The Inquirer has taken great exception to Lighthouse PR’s press release regarding the quality of recent senior PR job applicants.

Describing the firm as “a beacon of pomposity in an ocean of spin”, Evil Doctor Spinola…

Apple has announced a deal with EM! that presumably is the beginning of the end for DRM. Steve Jobs quoted elsewhere as saying he expects over half of the total iTunes catalog to be DRM free by the end of the year.

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Amazon patents cybernetic mind meld.

Following the tip from Amanda Chapel at Strumpette I’ve added voicemail to my blog — go to the top right of the home page and feel free to say what you think — all views considered.

Daryl Willcox has just published his whitepaper on PR vs Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

It’s well worth a read — he raises a number of good points — I’ll add my ten pence worth shortly.

Dennis Howlett has posted about being approached by a US tech company for a recommendation for PR representation over here in Europe.

Canuckflack reports on how Tagcrowd can be used by PRs to quickly analyse text to check for key words and messages. He says it:

• shines a light on underlying tone (positive, negative, inspirational)
• helps you understand…

As Strumpette says, this is a must-read piece — the story of Doug Dowie, the former head of Fleishman Hillard’s LA office wrongly convicted last year of masterminding an over-billing scheme with L.A.’s Department of Water and Power.

I can see the queues forming to write the screenplay based on this one.

Peter Kirwan of FullRun fame reports in his latest weekly newsletter (excellent issue BTW) that he has met TWL in the flesh — and that the identity of the UK’s most (in)famous tech PR gossip-meister and satirist is soon to be revealed.

MEDIA RELATIONS: A flack-resistant Journal — Valleywag

Valleywag reports that the new WSJ managing editor is “tired of the cosy arrangements” that have previously existed with big tech companies on embargoes. VW seems to think this move will be followed by others in the US.

Somebody asked me today who sent the first press release via e-mail in the UK? I’ve always given that accolade to Frank O’Mahony, the then Apple UK PR Manager in 1990. I claimed the number 2 spot a month or so after Frank — at least…