to advocate and execute campaigns that positively portrayed African-Americans. His mantra and motto for his public relations company was, “What the public thinks counts!” You can learn more about Kendrix, and other early public relations pioneers, in the online exhibits of the Public Relations Museum. Update: read more...

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