PR Briefs - News Items October 2, 2006

• Spoiled Rotten (Apple) - Joseph Jaffe - The big question is, why do people let Apple get away with such consumer-unfriendly behaviour?
• Avoiding Tradmarkicide: Ziplock Bags and Apple’s iPod - Kami Huyse - The Apple trademark legal battle that's shaping up, and the challenge of protecting a trademark from becoming a generic term.
• PR Pro says NO to Skin Whitener Cosmetics - what is SK-II to do? - Pierce Mattie - Toxic products and promotion.
• Guess what? Press releases have never been exclusively for the press - David Meerman Scott - The argument against viewing a news release as something written just for journalists.
• Everybody Has the Right to Be Depressed - Scott Baradell - Depression can hit celebrities and the wealthy, the popular and the beautiful. Scott B. takes the media to task for attacking famous people who struggle with depression.
• The Social Bookmarking Faceoff - A good comparison of the various social bookmarking sites. Link via Brian Solis - The Social Bookmarking Faceoff and its Effects on PR.
• If you encrypt, are you guilty? U.S. Customs peaking into your digital life - Tris Hussey - A look at the issue of customs officers wanting to view sensitive, confidential info on your laptop or other device.
• The Future of Television, Revision3 Launches - Thomas Hawk - Digg launches a video service.
• Sharing the PR Podcast Lurrrrve - Paull Young - A quick look at several PR podcasts.
• Where are the Public Relations Firms? - John Andrews - Johnon.com asks why the fresh goods companies aren't doing any proactive public relations in response to the spinach e-coli food scare.
• I'm back to celebrate OneWebDay - Dave Traynor -  wonders if we're any further ahead in our workload and quality of life after all these advances in information.
• Social Media Communciations - A downloadable e-book. 
• Ingenious Reporting Using del.icio.us - David Jones notes a Toronto journalist who encourages people to send her del.icio.us links of things she should check out.
• Why RSS is important to marketers - Paul Gillin posts results of a survey of bloggers.
• Heather Mallick Column at CBC.ca - After quitting her column at the Globe and Mail over editing choices, Heather Mallick lands at CBC.ca with a column.

Tags: china, apple, trademarks, depression, del.icio.us, video, encryption, security, rss, social+media

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Comments

[Brian Solis]

Eric, thanks for the link to the The Social Bookmarking Faceoff! I appreciate it.

[Eric Eggertson]

Hey, Brian. You wrote it. I just linked to it. Thank you for maintaining my faith in the quality of analysis in blogs.

[Paull Young]

Hi Eric - I've been reading for some time, this is my first comment.

Thanks for the link to my PR podcast post!

[Eric Eggertson]

Paull: I've been meaning to do a review of my favourite podcasts for a while. I won't hold it against you that you beat me to the punch. Still lots to say about the various shows.

Thanks for posting a comment. It's always good to have evidence that people are visiting.

[Paull Young]

There is definitely room to go further.

As I noted in my post, I was just thinking about my favourite shows while giving blood - came home and tapped out a PR podcasting primer.

I aimed to give an outline of the show (its content and signifigance), and also describe the 'feel' of it a bit by explaining where/when I listened to it.

If you do do an in-depth review, I hope the Forward Podcast gets a mention :)