Archive for June, 2007

The guys in the lab have pulled out a host of news feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom, organized by country.  These feeds are going to help us provide our global partners with content; provide enhanced opportunities for PRWeb news subscribers to receive tailored content; and allow our customers to expand the reach of […]

In his most recent podcast, Steve Mullen from EndGame Public Relations, LLC discussed online news release distribution and profiles five different distribution services including PRWeb. 

I moderated a webinar a couple of days ago with Susan Getgood and David Meerman Scott on blogger relations.  We put together a text-based Q&A afterwards based on the questions we received during the webinar.  For the record, we split the questions up into thirds.
Q: Can I raise my profile on Google’s first page by posting […]

The New Communications Review just published a piece I authored a while back entitled, “The Articulation of Power in Social Media.”  The piece is actually an adaptation of my dissertation, which I hope has actually becoming readable thanks to the work of Nina Shariff from v-Fluence. 
I am happy with this version of it, which some […]

Farrell Kramer, who is an absolute sharpie when it comes to all things media, picked up on our Feature Video release and interviewed me for episode 21 of his podcast, Talking Communications.  We had a great discussion and he shared some great insight on the new media release after the interview, which I sort of […]

It is with a great deal of excitement that I’m blogging about Feature Video - a new product innovation released this morning that allows PRWeb users to embed a video in their press release.  The way it works is relatively simple: you basically upload your video to a video sharing Web site like YouTube, Google […]

This is a little outdated but Topix did an interesting study back in the day (2005) comparing topical coverage between the blogosphere and mainstream media. A colleague referred me to the study and I figured it was worth noting for future reference.

37signals is a small development shop based out of Chicago that a former v-Fluence colleague of mine told me about several years ago.  They build collaborative software that places a premium on simplicity and usability - two of my favorite things.  I was laying in bed leafing through Time Magazine last night when I stumbled […]