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By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 11, 2008 08:43 PM It's almost funny, but then again, are they serious or poking fun at the inanity of press releases? Another log on the fire of the PR Spam bruhaha come inadvertantly (?) from Stage Two consulting, which seems at face value, to be an actual recommendation about how to do it as best as they can figure it out. But by laying out the formulaic and bogus nature of the whole thing, they have created a satire of the whole system, even thought they consistently recommend avoiding cuteness and jargon: [from Stage Two Consulting � Our Recommended Press Release Structure] And if the shorter the better, can we winnow it down to exclude the bogus quote from the CEO and the second quote from the famous fan of the company? Can we just drop this all? Can't we just cut to the most minimal? Again, just as in the comments on my recent post on this topic, The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR, PR professionals are approaching this discussion by justifying the way things are being done today in that 'industry', and suggesting minor tweaks. I have not yet seen anyone from the PR side of things actually address the greater issue: how should we be doing this, given everything we know today about communication on the web? My recommendations about MicroPR are largely about conducting PR in an open fasion, in the context of systems like Twitter: Open public discourse, not one:one emails. Doesn't anyone in PR land see the difference? Let me spell it out:
Basically, I see it falling out into two camps: many PR people say, fine, let's twitpitch you, no problem. Others continue to argue for the old ways, which are, practically indistinguishable from spam. But if the whole point is to generate public interest in the subject being discussed, why not go directly into the public sphere? Because PR people see themselves as these back room operators, moving around and doing their thing backstage. The 'audience' isn't supposed to know they are at work. Journalists haven't kicked off their stories by saying 'Joanna Wimplepuss of HyperPR sent me an email today, extolling the virtues of SuperSoftware 3.0., and asserting that John Fizzel said "This is so cool. It's way cool," although I never actually heard him say that.' Instead they have print the bogus quote, incorporate the bulleted lists and links from the press release. Everyone is acting in collusion to spread little teeny tiny white lies to the rest of us. I am too gonzo for that. We need to be honest about who is trying to influence who to do what. And the simplest move is for the PR flacks to come out into the light of day and explicitly say "here's something I think is interesting from my client Blatz Software," and we'll evaluate it on it's own merits. The implication that I want the PR people to make it easier for me to crank out 700 words by midnight is old school, and worst of all, we are supposed to not talk about it, like the illegal aliens making lunch for us at the deli, or mowing our lawns. I want it all to be open and above board, and the PR pros to be just an additional voice in the conversation, instead of being treated like the deranged aunt that lives upstairs and that no one ever talks about. Come out into the light of day. We'll set up an amnesty program, and all the past misdeeds will be forgiven. Classmates.com? More Like NoSecurity.com!
By sarah lacy at May 11, 2008 08:21 PM I usually try to write about sites I've used and, true confession, I've never used Classmates.com. Neither has my husband, Geoff. Nor has his friend Michelle. Maybe we should tell Classmates.com that. For at least two years Geoff and Michelle have been getting weekly emails from Classmates.com addressed to "Gayle" and "Mary." (Both Gayle and Mary had the same respective last names of Geoff and Michelle.) They assumed it was spam. But last week, in a fit of boredom at work Geoff decided to test it. So he went to the site, and sure enough it greeted "Gayle." He said he (or she?) had forgotten his (or her?) password. Classmates sent Gayle/Geoff the password. No security question. He went back to the site, logged in and could see all of Gayle's personal information. Same thing for Mary/Michelle. He forwarded me the link and I could pull it up on my computer-- without even entering her user name and password. The site and profile appeared to all of us to be legit. This was sent to Geoff's Comcast email account, which he's had for about six years. So there's little chance Gayle had it first or anything like that. So what's the story? As far as I can tell it's one of two things: - This is an incredibly sophisticated -- even if odd, misguided and
deceptive-- marketing scheme to rope in new users. And one I can't
imagine ever working. - Classmates.com has horrific underlying technology that can't
remember an accurate email address and has no security at all. Pretty
shocking since 3 million users or so actually pay Classmates.com for
premium messaging services. And this post on TechCrunch details why their traffic and financials don't look so great either. Perhaps the most damning figure, other than slipping market share, is that only 12 million of their 50 million registered users actually use the site. Oh, and the FTC was investigating them for some sleazy auto-billing tactics. Last December, Classmates.com pulled its IPO, putting it at risk of repaying some $50 million in debt. From an outsider's point of view this just appears to be a walking-dead company in a market where there are such better alternatives. If you use Classmates.com-- please tell me why you like it. Because allegedly there are 12 million people out there who do. And if Gayle is reading this, Geoff wants to know if you mind if he deletes your account. iPhone 2.0 beta 5 firmware shows 3G on/off option
May 11, 2008 06:50 PM I Will RUIN You!!!
