I am fascinated by viral video. Videos like the Eepy-Bird Mentos and Diet Coke video are brilliant examples of how viral video can make, or break, a career. But that same video is also an example of how copyright law can be a murky pond of green goop. The video, which was posted at the Eepy-Bird website and powered by read more...

The public relations blogging field is crowded with contenders. There are so many good reads out there. My RSS feedreader has about 150 blogs in it, about a third of them PR blogs that I monitor, the rest blogs and feeds I monitor for clients.

I have been blogging for just over a year and one of my favorite blogs is New Millennium PR, which is authored by Andrea Weckerle. Andrea is a fantastic writer and read more...

While traveling by train in Belgium, this billboard in Ieper (Ypres) jumped out at me. Being that I currently live in Texas, this caricature of Texans gave me a real laugh. The store, Media Markt, sells electronic goods. I saw the television commercial and it was even funnier, more exaggerated. However funny, the image of this American isn't one to which I aspire. I am tagging my other fellow Texas bloggers on this one since you really can't miss it. read more...

Jimmy Wales and the Long Now
Originally uploaded by ioerror. PRSA Publications Editor John Elsasser published a particularly interesting interview with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, in its Web bonus section for "Tactics "and "Strategist."

It turns out that Wales read a "Tactics" article published last March titled, “The wide world of Wikipedia, and why PR read more...

What is new is still news and what is not is still scorned. Twenty-seven people attended the third Second Thursday in Second Life to hear Daniel Terdimen, a journalist with C|Net who’s beat is SL, along with other cultural technology; Ute Hicks, editor of Second Life Business Magazine; and Miller Copeland, editor of In the Grid to share their insights about media in Second Life. Linda Zimmer moderated and read more...