"I frankly don't care who just wrote what on someone else's Wall or who just joined the Carbon Foot Print Group."
George Simpson, at OnlineMediaDaily, about Bill Gates turning off his FaceBook page, and the need to 'Unplug. Delist. Erase. Take down,' and get a life off-line.
"It's 1980 in my office â€" I can't get on the internet, but I hear it's just great."
Brian Williams, talking about the computers being down at NBC, and having to fly blind in prep for the evening news.
"Sure, Wikipedia can and should be "used for research", in the same way a classroom might use a cadaver for research. The class shouldn't take the cadaver home to meet Mother, nor should it use the cadaver to co-sign for a loan."
Comment by reader at The Chronicle of Higher Education, responding to the news that a professor at the University of Texas encourages his students to read Wikipedia -the discussion and history pages, specifically.
"A case study (is) really a story about a hero, a dragon and a damsel in distress. The dragon is the business problem-for example, a project badly behind schedule and over budget. Your company is the hero. The client is the damsel in distress."
Gail Z. Martin, on identifying your customer's story, at Marketing Turnaround Blog.
"As writers and directors, we have our nose in the tent for real for the first time."
Tony Gilroy, writer and director, on the value of the Writer's Strike that ended this week.
"Whatever one calls it, the Council/Bulldog project has a foul odor."
Ray Kotcher, Council chair of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (and Ketchum CEO) on the shady alliance of the Council of PR Firms' and the Bulldog Reporter.
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