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    Image of gtaylor001 gtaylor001
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    Since when was Edelman based in Chicago? Aren't they still on Broadway overlooking Times Square? Maybe Richard Edelman commutes to Chi-Town from the Hamptons...
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @gtaylor001: Edelman's Chicago office is a "co-headquarters". #publicrelations
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    10/27/09

    @gtaylor001:

    Edelman's real HQ is located inside an innocuous-looking volcano. #publicrelations
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    The saddest thing is that this manager who is 56 now could have gotten online as a working adult 15 years ago and had a decade and a half of web experience while todays 23 year olds were still learning fractions.

    The people who made the internet happen are old and very smart now, with a lot of experience, not doddering fools looking to new grads to turn on their printers for them. #publicrelations
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    Image of burbere001 burbere001
    10/26/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle:

    The story is a plant. Edelman was/is a leader in online viral marketing. They just don't talk about that side of their business, unless they get busted as they did with Wal-Mart.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @burbere001: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head.

    There's also a world of difference between the web of 15 years ago and what it's morphed into today. To a lot of olds, it's still e-mail and websites, social networking was something you did face-to-face, and to call someone a friend meant that you trusted them. Now I get "friend requests" from people I've never met, and I can't quite bring myself to stoop to that level of shallowness.

    That attitude has been haunting me over the last year, though. I've previously scorned Twitter and Facebook as vapid wastes of time, and I'm beginning to wonder if I should just let my Lifeclock turn black. #publicrelations
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    Image of burbere002 burbere002
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch:
    Just re-define the word "friend" and problem solved. I'd advise a definition of friend as "someone with whom you've had contact" and not someone you actually trust, actually like or even know. This is not so far removed from most face-to-face friends these days.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/26/09

    @burbere001: If it's a plant, it was written exactly the opposite of anything that is going to enhance their rep #publicrelations
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @burbere002: Then I guess I'm just not as loose with my friendship as I am with my kisses; the word "acquaintance" is overdue for a revival.

    When you call someone you don't trust, don't like, or (God forbid) don't even know your "friend," then the concept becomes meaningless.

    (Sisters, this is how you end up in the hospital at 5am after allegedly being roofied, with no one there to listen to you explain that you only drank five mojitos, and of course you didn't have anything to eat, because you didn't want anyone judging you.)
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    Image of burbere002 burbere002
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Burbere's tech rule #1: All technology alters every environment it enters. Yes, even interpersonal relationships.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @burbere002: Are you Professor Gradwell from McGill? He said something like that about a decade ago. While I agree that today friendship can be extended from real-life interactions to online ones, I call bullshit on referring to people as friends when I know nothing about them at all.

    For example, I have a small group of Gawker friends, and as far as I know, I know none of them from meatspace. These are people who have impressed me on these threads with their reasoning, their perspective and their ability to convince me, although I don't always agree with what they say. (I would hope that those in my small band of followers are similarly discerning, but there's no accounting for taste, or the limits of Gawker's relationship model.) #publicrelations
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    Image of burbere002 burbere002
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: No, not a prof. I'm just another smartass on the internet.

    The whole redefinition of friendship thing is not difficult. It's already happened to a large percentage of the population. They have more or less limited or removed elements of empathy and loyalty from the equation while instituting flexible time horizons/expiration dates.

    Stated another way, most post-modern folks would go Sopranos on their friends, making them part of a N.J. landfill for an extra Tommy Hilfiger gift bag during fashion week.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @burbere002: This is yet another reason why I am praying for an early death. #publicrelations
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    Image of narnio narnio
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    That photo credit is gold. #publicrelations
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    "Punching up" That is sooo retro, so cute.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    I have always loved the title "Account Executive". #publicrelations
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/26/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Yeah? Try being one for 2+ years, then tell me how much you love it. #publicrelations
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @Conchie Birdie: I imagine that Hizzoner was referring to the pretentiousness of the title, since it's usually borne by some 20-something who was wrestling with phonics when I was first explaining this thing called "The Internet" to my bosses. #publicrelations
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: You're lookin at one (hookedonfonics werked fer me?). The title loses its pretentiousness when you realize every other twentysomething you know is an AE as well. #publicrelations
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @Conchie Birdie: I know the title's supposed to impress the client and/or rookie newspeople, but I can't believe that anyone falls for it. #publicrelations
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: I always have a good laugh whenever I meet a "Pete Campbell"-type. It's like, who are you kidding? #publicrelations
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/26/09

    In reply to Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of Kids Digital PR Strategists
    Ronn (sic) Torrossian - The Wonder Years. #publicrelations
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    "Collaborators Unite!" is totes my new computer wallpaper?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    You be nice to Edelman. This is the company that will be pulling our strings for the next decade or so.
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    a blitzkrieg of PR, if you will...
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    Actually, this style was a very popular graphic design trope in the 1980s. (And, like duh, as if they are trying to hide the inspiration. Despite the Steven Heller book, designers post-M&Co are not really all that great at the ha ha.)
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    And I thought the 5000 Days of Summer promo was part of the motif. Hmph.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    Great cover, asians love that Rising Sun motif.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
    "Collaborators Unite" has gone over well in Edelman's Vichy branch office.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/27/09

    In reply to Flack With No-Good Husband Gets New Job
    Ever since the dead rat outside my window I've had less of an impulse to comment on Brunswick and Edelman - related posts.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/27/09

    In reply to Flack With No-Good Husband Gets New Job
    According to Spiegelman, once Denton is indicted for tax evasion somebody will need to step up, so I'd say your prospects at Gawker look pretty good.
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