All the best for 2006
Posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 5:00pm in Off topic | 2 Comments
May you have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!
Stephen
Googlewood
Posted Friday, December 30, 2005 at 2:31pm in Blogging, Media, Technology | Leave a Comment
Yahoo! News: “Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are making their first foray into the movie business, helping to finance a friend’s independent film.
“The Internet moguls are the executive producers of “Broken Arrows,” the story of a man who loses his pregnant wife in a terrorist attack and then takes a job as a hit man.”
Could this be the media company’s first dip of the toe into the movie making business?
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The Sage and Tyne Bridge
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 8:23pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
Rollyo: A powerful research and monitoring tool
Posted at 12:13am in Blogging, PR General | 1 Comment
Although it’s been around some time, I’ve recently started playing with the personal search engine, Rollyo, and have to say it’s got a lot of potential.
If you aren’t familiar with Rollyo, it allows you to create your own search engine using up to 25 websites of your choice. Type a search query into your personalised search engine and it will only scan the websites you’ve assigned.
I’ve created a search roll using UK newspaper websites - so if I were to type in a key word, it will only scan each site for that particular word - ideal as a monitoring tool. Entering specific regional newspaper websites could come in useful for small regional PR agencies also.
But it doesn’t have to be just newspapers. I’ve created a search roll using 25 of my favourite PR blogs which will allow me to read and compare other PR bloggers’ opinions on any particular subject - saving time and aggravation. Using the keywords ‘the press release is dead’ was a good one.
You can create any amount of search rolls and can also add each to your Firefox searchbox.
As more and more publications start shifting their content online, this tool will become even more useful and who knows, could perhaps pose a challenge to traditional media monitoring?
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All the best & a……
Posted Friday, December 23, 2005 at 12:33pm in Blogging | 2 Comments
