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July 11th, 2008

Truemors and NowPublic brings news full circle

Picked up this nice news yesterday—NowPublic Acquires Truemors—which not only makes Guy happy I’m sure, but I think it adds a nice and interesting facet to NowPublic.
NowPublic is fantastic for expanding local coverage of news and giving people the chance to give their spin on it.
Truemors, of course, is more for those rumours that we’d […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2008

The AP might have a point on copyright, but they are blowing it with us.

I think the AP may just have fired the first volley in their own Waterloo (and maybe the MSM as we know it) with their recent policy fiasco.  The AP will soon learn that, meh we don’t really need them.  News is spreading around the web more freely and with NowPublic on the scene even […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

May 14th, 2008

PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks

There was a bit of a dust-up recently about making lists of “bad PR people” and it’s taken me a while to get to this because I’ve been answering emails from PR folks.  I put out a call on ProfNet that Manscaping 101 (my men’s grooming blog on b5media) was open for business and I’d […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Affiliate Summit Media Coverage Panel

Media coverage on the Internet, and print, is always a hot topic.  How do you handle an advertiser who wants coverage after buying a full-page ad?
Some of the comments so far are great.  Send us a case study, make sure it’s of value to my readers, is it newsworthy.
Andrew Wee mentioned that in smaller publications […]

By Tris Hussey -- 6 comments