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“Michael Jackson is dead” seems like a very insensitive opening line. Should this be changed?”
Wikipedia editors debating the news of Michael Jackson’s death. News of his passing broke on Wikipedia long before it did on CNN or BBC.
“My thoughts are with his family at this time. But the instant Twitter put out in my name last night was not me.”
British foreign secretary, David Miliband, commenting about a fake tweets in his name that said “Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael.” The Foreign Office has categorically stated that Miliband does not have a Twitter account. The Foreign Office, however, does. Huge difference.
“Way to go Foreign Office, using this tragic loss to promote your own Twitter account!”
Guardian, commenting on the denial made on the foreign secretary’s blog. To which one commenter had this to say:
“Could you maybe do something better with your day such as run the country competently instead of worrying about Michael Jackson?”
S. Miller, a visitor to Miliband’s blog
“The bottom line is that it was a serious misjudgement. They have used a political and human situation that many people are concerned about, to market their products and services, and that is not right.”
Alex Burmaster, communications director Nielsen Online, commenting on Habitat, a furniture store in England, that used unrelated Twitter hashtags to promote itself.
“If you shine the light on other people in social media, eventually that light will shine on you.”
Jason Baer, on things he has learned since he started his blog one year ago.
“Learning is messy, but digital text changes things. Students will edit more, link more, seek more sources, be reflective”
Presentation by David Truss, on how the role of the teacher has changed in a 2.0 world.
“He texts during dinner at restaurants and while walking down the street and twitters at red lights while driving.”
Reader at New York Times, commenting on how people who who would never be so rude as to talk on the phone at a restaurant, have different rules for using Twitter
“Britain’s mums told us where to stick the artificial ingredients. And it wasn’t in the bottle.”
Ad for Sunny Delight, running in Britain’s newspapers, as recointed by Jonah Bloom of AdAge, who suggests marketers need to apologize first. To which one reader responded:
“The first financial institution that apologizes will be apologizing for an entire industry for years of greedy pay packages, excessive “innovation”, disregard of risk, tricky offers & excessive political lobbying. Their customers will likely not be so forgiving as the Brits when they chuckle about Marks & Sparks reducing the price of big bras.”
Advertising Age
“It’s hard to understand how Cheney and Kyl could make statements like this with a straight face…”
Steven R Corman, at ASU’s Hugh Downs School of Communication, commenting on the former vice president and the senator from Arizona’s dismissal of Guantanamo prison being a strategic communication tool for Al Qaeda
“We used to call people who embraced this sort of behavior workaholics. Now we call them crackberries.”
Jim Shea, on how Boomers make way for ‘weisure’ time –fitting fun around work, rather than the other way around.
“…it most definitely wasn’t named for Bing Crosby.”
Fast Company, on Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, that is positioned as a ‘decision engine’
“It’s an interesting use of technology, but I can’t help but feel a bit ‘eeewww!’ about this.”
Twitter user on hearing about surgeons in New York tweeting through a kidney surgery
“The word “campaign” has become the pariah of social marketing. Preferred alternatives include terms like “program,” “initiative,” or even “conversation.”
David Berkowitz, in MediaPost, about the word (borrowing from George Carlin) that will “infect your soul, curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war.”
“Think of it as an early warning system.”
Dan Greenfield on a new tool called Tweet Cloud he has developed for PR and marketing, to make better use of Twitter
“As if there is a lick of difference between those split hairs.”
Arizona Republic editorial on Nancy Pelosi.
“I really hope we don’t get shut down.
Ross Luippold, editor in chief of Texas Travesty, about a fake Twitter Account the student humor magazine had created on behalf of University of Texas at Austin president, William C. Powers Jr.
“1 billion applications served, 35,000 applications available and more than 30 million devices in market.”
Advertising Age on how mobile advertising –app-vertising– is going to change.
“I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but these honorary degrees are apparently pretty hard to come by. So far I’m only 1 for 2 as President.”
President Obama, at his second commencement address this year, at Notre Dame University, with a snide reference to his visit to Arizona State University last week.
“I’m OK.”
