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 Wednesday, April 9, 2003
started 4/9/2003; 6:42:26 AM - last post 4/9/2003; 8:36:22 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, April 9, 2003 
4/9/2003; 10:42:26 AM (reads: 8124, responses: 4)
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Pax Americana 
| | The difference between Baghdad and San Francisco? |
| | Baghdad was liberated from 30 years of an oppressive regime, and now they hope and pray to live in blissful peace. |
| | The residents of San Francisco were liberated from their senses 30 years ago, and continue to reside in blissful ignorance. |
| | (Ah, but how many warbloggers would rather live in Bagdad?) |
| | The sounds I heard coming from Cheney this morning were very encouraging. If we do what he says we're doing, maybe we can restore some level of trust in an Arab world that's still very skeptical. |
| | Right now I'm just looking forward to the day when some Las Vegas theme hotel has a headless statue of Saddam outside one of its bars. |
Lucky
Amazing what you can do without a PR department
The clues keep on coming
| | So now I'm curious: Does Google's AdWords engine give me these ads because it thinks they're appropriate to John's blog, or because it knows I'm the one visiting? I suspect the former, but I don't know. And I think knowing would make a difference. |
| | On his 4/7 post (the permalink is broken for now), John says this: |
| | The Internet is allowing us to connect in a one-on-one way we've been missing since the days of the general store: I can talk to someone inside the company I'm buying from more easily than I can someone next door. Word of mouth (or word of "mouse") is fundamentally changing how we communicate, and what we communicate about. And without a strong connection to our customers, Microsoft will be joining the ranks of Borland, Ashton-Tate, Migent (where I began my high-tech career), and WordPerfect. |
| | Wow. I spent much of the day without phone, computer, network, etc. I was up at Inktomi (now "Yahoo! WebSearch" I think) headquarters learning about lots of cool stuff I cannot repeat with out being killed. |
| | However, I did learn that Inktomi's search system knows, uhm... "stuff" about blogs. And I got the chance to see what some of their tools told me about my blog. Neat stuff. |
| | Tonight we found a Monsanto Company press release. and one from Exxon-Mobil corporation entitled "Avial Selects Exxon Elite Engine Oil for Use in its Husky and Pitts Aircraft") - how is this news? It's even more boring than CNET, whose distinctive headline style it attempts to emulate. But wait - guess who scooped the top lead in the business section? Phillip Morris! |
| | Andrew will be taking his concerns to a meeting with Google, and invites reader input. My advice to Google: simply stop publishing press releases. Trust me (and every other professional journalist): They're junk mail. Alternatively, put up a separate section that's nothing but press releases. That way none of them would masquerade as The Real Deal. |
| | Well, there's a reason they call it "beta." |
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Fred Grott - PR Releases Google
4/9/2003; 11:53:03 AM (reads: 515, responses: 0)
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Gogle is actually opneing themselves up to be manipulated as long as they publish press releases as PR releases cannot be virfied effectively in a fast manner.
But then the question is where to draw the line in that blogs and weblogs are also pr ish in some cases..
Maybe google could solve this in adifferent way of making a news category for only pr releases..that way there still woudl be no censoring adn all audience groups would be satisfied by the guide lines..
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Michael Bernstein - Re: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
4/9/2003; 7:04:31 PM (reads: 517, responses: 0)
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"Alternatively, put up a separate section that's nothing but press releases. That way none of them would masquerade as The Real Deal."
Except that so called 'real journalists' will still use them to meet their deadlines.
However, interestingly enough, this would *also* put Google into competition with outfits like PRNewswire and BusinessWire.
Damn, pageranked press releases! Won't *that* put a bug up the butt of the PR business!
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Shelley - Re: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
4/9/2003; 11:55:25 PM (reads: 648, responses: 1)
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Let's see -- over 3000 Iraqi dead, several journalists dead or injured, battles raging all over the country, just starting to see the so-called terrorists activities start, Arab world furious, and the United States beat a tiny, ill-equipped people, and has forced them to scramble in the dirt for food and water.
Cheney basically saying that we're occuping the country, but the UN can handle all those rag tag people that are hungry and thirty. We'll take care of the oil and the wealth.
Of course, we showed the world the chemical and biological weapons that made Iraq such an imminent threat. Didn't we?
And best of all, all the webloggers don't have to talk about this anymore -- they can back to talking about how great we webloggers are.
How humane.
How well informed.
Oh by the way, did you see this neat trick you can do in Radio?
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Doc Searls - Re: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
4/10/2003; 12:36:22 AM (reads: 805, responses: 0)
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Ah fuck.
Trying to make sense of this, I go back and re-read my post and realize there's yes-I'm-still-peaceblogging paragraph missing.
O well.
For what it's worth, here's just one chunk of what Cheney said:
"Exactly what it will look like is something the people of Iraq are going to have to determine. I think it would be a mistake for we, as Americans, to say, well, look, here's a cookie mold, this is how we do it, this is, therefore, exactly how you have to do it. I don't think that will work. I don't think that takes into account their unique culture and historical experience and so forth. They're going to have to work it themselves and figure out what makes sense from their standpoint, given the social organization and the way their society has functioned in the past. And it'll be a difficult task. But they've got some very able people already engaged in thinking about those kinds of thoughts and issues."
For now I'd like to take him at his word. Let's see what happens.
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