“Google is the oxygen in this ecosystem”
John Battelle, journalist and author, commenting on the company called Google that started out in this garage on 7 September, 2008.
“I had thought 51 years of rough-and-tumble journalism in Washington made me more enemies than friends, but my recent experience suggests the opposite may be the case.”
Robert Novak, longtime journalist, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who was disgnosed with brain cancer.
“In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks.”
Nick Cohen, The observer, UK
“Colgate University Has an Official Twitterer. World Yawns.”
Headline for article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how the university is using micro-blogging.
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Steve Jobs, using the Mark Twain line to open his address at a Mac event.
“It works like predictive texting. You start to type in a word…it suggests what you might mean to say. Like….you start to type in “stre”, and it might suggest “street view” or “utter lack of privacy” or “you only need to sign off 3,793 papers to get your face off our program”
Jodie Andrefsky, with a cynical take on Google’s claim to ‘anonymize’ people’s searches on the new web browser, Chrome.
“Houston, we have a PR problem! I’d offer the McCain campaign some PR advice, but I can’t seem to stop laughing…”
Len Gutman, at ValleyPRBlog, a on Saragh Palin’s PR nightmares.
“Good journalism is essential to democracy. With good journalism, you have good government.”
Calvin Trillin, hournalist, poet and author (A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme), who will speak at ASU on 30 September, 2008
“We become the proverbial, ‘just stopping in for a cup of coffee don’t have time to chat social network user’.”
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