Stupid Is As Stupid Does…
CMO mag has a list of some of the dumbest PR quotes of the year. Little gems like this:
- "More Than 19 Percent of Men and 36 Percent of Women Worldwide Would Rather Give Birth than Experience Poor Customer Service, a Recent Survey Reports’
- "We are advised by a representative of the company that the seventh paragraph, first sentence, should read ‘Created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky of Miami, the new Coca-Cola Zero campaign is the first creative work the agency has developed for Coca-Cola North America’ rather than, ‘Crisping Porter + Bogusly’ as originally issued inadvertently.’
- "Putting your enterprise on Viagra: Network Automation’s AutoMate 6.0 automates and jump starts the basic routines that saves an IT Admistrator’s time – saving hundreds of mouse clicks and keystrokes daily.’
For goodness sake people…
Dan’s Center for Citizen Media
Dan is staring a “non profit Center For Citizen Journalism“:
Why do this? We need a thriving media and journalism ecosystem. We need what big institutions do so well, but we also need the bottom-up — or, more accurately, edge-in — knowledge and ideas of what I’ve called the “former audience” that has become a vital part of the system. I’m also anxious to see that it’s done honorably and in a way that helps foster a truly informed citizenry. I think I can help.
This is a nonpartisan initative. I aim to help anyone, regardless of political views, who has a constructive project and who is interested in expanding the reach of citizen media in an principled way.
Blogger Destroys Business
A tale of pain for one business – PriceRitePhoto – that incurred the wrathof a blogger after skewering him on a sales call. Having just been through a tragic experience ordering Christmas cards (the expensive kind) I don’t feel an ounce of pitty for the business. But more on that later. The blogosphere will favor the honest businesses that meet and deliver on their promises. Those that don’t, perish.
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
Richard has a good wrap-up of the Top Ten Web 2.0 moments of 2005. He has started adding a few of the others like ‘Google Maps mashup’. One of the big ones for me is the emergence of the Web 2.0 ‘framing’ – it defines a whole new generation of ‘software as a service’ and ushers in a new level of utility in terms of how we use software.
Another Top Ten Web 2.0 moment – and it was more of a steady drum-beat than a moment – was the emergence of the Wiki as a participatory platform. And the emergence of new challenges to public Wiki platforms – like inaccuracy in entries.
I’ll also look back on this year as the year that the Participatory Era took hold. Suddenly millions of users really started participating in the conversation, establishing new dialogues and framing new debates. Recommenders started taking hold of products’ destinies. And new participatory engines – from Blogs to Wikis and Ajax-based applications like Meebo – emerged.
Cool Skype Phones…
One of these for Christmas please… Have been hunting for a Skype phone that supports Mac and these look great.