By sarah lacy at May 11, 2008 06:31 PM So I've spent a few days in New York dining and drinking with Valley friends, New York friends and friends who go back and forth between the two coasts. For whatever reason this visit a lot of cultural differences between the Valley and New York have just jumped out at me. There are also some similarities. And one is that both people in the Valley and the New York tech scene tend to have the same reaction when someone wrongs them. They fire off a text or email that dramatically threatens: I WILL RUIN YOU! (or some close equivalent) My friend Sophie, who is outside tech and the brilliant illustrator who did all of the little "sarah lacys" on this site, was the one who pointed this out after hearing several days of dramatic conversations. I guess it's so commonplace that it had never occurred to me. "What is with the constant reaction of 'I will ruin you'?" she asked, saying she'd expect something dramatic and ego-centric like that from Wall Street but not the supposedly more collegial Valley. As soon as she said it, I remembered a zillion examples of this happening. Truth be told, I did it once. (Then sadly remembered I don't actually have any real power...) This begs a few questions. 1. How many people in the Valley actually have the power to ruin anyone? It's not a gate-keeper system the way some other economies are. There's not one single VC who controls success and because tech moves so fast, a total nobody can become a mogul in a very short time and without anyone's implicit permission. Then again, the Valley is more of a gate-keeper system than it would have you know. There are VCs who can exert so much power they can affect an entrepreneur's fate. And pissing off certain reporters, bloggers or industry commentators can affect an early stage startups buzz. I guess my takeaway is that: No one in the Valley can truly ruin you, but a couple dozen people could truly make your life miserable and your chance at success a lot harder. 2. Why is this always the go-to threat? This one I'm not totally sure about. Is it because power is the most important currency in the Valley? Or is it because entrepreneurs and their ecosystem so live and work and breathe and bleed over the industry that they automatically react violently and emotionally. Theory no. 3: People in the Valley tend to be socially awkward, so maybe they don't know how to react when someone wrongs them. Or just the most simple theory of all: We believe our own hype and just get mad with perceived power. Probably a mix, but I lean towards no. 2 the most. The Valley is a pressure cooker and there's no separation between work and personal life. People put everything they have into what they are building. And their emotions and nerves are raw. When someone wrongs their business, they are wronging them and vice versa. And in that moment they want to attack. The best way: "RUINING" someone which implies taking them out professionally and personally all at once. Interestingly, I've observed something else: Most people don't hold grudges. They react swiftly and violently, but can frequently swallow their pride and become friends-- or at least frenemies-- again. Would love to hear any other theories/ observations in the comments! Top Five Reasons My Mom is AWESOME (Or Why the Valley Has Made Me a Horrible Daughter)
By sarah lacy at May 11, 2008 05:27 PM So let's put this in perspective. In the last six weeks I've been in London, Cannes, Israel, San Francisco and New York and in each city I've been hustling on one of my four jobs whether it's pimping my book, filming for Yahoo at the crack of dawn, blogging or writing very late columns for BusinessWeek. Weekends? What are those? I almost got pneumonia and am now in New York with a nasty cold. I've been slightly off the grid for a day and a half and now have a mountain of direct Twitters, Facebook messages, emails etc to plow through. Tomorrow, I get up at 6 a.m. to shoot at the Nasdaq for Yahoo, then another day of book press and back to SF for three book signing events/ parties and the big book launch on THURSDAY! Not trying to be a martyr. It's all very exciting. But amid all of it I have utterly neglected to send my mother flowers for Mothers Day. So since the Web has sort of gotten me into this mess. (Ok, a stretch, it's really my fault, but I have to blame something.) I am counting on the web to get me out of it. Specifically, my blog. Here are the top five reasons my mom deserves better: 1. She reads my blog. And doesn't care at all about the things I write about. She also read (most of?) my book, despite the constant barrage of F-bombs. (There's even one in the table of contents!) As a result she knows far more about Web 2.0 than any other mom in Memphis, Tn. She even knows what Twitter is and that's more than Kara Swisher can say for people she goes to weddings with. 2. She's wicked smart, but chose her family over career a few times. And that makes her a better person than me, clearly since I'm blogging a Mothers Day note. She gave up a pre-paid Ph.D. program in literature so my dad could take his dream job, and was a stay-at-home mom to five kids until I (the youngest) was in kindergarten. Then, in order to have both, she started teaching literature at the girls school I went to for 13 years. She got to fulfill her dreams while still having loads of bonding time with her youngest to and from school. She accepted she couldn't have it all, and then sort of found a way, while never resenting anyone. That's class, ladies and gentelmen. 3. She made me way cooler in high school because she was the most popular teacher. And let's face it, I kinda needed the help. 4. Despite being a southern woman she never plays the game. No passive-aggressiveness. You always know how she stands on everything (whether you want to or not.) 5. Even though she was an English teacher, she holds back from sending back blog posts marked up with red ink. I can only imagine how many times she reads my stuff gritting her teeth and saying "It's ok. Calm down, Carol. English is a liivinggg language...." So happy Mothers Day to her and any other neglected moms reading this! Facebook, Google to Join MySpace in Data Portability
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By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 11, 2008 07:00 AM Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit - New York Times"“It’s very clear that a significant portion of the increase in transit use is directly caused by people who are looking for alternatives to paying $3.50 a gallon for gas.”
