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Flack swears off Kool-Aid

Last we heard from PR flack Steve Rubel, he was on his knees apologizing for publicly trashing PC Magazine. Now Edelman PR's spokesblogger wants the world to know he's sorry for inflating the Web 2.0 bubble. He writes, "Since I started this blog lots of people have rightfully made fun of how much I touted every little new site to come along. Their criticism is accurate." Don't worry, Steve. It's not your fault. You'd only be guilty if you'd actually succeeded at imitating Michael Arrington.

videobloggers

Amanda Congdon's ABC rocket goes boom!

ABC has finally realized that popular, busty, vacuous Internet anchorwomen do not translate into popular, busty, vacuous television anchors. The network is severing its one-year relationship with Amanda Congdon, who shot to Internet fame hosting the videoblog Rocketboom. So what now? More »

cisco

The Internet? KISS says, "Lick it up!"


Never have I been more disappointed in an online video than this one pointed out to me by John Paczkowski of AllThingsD, in which Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley from fire-breathing, '70s glam-rock band KISS are asked what they think of the "connected life." No, they don't scream in the Cisco rep's ears and tell online viewers to "LICK UP MY BROADBAND!" Instead, Simmons and Stanley act like the most compliant of Federated Media spokesbloggers and muse about how everything on the Internet is now available to us, thanks to the Internet, and gosh darn it, why aren't computer screens bigger?