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wikipedia

The dark underbelly of paid Wikipedia editing

Wikipedia's growing role as a verification source has made it more lucrative for paid editors.

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drones

Tech today in one sentence

Russell Davies: We’re in that phase with a bunch of technologies where corporations don’t know if things make them look cool or evil. Case in point.

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blogging

Blogger blackmail or blagger blunder?

Today in “things that depress me”: One of the biggest points being made on Twitter is that bloggers don’t get stuff for free, but are working for their reviews.

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journalism

The "placed" story and other failures of journalism

Sarah Lacy is outraged by PR behaviour: A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story, paid for and produced

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journalism

Traditional journalism will 'blow away on the winds of the internet'

Philip Trippenbach: Make no mistake: traditional, platform-based journalism is being crushed, and its dust will blow away on the winds of the internet. I know this is a melodramatic way to put it, but it’s an important point to make. Newspaper, television and

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events

Owning Social Meda, and APA Breakfasting

My diary is filling up alarmingly right now, and it has been a hectic couple of days, but I just wanted to pause a second and blog a little about a talk I gave to the [APA – the Association of Publishing Agencies](http://www.

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estates gazette

A Press Lunch With A Twist

How do you make your annual press lunch stand out from the pack? You make [the journalists cook it themselves](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/04/property-masterchef-aka-allsops-press-lunch.html).*Awesome*.

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bloggers

When is a Blogger not a Blogger?

Isn’t it interesting how the broadening of the communication channel causes gatekeepers of all stripes (in this case, the Tory press office) to tie themselves into knots trying to define who is “media” and who isn’t? Incidentally, I think they’ll live

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bradford

Micro-Celebrities: Selling Your City With Linda Barker

My friend and colleague Stacey has been at MIPIM, the big commercial property show held annually in the south of France. It’s a big money do, and some exhibitors there spend some serious money to bring along celebrities. And other PR people think

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apple

Valentine's Day is Coming…

Ah, you can tell that it’s less than a month until that consumerist festival of enforced affection they call Valentine’s Day: Apple have released a pink iPod Nano. The only thing I find remarkable about this is that they actually feel that

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blogging

Bloggers & PRs: Old Dance, New Partner

Over on Workbench, Rogers Caldenhead suggest that the most popular techbloggers are starting to tread a very well-trod path: that of the exclusive and the embargo, as the news sites cut deals with PRs. This is interesting, I think, because tech blogs tend to

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apple

Apple's Idiotic Decision of the Day

Via Mike Butcher‘s Twitter stream: no wifi at apple iphone uk launch. What idiots I really can’t believe that anybody seriously arranged a press event, particularly a tech press event, without giving free WiFi access for the hack. Liveblogging has become such

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biglorryblog

Blogging is a Cruel Mistress, says Mr BigLorryBlog

busybusybusybusybusy So I share a couple of links with you. One of our bloggers, the venerable Brian Weatherley of Big Lorry Blog has done a guest post for the Automotive PR blog giving some, hmm, vivid descriptions of what it’s like being a

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elections

The Wikipedia Hustings

The battle for the next general election is already being fought – on Wikipedia: Dawn Butler (Lab – Brent South) and Sarah Teather (LD – Brent East) will be fighting it out for the re-drawn seat of Brent Central at the next election, but online the battle

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journalism

How To Approach (Irish) Journalists

Damian Mulley has done some research on how Irish journalists would most like to be approached by PRs. It’s pretty much applicable to journalists anywhere in the world, although I’m quite surprised not to see “in humble supplication” on the list. Certainly