Monthly Archives: August 2007

Across The Sound iPhone Sponsorship - A Useful But Extreme Experiment

Joseph Jaffe has created some waves recently with his offer of sponsorship of his podcast in exchange for an iPhone.
This novel approach to monetizing a podcast is pretty controversial. Basically, on episode #83 of Across The Sound, Jaffe offered sponsorship of an episode of the podcast to the first user that sent him an iPhone. [...]

Are Companies Missing The Point Of Social Media, Or Is Facebook Missing An Opportunity?

The web is full of story after story right now about companies cancelling their advertising on Facebook because of their potential association with dubious content. In the latest move, Reuters reports:
“The British government has halted its advertising on the social networking Web site Facebook over concerns about how its ads are displayed“
I listened with [...]

CBC’s Blogging Guidelines - A Step Too Far

As reported on the Inside the CBC blog, the CBC seems to be cracking down on the online activities of its employees (thanks to Joseph Thornley at Pro PR for flagging it on his blog):
Any CBC employee who wants to start a personal blog which “clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada” now requires their supervisor’s permission, [...]

YearlyKos Convention: Senator Dodd Confronts Bill O’Reilly

Just a quick thought.
Check out this video of Senator Chris Dodd calling Bill O’Reilly out on his real agenda for criticizing the YearlyKos Convention and the US presidential candidates that are attending.
This reminds me a little of Jon Stewart’s infamous interview on CNN’s ‘Crossfire’ (transcript here) that resulted in CNN cancelling Crossfire.
Is it too much [...]