Frogs at Webinnovators

All the discussion of lipstick these days makes me think of the old adage, “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince.”  Sure, some frogs are so awful they’re utterly unkissable, and some hop away as soon as they see you...

Not for everybody

Don’t you love it when over-caffeinated people get into screaming matches over how they think coffee should be served? As long as its not happening in front of me in line, I consider it a form of reality TV – it just serves to reaffirm that whatever my...

How to annoy a pitching PR firm

Last week, I posted a bit of my side of Tangyslice’s story of Firstgiving’s selection of a new PR firm, and promised to talk about the thing we did that caused the most trauma to the folks pitching us. It’s hardly unique to PR that the people who...

Beware of web 2.0 people bearing printouts

Perhaps you’ve been following Tangyslice’s series on Selecting a Web 2.0 PR Agency. Part one is here. [update: part III just published!] Upon return from a recent trip to London, Tangy brought me a gag gift, a 147-page, glossy, perfect bound guide to...