Roxana Saberi, Iranian-American journalist who reported for NPR, who was freed from Iranian prison this week.
“But the president I worked for always wanted it short. He thought about people sitting in the audience on a hot day…”
Mark Salter, who has written commencement speeches for Senator John McCain, commeiting on on what president Obama’s speech at Arizona State University would be like.
“It was a shock … we knew the list was coming, but we didn’t think we would be on it.”
Regina Alexander, whose parents own a Chrysler dealership, on the news of the closure of five Arizona dealerships.
“If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes, that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it’s a different thing.”
U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden
“Biden takes train after warning family to beware of confined spaces…”
Headline in ChicagoTribune.com on White House damage control over Joe Biden’s statement.
“The swine influenza outbreak makes Twitter more useful and somewhat useless, at the same time.”
Wayne Kurtzman, Media Bullseye
“Apparently the rate of infection is not as widespread as we might have thought.”
José Ángel Córdova, Mexico’s health minister
“Yes. And NO NO NO. Recently we’ve all been guilty of cheap and dirty!”
Lilamani Dias, CEO of LOwe, Sri Lanka, asked whether advertising standards have inproved over the past five years, on the occasion of the annual creative awards, The Chillies
“Social colonization is when every web experience will be social.”
Jeremiah Owyang, on the news about Facebook opening its walled garden to third-party developers.
Bottom line, Carnival should have been ready sooner with a statement and made it easily accessible on its web site. Surely it has a crisis communications plan?
Len Gutman, Editor of ValleyPRBlog, on the the potential cancellation of a crusie to the Mexican Riviera
“I hate Earth Day the same way I hate Christmas and Thanksgiving … Should we only seek peace on Earth and be thankful one day a year?”
Justine Burt, on the ReGeneration blog
“Enough already. The Oprah and Ashton-i-zation of Twitter is good, if you believe, as I know many of you do, that the more universal Twitter becomes…”
Catherine P. Taylor, on how we are all guilty of being on a constant hunt for cool, but it’s all good.
“This abuse of trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of the work contract.”
Nationale Swisse, an employer who fired a woman who was on Facebook, after calling in sick to say she could not be working in front of a computer. The woman was supposedly on Facebook in bed, using her iPhone.
“conversation shouldn’t be a blind ambition with social media, but rather an end that you seek strategically.”
Rohit Bhargava, on why there are many valid business situations where a conversation via social media are not needed.
“Online media’s ‘favorite child status’ … appears to have diminished over the last few months.”
Nielsen’s Global Online Media Landscape report, 2009
“The world has changed. It is no longer round, nor flat. It is Twitter-bird shaped and people are talking about you, your products and services.”
Wayne Kurtzman, in Media Bullseye
“If we’re still in the first inning of social media, we’re clearly at the bottom of the first, with two men out, runners on first and second, and a hitter who routinely hits into double plays at bat.”
Catherine P. Taylor, in MediaPost, on the Dominoes’ viral video fueled by social media
“this lately exploded pustule on the posterior of the British body politic.”
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, writing in The Telegraph about Damian McBride, the communications strategist at the center of the email scandal in the British Prime Minister’s cabinet.
“The real impact of a blog story happens only when it moves into the traditional media”
Stephen Pollard, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, on how the scandal surrounding Gordon Brown has shifted and exploded.
“The emails were sent from an official government computer email account, so let’s just assume he was at his desk when he wrote them, shall we?”
Editorial in the Daily Telegraph, saying the Prime Minister cannot excuse his political strategist lightly.
“The online social world is about as two-way, multi-way, any-way…”
Josh Bernoff, in Advertisng Age, on why the term ’social media’ is fraught with too much baggage to inspire people to participate in it.
“It’s a hostage rescue operation, something like the Entebbe rescue mission …It has to be discreet and surgical.”
Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Defense Minister, on the Sri Lakan government’s decision to reject the UN appeal for hostages held by the terrorists to leave the so-called safe zone.
“We are linked by geography and history”
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, on the digital town hall meeting from Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, on the eve of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.
“@statesman: I see people on Twitter calling this a “hostage situation” at the Apple Bar. We have NOT been told that by police.”
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