Some cities with long-established public transit systems, like New York and Boston, have seen increases in ridership of 5 percent or more so far this year. But the biggest surges — of 10 to 15 percent or more over last year — are occurring in many metropolitan areas in the South and West where the driving culture is strongest and bus and rail lines are more limited. Here in Denver, for example, ridership was up 8 percent in the first three months of the year compared with last year, despite a fare increase in January and a slowing economy, which usually means fewer commuters. Several routes on the system have reached capacity, particularly at rush hour, for the first time. “We are at a tipping point,” said Clarence W. Marsella, chief executive of the Denver Regional Transportation District, referring to gasoline prices." That's all it takes to get people to move from the car culture to one that is more sustainable: raise the price of gas. So clearly, if the feds want to channel behavior in the right way we should start to slowly, slowly increase taxes on gas, and divert the money to building more mass transit. Pistachio Consulting Inc. » Meaningful Action in the Cyclone AftermathPistachio asks if there are meaningful things we can do in the aftermath of the Burma Cyclone, and the answer looks like 'Not Much'. As usual, after the fact responses to cataclysmic disasters are going to continue to be terrible, and it doesn't take a despotic junta for that: witness Katrina, where ineptitude and stupidity was enough. But she does list various groups trying to get the word out, and various ways to contribute money. Twitpitch: UpTake
By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 11, 2008 02:41 AM UpTake helps u make better travel decisions, powered by 20 mm travel opinions/reviews of edglings from 1000+ sites. Elliott Ng 01:38 PM May 07, 2008 from web in reply to stoweboyd I Bet That Clear Is Going To Do Everything Wrong
By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 11, 2008 02:19 AM I had a minor headache with the Clear security folks tonight at IAD (Dulles, near DC). I arrived at about 8:45pm, checked in, and proceeded to the Clear security line -- where I have paid money, filled forms, done biometric profiling -- with the expectation that I would rapidly move through the security check of my carry on bag, and person. But... the signage said that it would be open to 9:15pm (which I had checked on my last trip), but they were closed at 9:05pm. I went to the website to give feedback: no feedback option. I clicked on Help -- although it looks like they need help, not me -- and found an option for email. But they had this ambiguous heading: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
What does that mean? Are they going to answer my question or not? Still, I sent the following: I arrived at IAD tonight at 8:45pm, checked in at Virgin Atlantic, and headed down to the Clear line, with posted hours of 9:15pm closing. Got there at 9:04. Closed. The people at the employee security line next to Clear said they closed at 9pm. After sending that message, this appeared: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
What does that mean? Getting the sense that email was not the best way to talk to clear, I called. I spoke with someone for a few seconds, and was immediately put on hold so that she could 'check with a supervisor'. She came back and said that the posted hours on the website have a closing at 9:15pm on weekdays and 9:00pm on weekends. I pointed out that the sign doesn't make that distinction, and that others might have been confused, like I was from seeing the sign. I looked, and yes, there is a 9pm posted closing on the website" .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Apologies, So sorry. I suggested that instead of apologizing they should fix the sign. Yessir, so sorry sir. We'll see. I will check what's on the sign when I return from Europe. But people should definitely ignore the signs, and look on the web, if this episode is any indicator. Male viewers on Sex and the City
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By James Robinson at May 10, 2008 11:05 PM The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR
By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 10, 2008 09:16 PM Gina Trapani, of Lifehacker, has created a prspammers wiki where she and others can publicly out PR firms that are spamming bloggers at their personal email addresses, or using other unsavory spammish practices. She announced the blacklist in a twitter message, here, inviting others to add to it. Various practitioners (Todd Defren, Brian Solis, and so on) have written what I think are heartfelt apologies for the missteps that their firms and the industry as a whole has made. These are being collated at PR Openmic. Personally, I feel that it is the whole system that is wrong, and piecemeal solutions like blacklists and filtering, and one:one agreements about how I, some specific blogger, should be approached by some specific firm won't work in the long run -- these are all stop gaps and band-aids. The root cause here is the delusion on the part of the clients that this sort of PR carpet bombing works, that mass media messages embedded in a press release or press release-ish email work, and that we, the bloggers, actually react positively to this junk. We, the bloggers and journalists, need to stand up and shout, 'Stop! This doesn't work! Shut up! Stop shouting! Stop screaming your bilge! Stop screaming and listen!' We need to shout them down, because they