The Flack (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Silicon Valley Watcher 's Tom Foremski has made a sport out of scrutinizing the PR profession these last few years (often with good reason ). Yesterday, he raised a provocative question from which one might infer more disrespect for our perennially beleaguered profession: What are the implications when PR pros, who've built large online followings, use their new digital spheres of influence...
Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Arrington's apparent crusade to protect consumers. Case in point: former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski criticized the New York Times for not writing about the controversy in its recent article about virtual goods. Fake Steve Jobs, Newsweek's Dan Lyons, went even further. He has argued that the Times' failure to do the sort of hard-hitting reporting he thinks Arrington is engaging...
the tweney review (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A couple of weeks ago I took part in a discussion about press embargoes, with Tom Foremski, Damon Darlin and Mark Glaser, skillfully moderated by Sam Whitmore. Also in the audience, and contributing worthy comments, were Rafe Needleman, Paul Boutin, and other members of the press and PR corps. I kicked things off (and got a [...]
Slice (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... reporters that included Mark Glaser of PBS’ MediaShift blog , Damon Darlin of The New York Times , Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher and Dylan Tweney of Wired (a replacement for TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who canceled last-minute). The session lasted for an hour, but could have gone on all night because I walked away realizing two things: (1) no other subject seems to provoke such...
Voices (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By Tom Foremski, tom-foremski Forty years ago today, October 29, 1969 marks the birth of the Internet. The first command typed in was “lo” which crashed the entire Internet – all two machines Read the rest of this post on the original site
Internet News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... Wired.com (Dylan Tweney), Mark Glaser, MediaShift (PBS) and the tech blog Silicon Valley Watcher (Tom Foremski). [ this blog post at ]
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Some cafe owners are discouraging laptop customers by switching off wifi and returning to traditional roots. It could be a good trend... by Tom Foremski
What's New | Sally Falkow (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... meeting of Social Media Club in Palo Alto. The handful of us who attended that meeting, including Tom Foremski who wrote the blog post Die! Press Release Die! debated the need for a new format. Soon after that meeting Todd Defren of Shift Communications created the first Social Media Release Template , which got tons of downloads. And he got lots of calls asking how to use the template –...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... Panelists: Michael Arrington, TechCrunch Damon Darlin, New York Times Mark Glaser, MediaShift Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher When: October 29, 2009 6:00: cocktails and hors d’oeuvres 6:30-7:30 Panel discussion and Q&A Let me know if you have any thoughts about embargoes.
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
"That's the paradox of PR peoples' large, personal media footprint -- they can't use their own access to large numbers of people to promote their clients." via Tom Foremesky @ siliconvalleywatcher.com Tom Foremski notes that some PR professionals have a larger reach online than journalists, which presents both challenges and opportunities. He also adds that journalists will need to...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Ticketmaster buys up exclusive rights to online ticket sales and charges a collection of fees that can nearly double the price of a ticket. What value does it provide to earn such a generous reward?! . . . by Tom Foremski
Mashable (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
... this year. She recently joined several Conde Nast refugees in the launch of Recessionwire . Tom Foremski left his newspaper job five years ago and now reports on his own site Silicon Valley Watcher . John Rebchook covered real estate for the Rocky Mountain News, which folded last year. He’s launched InsideRealEstateNews.com . Elizabeth Larson was a journalist working for the local...
