Recently, NPR’s Story of the Day podcast (Empowered by Technology, Indians Fight Government Corruption) featured how SMS technology effectively gave middle class Indians the ability to launch large scale protests against a legal system that is notorious for protecting the interests of the elite class. Fashion model Jessica Lal was shot and killed at an exclusive nightclub/bar in Dehli nearly 7 years ago,...
Continue ReadingWe took a quick look at corporate, trade association, and non-profit websites. Seems like less than 10% have set up an RSS feed for their news releases. Here’s an example. Here’s another. Notice the and icons.
RSS is the increasingly standard way content get passed around the web —...
Continue ReadingLike a lot of people, I work from multiple computers. I have a personal laptop, a work laptop, and randomly find myself using different machines when going to meetings, traveling or visiting friends and family. So I have a problem getting files from one machine to another. I have a flash drive I use on occasion,...
Continue ReadingWe recently completed the launch of a new Website for the International Journalists’ Network (IJNET). IJNet.org, which is provided in its entirety in four languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic), is a global online service for journalists, media managers, media assistance professionals, journalism trainers and educators, or anyone else with an interest in news media....
Continue ReadingFound the “Results of the first European Survey on Weblogs in Public Relations and Communication Management” by Philip Young, Ansgar Zerfass and Swaran Sandhu (Jan 2006). You can dowload it here. (It’s the link under “Results.”) Not sure whether the 500 or so respondents being self-selected makes the survey scientifically representative,...
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