The Missing Links: Everything I Didn’t Comment on in March

Between my smart phone, del.icio.us, scraps of paper, Google Reader shared items, and a stack of small index cards, I make notes for way more blog posts every month than I actually write.

If I haven’t turned one of those into a post by the end of the month, I’m probably never going to. Here are links to posts that sparked a thought, but didn’t make it into a post of my own this month:

The Third Wheel: Should Babs have stayed home? Ottawa PR mandarin Patrick Gossage comments on the advisability of taking Conrad Black’s wife Barbara out of the spotlight at his fraud trial.

Scoble, You’re Wrong: Newspapers Aren’t Dead  Mark Evans rebuts the often-stated opinion that newspapers are on their way out.

More than just Talk Doc Searls explains what The Cluetrain Manifesto authors meant by "markets are conversations".

Friday Editor Lesson of the Day: STOP HAVING SEX WITH PUBLICISTS  The fallout from a personal relationship between a newspaper editor and a publicist who worked for the firm representing a celebrity chosen as "guest editor" of the paper.

How Copywriters Can Bring Peace to the SEO vs. PR Debate  Matt Ambrose examines the issue of who is responsible for the online presence of an organization – and suggests a middle approach.

Managing Perception in Decline – Jim Horton ponders how public relations can help the music industry, when the industry is afraid to face the inevitable.

Citizen Journalist, PR Guy. What’s in a Name? – Shel Israel prefers being called a "markets guy", because public relations, is increasingly about "taking messages from clients and injecting them into the markets, often via the media."

Purple Cow Redux – Seth Godin describes a novel technique he used to promote his book Purple Cow.

How I Was Wrong about the ‘Crisis’ in the Jesus’ Tomb Issue – Gerald Baron originally downplayed the risk faced by those involved in the Jesus Tomb movie. Seeing the career-ending threats to the academics involved, he revised the situation to crisis level.

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