I am addicted to RSS as a method for getting news, but I have a confession to make: I think it has drawbacks. Sacrilegious though it may sound, one of RSS’ greatest strengths – its…

Here’s further proof of the impact that bloggers can have on companies and that corporate blogs/podcasts can have on audience interaction. The first is the lead article in PR NEWS in which Matthew Schwartz covers…

Susan Mernit highlights that the AP has launched its own RSS feeds. Must haves for me are the obvious ‘Business’ and ‘Technology’ feeds, as well as the enigmatic ‘Strange’. Bit like ‘Oddly Enough’ from Reuters….

This time on Fox News. Quite a well-balanced piece I think, here are some edits: "The "blogosphere" isn’t so much an alternative to the conventional newsstand as it is a massive extension of it. There…

A must read from Forbes about the current threats facing the newspaper industry. Key extract: "People may decreasingly read news from branded and trusted newspapers, but, surveys show, they do want to read it from…

Catherine Helzerman, part of IBM’s analyst relations team, is just today kicking off a public relations online forum to discuss aspects of media relations, analyst relations, corporate comms and agency life among others. Log in…

Wired has an interesting article indicating that the Web is not the death of language. This struck me as odd. It seems there is an assumption that technologies such as IM, or its wireless sibling,…

The BBC has the story – just breaking. Big loss of the pioneer of ‘gonzo journalism’.

Chris Lewis, founder and CEO of my agency, LEWIS, has kicked-off a blog called Lewis On Global Spin (LOGS). There are few people in the industry with his global perspective and commercial track record, so…