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A “Virtual Coup” :: Cory Treffiletti, MediaPost

Interesting story and ideas from MediaPost and …

Douglas MacKinnon’s Chicago Tribune Op-Ed | Missing white female alert

Chicago Tribune | Missing white female alert
Why won’t the media cover missing minority women?
An op-ed by Douglas MacKinnon, press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole from 1998 to 2003, was published at chicagotribune.com on May 8, 2005.
This is a great editorial and everyone should read it. Then, write to every major news [...]

Billboard Is Blogging :: Billboard PostPlay

Music fans rejoice. Billboard is blogging. Billboard PostPlay.
Rafat Ali, the publisher of PaidContent.org, is doing the blog for them.

paidContent.org’s Joint Venture With Billboard Launches
We’re launching our first joint project, Billboard PostPlay in association with Billboard. The joint blog will cover all aspects of digital music: online, mobile music, P2P, devices, legal issues and [...]

Jeremy Pepper :: Great article :: A must read

Blogs and Libel
Jeremy interviews David E. McCraw, Counsel for The New York Times Co., and Bartlet Brebner, of The Brebner Law Firm. The premise - libel.

Can blogs be sued for libel?
It is inevitable, and has already happened. Blogs have received notices from attorneys that they are being sued for libel, but [...]

adrants in a bit of hot water?

Update:
 From Adrants: As many have noted, Adrants has been sick. Ill from popularity. Strangled by those maddeningly eager to see what will be the next greatest advertising move. As a result, we are causing a server to stress out and exploded under the load. Hosts don’t like when that happens and they turn you [...]

A Man, Claiming to be the Devil, Hijacked the NYTimes Email Server Last Night

Or, maybe it was Google Mail’s server. I don’t know.
I don’t sleep very well, often. I’m one of those “sleep two hours, get up, go back to sleep” kind of people. You know the kind. Weird.
Well, I got up at 3:00 AM and did my usual routine. [...]

Cox, Ingman, Cutler, Israel and Scoble: Blogging Books

As Shel Israel and Robert Scoble continue to develop their book (The Red Couch), let’s look at other authors having success in publishing blog books. The stories are quite varied.

Rex Hammock does it again

Everytime I read Rex’s blog I find something new and valuable.
Today is no different.
Check out Rex Hammock’s “rexblog library of accidental blog books“. What a terrific idea. Books that make you a better writer (and more), thus - a better blogger.
And, not satisfied with stopping there, Rex also points us to Neville Hobson’s [...]

Book trends are set in San Francisco.

We’re No. 1 when it comes to book trends

It’s not nice to brag.
However, what San Franciscan would not rejoice — clutching a glass of Pinot Noir in one hand and a volume of poetry in the other (as indicated by the 2003 federal study showing we spend more on books and booze than any other [...]

NPR: Bloggers’ Influence on the Book Publishing Industry

Bloggers’ Influence on the Book Publishing Industry
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Day to Day, November 10, 2004 · NPR’s Karen Grigsby Bates reports on the increased influence of Internet Web loggers — known as “bloggers” — in the book publishing world.

Cultures … ours isn’t the only one …

Well, I had a ‘moment’ recently. Jeremy Pepper responded to my post about Lee Gaither’s visit.
The comment led me to an interview/article with Jeremy, PR Fuel: Don’t Ignore The Melting Pot - By Ben Silverman .
This observation by Silverman struck a nerve:
Thinking about this topic has caused me to take a look at my [...]