Does this sound like you? Or Me?

Are you addicted to email?
PC World reports that enough people are that they’re responding while driving, in church, and ahem… while on the toilet.
"Dear Mike - Just thought I’d squeeze off this one email to you…"
Are You Addicted to Email
Ew.



A new, perhaps more fun way of dealing with Spam…

So I was quickly skimming my junk email box before dumping it, in case buried between the "We have $20,000,000 in Nigeria for you" and the "You too can become a secret shopper" emails was something of importance, and I came across this email, about how I should buy a domain name and "get on […]



Deep Throat Revealed!

Vanity Fair is reporting that Ex-FBI official W. Mark Felt says he’s Watergate source known as "Deep Throat."
Intriguing!



National Leave The Office Earlier Day

Got to give props to this woman…
Laura Stack, who runs a consulting firm, has designated June 2nd (Because that’s her birthday) as "National Leave The Office Early Day."
Story here
I give her such credit - it’s like, "hey, I’m going to designated a day, then I’ll get press on it, and I’ll make it happen."
Brilliant. Simply […]



PR Prof’s Blog gets her FIRED

Scary story out of SMU.
A professor who kept an annonymous blog about her experiences on campus was let go - the school says it wasn’t about the blog, she says it was.
Either way, she’s been canned.
Makes for some scary thoughts - what if an employer finds out you’ve said something about them, and fires you […]



Tomorrow on FOX: When Legislators go COMPLETELY INSANE

As former Director of New Media for the New Jersey Devils Hockey Team, this irks me even more than just the basic obvious reason of "He’s an idiot!"
Legislator Wants to Change Name of New Jersey Devils Hockey Team
Five Words: ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??
Have we really become "that society?"
Apparently so. How very sad. I don’t […]



Short Hair is back!

On Satrday night, while drinking at the Stone Rose in the Time Warner Center, my friend Josh mentioned to me that he was very happy that short hair on women is coming back this summer.
Bravo to him for the keen Metrosexual eye - But he’s right - short hair IS coming back. And honestly, it’s […]



Google and RSS - Smart idea

Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion has a good idea - mentioning that Google is using Blogger to power the Google Press Center - so releases show up in RSS.

Helpful for journalists, indeed - I’ll start doing that, as well. Simply posting my client press releases on here - they’ll show up as RSS, making everyone happier, and […]



Oops.

From Popbitch:

At the Amfar charity auction Cannes, co-host Sharon Stone introduced Chris Tucker as Chris Rock.
Oops.



Props to Verizon for a Great Piece of Viral

A great piece of Viral from Verizon Wireless - Anyone catch this yet?
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