Five Terabytes of Data. So What?
The Library of Congress recently announced it had taken possession of five terabytes of data from Twitter. That’s roughly five trillion keystrokes of information – some interesting, most mundane, many personal, and occasionally some insightful or historical ones. More
The Savvy Socialite
Facebook is at it again.
Some of you may know that our friends at Facebook recently announced yet another change to their insanely popular social networking site. This change will supposedly be made, as with other Facebook tweaks, at some mysterious point in the future. More
The Marketing of Madness
The frenzy around March Madness is really about packaging. My “proof?” Easy. Ask people if they know the significance of Texas Western in NCAA history, most won’t know (unless they’ve seen the movie “Glory Road.”) Ask which college team has won 10 straight national championships, most won’t know. Ask when the field expanded to 65 teams, most won’t know. (Heck, I don’t even know.) More
Lessons in Unintended Consequences: The Corporate Donation Controversy
By Penny Hillemann / August 19, 2010
No matter what your views on recent well-publicized corporate political donations, the resulting brouhaha has been very interesting to watch from a public relations perspective.
The Supreme Court declared earlier this year in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission that the First Amendment’s free-speech protections mean that corporations cannot be prevented from making political contributions to support or oppose a candidate’s election.
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