Schwag!
Originally uploaded by Nicole Lee. For those that haven’t been following the situation, Robert Scoble (Microsoft Evangelist and co-author of Naked Conversations along with Shel Israel) has been attending to his mother in Livingston, Montana, who had a massive stroke last week and isn’t expected to live.

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The number of PR feeds during April 2006 stands at 464, for a total increase of 4 percent or 18 feeds over March 2006. Constantin has added several blogs of academics to the list. Of course, these are feeds found by Constantin and/or sent to him by others, so if you aren't included, just let Constantin know and he will add you next month.

Overall, the PR and MARCOM corner of the blogosphere read more...

It’s the worst dancing I have ever seen, really.

But it is hilarious.

He posts a new dance a few times a week.

And he takes requests.

He is an anonymous American software developer.

And he is very popular (Technorati Rank: 4,439), so popular that last week, when I intended to make him the Fun Friday feature, his server crashed. But the read more...

Chain link detail.
Originally uploaded by photoplasia. How do we measure the influence of a blog?

It seems that links and traffic aren’t enough, but what is? Recently, I discovered PubSub weights its links, which may be part of the solution.

But even so, as Shel Israel mentions in his read more...

What if you were a health official, in charge of response in your state for any outbreaks of disease?

What if a large television network made a movie about the “worst case scenario” that you were concerned would unnecessarily worry people.

That is just what happened last night when ABC aired Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America,
a movie about what could happen if the Avian Flu ever mutates in a form read more...