Category: Ethics
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Creative Commons has teeth
Regular listeners to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast will be familiar with the lawsuit Curry filed against a Dutch tabloid concerning family photos Curry had posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons license. The tabloid published some of these…
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Using Digg to game the stock market
In yesterday’s show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release. That pales in comparison to this story from VNU’s Silicon Valley Sleuth…
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Blogger relations and full transparency
Shel and I had quite a robust discussion about the Wal-Mart and Edelman blogger relations campaign yesterday in show #119 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report. The first time we’ve engaged in debate in the style (without the politics)…
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Disclosure and transparency: It’s PR 101
Our little PR corner of the blogosphere is awash with opinion about the Wal-Mart/Edelman blogger outreach campaign stemming from a story in the New York Times on Tuesday. Concise recap: This is about US retailer Wal-Mart and how they are…
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A whiff of window-dressing in Wal-Mart’s blogger relations campaign
When I first read Tuesday’s New York Times story about Wal-Mart, bloggers and Edelman PR, my mixed reaction included one of incredulity. This story is about US retailer Wal-Mart and how they are reaching out to bloggers as part of…