There’s not enough good PR tactics that can save Don Imus from the fallout associated with his recent racial statements against members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
Today MSNBC announced that it’ll be dropping the simulcast of his radio show. CBS said that it is still sticking to the two-week suspension. People back [...]

From the Web 2.0 chieftain and the father of Wiki comes some proposed blogging guidelines.

1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3. Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4. Ignore the trolls.
5. Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find [...]

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Papa Jobs’ love letter must’ve had an influence on the good people over at EMI.
Yesterday, The New York Times reported that EMI will no longer be deploying DRM (digital rights management) on the music files that it sells via iTunes. The trade-off? $.30/song more.
The issue of DRM has been one of [...]

This is a little off-topic, but we’ll make it work.
If you have a young one, or otherwise have had to endure the awkward silence of Dora, then you need to check out this spoof that aired recently on SNL.

If nothing else, it’s a Monday reminder that it’s okay to poke fun at yourself – it [...]

The Airbus A380 taxis after landing at JFK International Airport in New York March 19, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
For all of Airbus’ woes, today is the day they seemed to all melt away – if for only that moment when the 550+ passenger plane touched down on U.S. soil for the first time.
The company has been [...]

We knew it was only a matter of time before the lawyers over at Viacom started to lay out some serious smack:
Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, sued Google and YouTube in federal court today, citing “massive intentional copyright infringement.”
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Viacom, which has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent [...]

It’s a defining moment for someone when s/he reads a news article, stops to think, and realizes that some piece of important information is missing. The author either missed an important detail or otherwise decided to omit it from the piece.
Over time and with greater attention to the media, picking up on this starts [...]

We got a kick out of Jon Fine’s recent piece.
In the piece about citizen ads, he lauds several clichés and we thought we’d repost in agreement.
To start, he shortens “‘consumer-generated advertising’ and ‘consumer-generated marketing,’ down to ‘citizen advertising’ and ‘citizen marketing.’”
Then there’s:

engagement, interacting with the brand
community
authentic
breaking through the clutter

We’ll add Web 2.0, social-based, and viral [...]

This just in:
XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
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The combination [...]

Yesterday, the entire northeast got walloped by a winter storm that resulting in hundreds of local closings.
It was a day to sit back and cozy up on a snowy Valentine’s day to watch reporters on your local news station make fools of themselves. There was the report from the manager at highway department, audio [...]