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New Rules of Breaking News, Beware of Embargoes
Part Four of a series discussing blogger relations, "Building a Bridge Between Your Story, Bloggers, and People."
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Fastest Growing Social Network
Quick, what’s the fastest-growing social network over the last year? MySpace? Nope. Facebook? Nope. Bebo? Now, let’s be serious. According to Nielsen Online (and Fortune), it’s . . . LinkedIn.
Bloggers Win International Journalism Award
If there was any doubt remaining that bloggers can be considered journalists, consider that lack of faith obliterated. An Egyptian and a Burmese blogger are the first of the blogger-kind to receive the Knight International Journalism Award.
Businesses Should Email Interested Consumers
More than half of U.S. consumers who say they are interested in a company are open to receiving a personalized or generic email or text message from the business they are interested in, according to Vertis "2007 Customer Focus Tech Savvy' study.
U2 Puts New Song On Facebook
U2 may or may not support Facebook more than MySpace, Bebo, and all the other social networks out there. But it apparently has ties to the creators of a Facebook app called iLike, and the famous band has, in any event, made a previously unreleased song available on Mark Zuckerberg’s site.
Congress Leaves Out Telco Immunity (For Now)
There may be hope yet for the idea that our government actually works for us. Two bills, one in the House, and one in the Senate Judiciary Committee, passed without giving blanket retroactive immunity to telephone companies that willingly aided the Bush Administration in illegally spying on the American people.
