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Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming - David Rejeski Somewhere between the summer of 1946, when RCA put their first black-and-white television sets on the market, and 1951, when I Love Lucy app

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Fox News Channel’s coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations produced a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.

Testimony at the Libby Scooter perjury trial about the White House's relationship with journalists.

Five distinct groups among broadband users.

The SEOBook author on link baiting. Actually, he has some good ideas on pitching stories in a way that's more likely to get linked to.

John Wagner suggests communicators in corporations do good work within the budgets they have, to prove the function should have more funding.

Darren Barefoot finds an explanation of what NOT to do when preparing a photo for a print shop.

A community site sponsored by Vancity, which encourages people in the Lower Mainland and Victoria to post their aspirations, and see who else wants to make the same thing happen. Link via Darren Baref

Antonia Zerbesias on the results of the CBC's decision to outsource its publicity and promotions.

Tom Murphy argues that public relations is a long way from a revolution that sees social media displace traditional PR tools. So do your homework, learn about all the new tools, but don't throw out ev

Colin McKay on the Lululemon style of marketing, PR and lifestyle advocacy.

Matthew Roche suggests you use a focus group to help understand "why" things work or don't work on a web site. Watching behaviour is more helpful than asking someone to explain why they are

Morgan McLintic wonders why so few PR bloggers are in-house communications people.