Cash for internships

Earlier this week I read a wire story in the Globe and Mail about students having to pay a fair bit of money to secure a Wall Street internship. Here it is from another outlet.Now, while this doesn’t apply to PR (yet), I don’t like it one bit. I think...

Wrong publication date

I just published my most recent post moments ago. But since I started writing it on Wednesday and saved it in draft form, the pub date is wrong. And short of copying, deleting and then starting all over again, I can’t figure out how to correct that...

Start the presses

Say you’re a print media junkie, interested in seeing front page news from… Duluth, Minnesota, Winnipeg, Manitoba (yes, my hometown), Omaha, Nebraska or any of over 600 other international newspapers. You could go to the library, but chances are anything...

Spam comments

I had my first spam comment yesterday, in a version of Spanish that did not translate or make sense. I decided to delete it and changed the comments settings to now include word verification.

An oblogation for 2008

I spent much of my free time last year trying to understand and get familiar with the ways of the blogosphere. Truth is, I still feel like I’m just dipping my toes in shallow water and swimming way over my head at the same time.And that uncertainty is both...