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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Video of PRSA What’s Hot and What’s Not in Tech Event

If you are a glutton for punishment, here is the entire video from the Public Relations Society of America’s Silicon Valley chapter’s annual “Media Influencer” dinner, held at the Computer History Museum last week.

BoomTown was one of the tech writers on the panel, which was talking about what the big trends in tech in 2007 [...]

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Kara Visits the Public Relations Society of America–Silicon Valley Chapter–Dinner

Last night, the Public Relations Society of America’s Silicon Valley chapter held its annual “Media Influencer” dinner at the Computer History Museum, which featured a spate of tech journalists pitching a large room full of PR people about what’s hot in the sector.
Turning the tables this year–and apparently getting “honored” by the group–were: Victoria Barret [...]

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Kara Visits CTIA Events in San Francisco

The annual CTIA conference–CTIA reps the wireless industry–opens today in San Francisco, but the action started last night with some parties.
One was thrown by ContentNext Media, the online news site whose flagship paidContent.org writes all about online media, where I talked to Publisher and Editor Rafat Ali about big trends in cellphones.
He was spot on. [...]

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Scoble Is So Right About Kara Being SSSSSOOOOO Right About Silly Facebook Apps!

You always have to get a little worried when someone opens a post like this: Kara! Kara! Kara!
Besides sounding like I am about to invade Pearl Harbor, I thought blogger Robert Scoble was going to slap me around for insulting the inanity of most third-party applications on Facebook. Instead, he agrees and thinks there is [...]

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

I Am Posting This, Too, Just to See if Scoble Will Cry

The logical conclusion of all this iPhone mania–the inevitable descent into the land of let’s-just-go-completely-nuts.
Oh, it blends much better than I thought it would, and just on the smoothie setting (imagine puree!). Pure genius, especially when he says “iSmoke! Don’t breathe this.”
I can only imagine the level of cringe from Robert Scoble, the champion Palo [...]

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Friday, June 29, 2007

iDay in Palo Alto

Things got a little more interesting at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., compared to our video visit on Tuesday.
Here is my newest video on the hubbub, with a tour by blogger and publicity magnet Robert Scoble and some hellos from a few Silicon Valley legends gathered to honor the most exciting Apple tech [...]

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Robert Scoble Is Actually Very Shy

So let’s help him overcome that affliction, because I feel you can’t give the enthusiastic blogger enough attention.
Seriously, Robert Scoble was first in line with his teen-aged son at the Palo Alto Apple store, spending the night to nab the iPhone and Presto’s Joe Beninato was there to capture it all for us on Thursday. [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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