More bad news on the publishing front…
According to Internet Week, Salon had until last Saturday to come up with $200,000 for the magazine’s landlord. Thanks to poor results last month, the company had warned investors that it might have to cease trading.
Following on so quickly from the news of the demise of Red Herring this is an awful pity. Salon regularly publishes new, fresh mainstream content, it would be a shame to see it fail.
Marrying Public Relations and Search Engines….
A new PR firm that hopes to marry Public Relations and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is being launched today. The company, SEO-PR, is offering services to companies and agencies that bring together PR and SEO to more effectively promote web sites.
Would you outsource the promotion of your (or your client’s) web site to a third party? We’ll have to wait and see…..
Bovine Blogging…..
Newsweek has a story this week on how Dr. Pepper [Flash warning] is using weblogs to promote it’s new drink. The company has set up it’s own blog to provide the “background” to the drink and it’s trying to encourage other bloggers to link to it and distribute free screensavers etc.
It’ll be interesting to see the results… 
Murphy's Law 