aren't taking our subtle little hints, like deleting the email and not responding. They aren't paying attention. There is no feedback loop, just a messianic faith in the power of PR blitz. Despite the fact that some PR practitioners publicly state their allegiance to the Cluetrain Manifesto, real conversation is too time consuming for companies: their attention span is too short. Maybe someday, a decade from now, PR flacks will have evolved the new DNA needed to really change. An occasional mutant may pop up even today, but the corporate/pr firm hypocrisy is so general and contaminating to all it touches that even the most enlightened will find themselves turned, just like a well-meaning businessman will find him/herself involved in bribes after a few months in Russia or Pakistan: there is no option. So, this is an additional argument for MicroPR: forcing PR firms to approach us in the open, on open social flow apps like Twitter, and in the small, where they have to jettison all the claptrap of the old press release model. In the open, that can't lie easily, or they will be caught on it. In the small, they have to junk the meaningless superlatives, the bogus quotes that no CEO ever mouthed, the run-on phrases, the disembodied third party mumbo jumbo, as if the press release were edited by God. On Twitter, I will simply block people that abuse my willingness to have an open dialog about products with PR folks, or basically anyone else, for that matter. And I am implicitly inviting everyone in my Twitter sphere of influence to participate, too. I want it to be a shared space for investigation into new tools, so by all means, twitpitch me! But please, please, get out of my inbox. I am using that for completely different things: communicating with people I know relatively well, about mutual concerns. PR folks pushing what they thinks is newsworthy information to me via email is so close to spam that there is no practical difference. So unless I have explicitly signed up to receive it on my email, don't send it. Twitpitch me, instead (the specific of how to do that are here: Twitpitch Is The Future). Email I have asked to receive is considered 'Bacn' not 'Spam', to use Chris Brogan's term. Brian Solis attempts to make the case that PR folks sending things we might want -- based on their decisions -- should be considered 'Tofu' not 'Spam'. I am sorry Brian, but there is no Tofu, there is only Spam. Just because I personally know a PR person, and have chatted in the past, doesn't give them the right to send me some email about AdjectiveNoun's brand new Transfibrilator 2.0. It's like your a taxi driver proselytizing for a religious sect, or your GP trying to sell you tupperware. The personal social or business relationship is not an open invitation to selling other junk. I also suggest to bloggers and journalists to do as I have done, and post a persistent link on your blog called 'How To Pitch Me' or the like, and state how others ought to -- and ought not to -- pitch you. I explicitly say 'don't use email, use twitter', but you should each state explicitly how they should do it. I also state that I have a three strikes and you're out rule, after which they are spam filtered. I predict that we will see a huge shift toward open and small, toward MicroPR, and that the smartest PR professionals will adopt that with relief. They know the Emperor has not clothes, that this scattershot approach to getting the word out is dead. We have to point them in the right direction, and hope they will pick up on the new mode of interaction, but if they don't some other group will figure it out, and those marketing dollars will shift, like a river jumping it's banks. [Update 6:23pm: jtoeman directed my attention to this post, Hey Bloggers, Tell Us How To Pitch You, where he asks us to tell them what to do. Meg Roberts makes some very naive statements in her post, A Young Pro’s Take: Media Relations and the New PR Blacklists, but asks several compelling questions: why don't colleges teach more about pitching the media, and -- even more compelllingly -- what are the training programs in place at the PR firms, if any. I bet it's all slapdash, with new hires expected to learn by watching or doing, with a sort of sink-or-swim philosophy behind it.] Cover Stream 2.0: iTunes Cover Flow for the desktop
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By stowe.boyd@gmail.com (Stowe Boyd) at May 10, 2008 02:53 PM Just got the new Nokia N82 (courtesy of the Nokia Bloggers program). I have been anticipating various new phones because of the new xenon flash, which is purported to be much better in low light situations than the older LED flash, like the one on my N95. I have also been waiting for new mapping and GPS navigation tools, but the flash thing has been a real pain in my use of the N95, so I decide to check that out first. Here's a picture of a dark area under my desk with the N95: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
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I am headed to Europe to meet all sorts of interesting folks, and I will be taking a lot of photos in the typical low-light demi-monde of restaurants and bars, I am sure. Expect to see a much higher quality than in the past, and, as a direct consequence, I bet I will be taking a lot more pictures of people at night. I just hope that various apps I use on the n95 -- gmail, flixwagon, etc. -- will fly on the n82. Ditto on syncing with my calendar on the Mac. Checking Out With Bluetooth
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