It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for a holiday.

I’ve been in Paris today at the route launch for the 2007 Tour de France at Le Palais des Congres – definitely the largest news conference I’ve ever attended.

Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.

Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.

Matthew Stibbe at Bad Language has a great post about new marketing techniques.

Microsoft has today released Internet Explorer 7 for general download.

Getting your email marketing to the inbox can be a challenge. The Internet Advertising Bureau has just released a great new free guide to doing this successfully.

Brand is one of the most mis-used words in marketing. I’ve been thinking about what affects brand perception in social media.

Several days on from the original debate around “Wal-marting across America” Richard Edelman and Steve Rubel have posted about Edelman’s involvement.

Today’s UK Sunday Times has a good analysis on the sale of YouTube to Google, including discussion of the copyright issues and some broader commentary on social media.

I’ve been following the outpouring of blog posts about “Wal-marting across America” with interest. Could this be another example of the blogosphere not checking its sources?

The new Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) website has just launched. The site was designed and build by the team at Netsite, and I acted as website consultant for the folks at the PCT.

Ian Green’s writing a short piece for Revolution about corporate blogging.

Marketing Week magazine (UK) confirms that global mobile telecoms firm Vodafone will be launching a presence in Second Life by the end of this year.

The Writely service has now been merged with Google’s spreadsheet system to become the imaginatively named “Google Docs & Spreadsheet”.

Periodical marketing Information about advertising in magazines and periodicals. (tags: marketing)

The deal has been done – Google has picked up YouTube for $1.65m this morning.

Philip Young has been doing some thinking about what a blog actually is for a public relations practitioner.

A piece on the front page of PR Week catches my eye with a story headed “Borkowski PRO in celeb email spat”, as well as a short piece inside about outsourcing local government media relations.

Inspired by a post by Rohit Bhargava I thought I’d try to make it easier for readers of my blog to add the RSS feed to their favourite feedreader and to their preferred social bookmarking site.

I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be going to the Delivering the New PR conference in London on Friday, 10 November 2006.

Spotted an interesting discussion about a recent report by Nielson Netratings, which included some insight into awareness of some new-ish technologies or tools like RSS, IPTV, VOD or wikis.

Last week’s Marketing Week magazine marked a moment of truth for me about how the marketing and PR professions each view social media.

Alex over at The Bivings Report has posted how you can use a range of free social media tools to monitor online news and coverage.

A couple of days ago I spotted Steve Rubel posting about how he finds content to blog about – he has created a blog feeder. A new tool from Technorati has increased the potential for such blog feeders.