Archive for October, 2007

PR and paranoia

Most good PR people are paranoid. Admit it. You are. This is because it pays to think through what might go wrong. For instance, how might this story be interpreted? What potential crises are looming? What happens if the laptop fails in the presentation? What if there’s traffic on the press tour? The mantra is [...]

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from the LEWIS team. Technorati Tags: Halloween

I see dead people

Lots of them. In this new mag I just learned about – Obit. A magazine choc full of well, obits. It’s actually very good. For instance, I just learned this about Colma, south of San Francisco. People come to Colma mainly to be buried. On San Francisco’s south flank, sharing a fog bank, Colma has [...]

Wired editor blocks PR people, outs them

Chris Anderson, editor of Wired vents about ‘PR spam’ in a recent post. It’s a common theme and I guess we all reach a point where enough is enough. In fact, who can’t sympathize with this sentiment, regardless of your profession? So fair warning: I only want two kinds of email: those from people I [...]

That whole podcasting thing

I’m trying it. Kinda. Here’s the pilot. (Thanks Ian for doing this on the spur of the moment). Am sure it can be made better. I joked on 360 that it was sponsored by the word ‘perfect’ which i seemed to use six times in three minutes. Learning by doing and hopefully I’ll get a [...]

Leopard launches

Technorati Tags: Apple, Mozy

Morganutiae

You can now find all my updates to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Del.icio.us and PodBean on my Tumblelog – Morganutiae. If you’re unfamiliar with Tumblr it takes feeds from a number of social media sites and general RSS feeds and aggregates them in a lightweight, sparsely formatted blog. I’ve called mine Morganutiae because there’s probably [...]

Blackberry’s Facebook app

As if Crackberry isn’t addictive enough… Technorati Tags: Blackberry, Facebook

If you can’t beat ‘em

If you can’t beat ‘em

Technorati Tags: MSM, NYT, TechCrunch

San Francisco Chronicle on the move?

I heard on the radio this morning that Hearst is thinking of selling The Chron’s offices on Mission and Fifth. The area has seen a lot of development recently (mainly with the Bloomingdale’s opening) so real estate prices are rising, despite the crunch. Must be tempting to move to a cheaper location but it’s a [...]