Best name ever for a PR blog

Flack Ops

PR blogosphere

I miss the sense of ocmmunity we used to have in PR blogosphere. When I first started blogging there were only a handful of PR blogs and it was possible to read all of them. As our numbers swelled, Constantin Bastura created a Blogdigger Group of all the PR blogs that he knew of. It was great, the most recent entries floated to the top, so you had a sense of the PR zeigeist. You could so a search on a topic so you could see what your fellow PR bloggers were saying about it.

There was also a PubSub listing of top PR blogs, which created a lot of competition in both good and bad ways.

Now there is the Advertising Age list of Marketing Communications blogs. It is useful for research purposes, but does not build community the way the old Bloggdigger list did. The closest thing we have to community nowadays is the For Immediate Release FriendFeed Room. Pleasant, informative, but not the same.

New to me data visualization blog

Data-Wunder, from Switzerland.

Today in federal IT

Federal Times reports on an Executive Order establishing "controlled unclassified information."

Computer World reports that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has fastracked 115MHz of spectrum for commercial use.

Microsoft's Bright Side of Government blog announces the winners of the Azure Application Development Contest.

Federal Computer Week's Circuit blog reports that Gary Bass is leaving OMB Watch and that Soraya Correa is moving up at the Department of Homeland Security.

Enterprise 2.0 blog is reporting that Infomation Week Analytics are conducting a survey on Enterprise 2.0 applications.

Via Netspective's Fedsphere.

New to me local PR blogs

bwfpr; the official blog of Brotman•Winter•Fried Communications

CRT/tanaka Blog

I don't do link exchanges

Editorial misogyny

Check out this headline at ZDNet: Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight. Would a case involving men be referred to as a “cat fight?” I should remind readers that headlines are not written by columnists and the column itself seems perfectly thoughtful. I don’t agree with it, but its tone is entirely respectful.

The headline writer at Info World catches the essence of the case: A skank discussion: Privacy, anonymity, and misogyny

Skank specifically refers to a disreputable woman, there are very serious consequences for a woman who is successfully labeled as a skank. For a professional model those consequences might very well include the loss of opportunities to represent certain brands. From little lies big lies grow. She was justified in her suit and the courts acted appropriately in my judgment.

Edit -
From the comments at Boing Boing

Technically, the model has a case because calling someone a skank or ho is a statement and truth can be measured (is she having sex for money or is she excessively promiscuous?) while if she'd flat-out just called her a bitch it would have been an opinion. It is also a statement that can easily be shown to affect the model financially - if she wasn't being hired for jobs where the employers objected to that kind of behavior, or if a morals clause in a contract kicked in. Reputation can be very important in those situations. It is also clear that the intent was malicious.

But let me also point something out: this is cyberbullying on behalf of the fashion student, and it's not cool, and I would 100 times prefer than no one get to be anonymous on the internet than we choose to do nothing about cyberbullying - even between adults, where we otherwise expect them to "just get over it."

Edit ii -
Dan Gillmor has some thoughts on the matter.

New to me local public affairs blog

BLACK VECTOR – Ideas For A New Direction For Public Affairs

EHR blogging

Health Care Informatics has assembled a group of blogs.

Social media is your friend

Study: Referring links critical in search query rankings

This is why it is important to know who the bloggers are in your industry and to cultivate them. It is also why it it better to have lots of little employee blogs rather than one official corporate blog.

New to me local tech blogs

The Agile Mind, Explorations in Virtual Government and Virtual Journalism

Also on Twitter.


Sustainable Public Financial Management, This blog explores sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Public Financial Management (PFM).

sneaq

1x57

Fantom Planet

Clay Johnson

The Guerilla CISO

Who should blog the G20 Summit?

Nominate a Blogger

50 influential and knowledgeable bloggers will be invited to attend the G20 Summit on April 2nd in London, UK, where they will get unprecedented access to world leaders and thinkers and the chance to ask questions about the issues important to them. Twenty of those bloggers will be nominated by you. Please use the form to nominate a blogger that you think should be one of those twenty.

New to me local tech blogs

powdermonkey - Grinding together ideas, technology and information

pureinformation.org, Timothy Vollmer is an IT policy analyst, bicyclist, and food lover residing in Washington, D.C.


Rise of the Third Estate, Empowerment through Social Media

Gwynne on dot-gov

Strategic Communications 2.0, Where social media and strategic communications intersect

NoneFor.Me

Darren Krape, a social media specialist, web designer and developer

STAR-TIDES, transportable infrastructures for development and emergency support

Blue Mountain Labs

The Snark Hunter

Mobius Development

doodle dabbles

ScienceLogic Blog

Dave Troy


Anne Juel Jørgensen’s Blog, PR, Politics, and Technology

Digital Fan Girl

Miracle World Blog

August Jackson

rdworth.org

mojavelinux.com

Morning Compilation by Hal Hayes

CTO 2.0 - A Technology Blog by Antonio Chagoury

Upcoming Developer and IT Pro Community Events

Dreamin' Steven

Web 2.0 Blog - Discovering Innovation Opportunities using Social Media

CMMI for Services Diary, A blow-by-blow, warts-and-all account of one little company’s attempt to apply the CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) to its business.

david-s.net

Ken Yarmosh

PerfectDisk Blog from Raxco.com Defrag software

e2.oh - Investigations Into Enterprise 2.0, management & technology in a transparent era.

Andrew's (Tumbling) Interwebdiary, A Hideous Triumph of Form and Function

Mojavelinux

WelchmanPierpoint

Frank La Vigne

Joab Jackson is blogging

Somehow it escaped my notice that Joab Jackson has his own technology blog in addition to the one he contributes to for Government Computer News.

Wikipedia's misguided policy on blogs

Wikipedia bans all links to blogs, including very popular ones like RedWriteWeb. Long ago I tried to link my interview with Bob Somerby to his Wikipedia page, it was banned as spam.

SourceWatch will link to blogs, as long as the blog is providing relevant and verifiable information.

Wikipedia's policy is wrong headed and not in the interests of the free flow of information or providing value to its readers.

New to me Gov't and Defense IT blog

The Packet Rat, Picking through the wreckage of the headlong collision of Government and technology.

New to me local tech blog

Zatz Not Funny! All your digital media goodness.

New to me content managment blog

assertTrue(this), Techno-cruft from around the Web, plus really pithy observations about Java and other future legacy technologies. Yes, pithy I say.

New to me Microsoft blog

Microsoft On the Issues: news, perspectives, and analysis on legal and policy issues. (Via PR Week)

New to me: GSA blog

Via Chris Dorobek: Around the Corner: Innovation in the Business of Government: A One GSA, One Voice Blog