Day: March 27, 2003

There’s a high profile court case taking place in the UK at the moment surrounding the dismissal of high profile DJ Chris Evans and his erstwhile employers Virgin Radio.  Interestingly Virgin’s former head of communications appeared in court this week as a witness.

As I’ve discussed before, bloggers aren’t journalists (unless of course they are journalists* – if you catch my drift!), however they are increasingly influential in the online world.

This influence means that it makes a lot of sense to adopt an informal code of ethics.  Rebecca Blood, author of “The Weblog Handbook” has published a six point charter for ethical blogging and it makes a lot of sense.

And of course where ethics end and good taste takes over there’s already the Blogger Manifesto.

* Deborah Branscum, Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Jon Udell, Karlin Lillington and Bernie Goldbach to name but a few!

According to research from Manning Selvage & Lee, technology companies in the Silicon Valley area score more highly than their non-technology counterparts in the media (national and local).  Of course technology companies in the area also core lower than their non-technology counterparts.  Maybe it’s more accurate to report there are more technology firms?

I am also adding Manning Selvage & Lee to our infamous Flash Hall of Shame.

This week has been full of Analyst Relations (AR) content and today is no different.

Brodeur‘s Jonathan Simnett has an interesting article on International AR and why it’s important for US companies to look beyond the continental United States. The story was originally published in Technology Marketing’s newsletter.

There’s an archive of Jonathan’s previous articles here.