Philip Ryan Johnson

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Sorry Imus, but you deserved it

April 14th, 2007 · No Comments · NYT, advertising, discrimination, diversity, ethics, free speech, imus, news, public relations, racism, relationships, reputation management

I am sick and tired of people saying “this is about free speech and Don Imus has the same rights as any other American” etc. WRONG. It’s about money. Once the advertisers leave, you are toast.

David Carr wrote a great piece in The New York Times yesterday with his list of reasons why it was [...]

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Wilfing…..yeah, explains a lot actually…

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments · add, news, procrastination, wilfing

Ever get online just to check the weather and find yourself watching YouTube videos for two hours? Thank God somebody came up with a term for it:

Although a newly-identified habit, more than two-thirds of the 33.7 million internet users in the UK admit to at least the occasional “wilf” (a term derived from the phrase [...]

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Procrastination

March 4th, 2007 · No Comments · boredom, news, procrastination, social news

In no particular order…

Reddit
Digg
Newsvine
Lifehacker
Boing Boing
NYT

Why? Because it’s Sunday afternoon and I should be preparing for my two journal article presentations, writing hypotheses for my group’s news theory, and studying for my ethics mid-term…hehe.

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