Heheh, last night Chris Coulter, my son Patrick, and I filmed an episode of Beach Walks with Rox. Great burritos from Tres Amigos and a wonderful sunset at the local beach. Talking Mac’s and PCs.

I just got word by email that PRWeek has released its annual CEO survey, this year looking less at communications and more at “the issues and information that impact corporate strategy.”

On November 1, I posted an item to this blog, part of the ongoing Edelman/Wal-Mart kerfuffle. In that post, I noted that the interview Edelman CEO Richard Edelman gave to IT World would be dissected, “the group of bloggers who don’t like PR people being in the blogosphere,” as Richard put it. In response, Amy Bellinger commented:

You might have heard of Wordpress or Akismet (Wordpress is the software/service that hosts my blog here, and Akismet is the service that blocks all sorts of comment spam).

Dick Costolo is the co-founder and CEO of FeedBurner. Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Spyonit.com.

Got a very warm welcome back at Microsoft yesterday.

Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, recently made some interesting comments to The Guardian’s Kate Bulkley. Lanzone talked about the current state of affairs at Ask, and also spoke about the company’s future. He deserves credit for not giving typical responses that have obviously been polished by the PR department.

Last week I got the opportunity to speak with the CEO of ClickTracks John Marshall. During the interview I was able to get his views about topics such as the Web Analytics Industry and J.L. Halsey’s acquisition of ClickTracks.

Regulation FD, which regulates the fair disclosure of information material to a company’s operation, needs to be rethought so more CEOs can start blogging like Sun’s top executive, Jonathan Schwartz.

Dave Taylor has been steadfast in his belief that CEOs should not blog. Period. End of discussion. He said so last year during Global PR Blog Week, and reiterated his belief in a post to his Intuitive Systems blog.

A new UK-based hosted blog service came out of private beta last week and is now open for business.

PRWeb is best known for being in the news distribution business. With the acquisition by public relations software firm Vocus last week, PRWeb has bumped up it’s own presence in the news.

The sensitivity of search string data is suddenly on everyone’s mind due to news of the AOL data leak on a research site this week.

A big day for PRWeb! It’s been difficult keeping this under wraps, but Vocus, a public relations software company, has acquired press release distribution service, PRWeb in a deal worth $28 million.

The question of why chief executive officers at powerful companies do not blog has been circulating in the news again, with the Paper Of Record itself asking the question on a warm Sunday morning.

I use Gmail for both my personal and business e-mail. The business side of things is relatively new (within the last month or so).

The key revolution of the Web is customer empowerment and engagement. The Web empowers the customer more than it empowers the organization. The implications are enormous.

The CEO of Google has a few words to say (or type, anyway) about Net Neutrality. Speaking not just for himself, but on behalf of the company, Eric Schmidt asks “you to take action to protect Internet freedom.”

BusinessWeek’s Rob Hof on a CEO’s guide to Enterprise 2.0:

Reams have been written about what makes for a special or exceptional CEO. The fact that all these articles, business school courses and debates later – we still have very few exceptional CEOs, says none of us has found the “formula”.

CEOs are getting the boot in ever-higher numbers. Data from 2005 shows that more chief executives left office in that year than ever before.