puff 500 Three Cheers for Robert Cox

Robert Cox is the Founder and President of the Media Bloggers Association, the largest association of bloggers and citizen journalists in the world. The Media Bloggers Association is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members, supporting the development of blogging or citizen journalism as a distinct form of media and helping to “extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen”.

Under Cox’s leadership the MBA has grown into a major force in the development of citizen media with a membership that includes many of the leading bloggers in the world. Cox and thirty co-founders formed the Media Bloggers Association in 2004 which today has more than 1,000 members (and growing) and spans the six continents.

Cox is perhaps most well known for orchestrating two of the most successful “blogstorms” ever - his successful year long campaign to change The New York Times’ “Columnist Correction Policy” for Op-Ed columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Tom Friedman and, more recently, the “Maine Blogger” case where he developed and led a withering media campaign that compelled the State of Maine to order one if its contractors to drop a multi-million dollar Federal lawsuit against an MBA member. Cox regularly takes the lead role in defending MBA members from legal harassment by managing coordinated blog/media campaigns. The MBA also supports its members via pro bono attorneys who contribute their time to the MBA Legal Defense Initiative.

In 2004, Cox received international recognition for his work organizing the MBA’s Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative through which the MBA served up millions of streams of video of the Christmas Tsunami shot by bloggers around the world in partnership with major web content providers such as Mirror Image and The Washington Post.

In 2005, Cox organized BlogNashville, the largest gathering of bloggers at the time – 400 bloggers attending dozens of events, spread over three days on two university campuses. Events included panel discussions, roundtables, education and training, parties, dinners and a daylong “BloggerCon” style conference on the last day. BlogNashville was featured on all three American cable news networks and received international media attention.

Cox is a recognized thought-leader in the world of citizen media and a sought-after panelist, lecturer and corporate speaker. He often appears to discuss journalism and new media in the context of blogging and citizen journalism. As a corporate speaker, he often shares insights based on his “blogstorm” experiences with business and trade associations, corporations, brand marketing companies and consumer products companies seeking to understand threats and opportunities in the blogosphere.

Cox has spoken at the National Press Club, the Kennedy School at Harvard University, Johnson & Johnson, the Radio Television News Director Association, the First Amendment Center,, the National Archives, as well as leading non-profit organizations, universities, and corporations. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows –including the MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, BBC, NPR and CBS Radio and has been featured in stories in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Online Journalism Review, PBS.org and many other news publications.

Cox sits on a number of citizen media advisory boards including NewAssignment.net, Newstrust, Center for Media and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation and others.

Cox first began blogging in 2002. In May 2003. Cox gained notoriety as a blogger in 2004 when the New York Times sought to shut down his blog, The National Debate, over his parody of The Times' columnist correction policy.

Prior to attending business school at the University of Chicago, Cox worked on Wall Street. Since graduating from the Chicago GSB, Cox has provided strategy-consulting services to leading companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Cox spent three years creating and running a venture-financed startup Internet business.

Cox received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He currently resides in New Rochelle, NY with his wife, a professor at Columbia University, and their four children.


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Any enterprise needs workers...



We might talk about this over cards? No?



Travelling?


Sleepy?




Wanna play Wii?



It was a night, just like any other night...



Did you tell me to stay cool until after school?


Going down to the station? Got your suitcase in your hand...



Deal the cards, son, just deal the cards...



Call me...



I thought we could go to a film after the game...


Marianne Faithfull- As Tears Go By 1965


some cards...


Rods?


Rolling Stones- Angie


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What is going on in the music scene?


Cut the cards, Sharpie!


Last Gasp Cafe 14...



Get up and go? Where to?


Gwen Stephani- The Great Escape...


Coffee? Orange juice only from 10.30, Dude...



Last Gasp Cafe 13...


I have GOT to lose weight...


Bob Dylan- Like a Rolling Stone 1966


SERIOUSLY, I HAVE to lose weight...


Requiem for Erika Ortiz :^: Broken Road


Have to DO something about my skin...


Pink Floyd: The Mind's Eye



who is buying?


Lady so Far :-: for Tyra Banks


better make some money...better call home...


C.C.Catch - Backseat of your Cadillac

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just then the computer started to play up...


Last Gasp Cafe 8


Good morning...


Jim Carrey - Standup Routine - Comedy Store (1996)


I've got this, like, really oily skin...


What was that?


Last Gasp Cafe 4...


Good deed done for the day... every day...like a roller coaster...


Last Gasp Cafe 15: Concert for Donnie Darko



I tried to lose weight in a New York minute and nearly got lost...


She read the cards slowly...


Last Gasp Cafe 2...


I went to bed with a book...


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To sleep perchance to...


Cheltenham is on...


BQ on B :-: Brazilian Queen on Beale St


The Lady was talking to Tee about opportunities on the net...


but Throg was dreaming about a back rub...


Throgmorton woke up and thought about an ipod...



Colin for Mark...


Last card, Freddie, Last card...


Chickenman woke up thinking about Bob Greene and Oprah...



Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter(Pop Go the Sixties) 1969


I thought about my business opportunities...don't count your money till the dealings done...


Sweet Miss Jay- Angelina Jolie...


I attended to what was left of the business and did my Sporting Index chores...


I was bored so I called my business advisor on Dialaphone...


she mentioned Zwinky...


I was like,lol, what about Zylom...


Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the devil. Live in Rio 2006


cards,money,cards,money...


things got serious and we talked about Finance Box Houses...


and Finance Box Student Loans...



Showbuzz rox she shouted...


I told her about Bonprix, classy? well yes...


don't forget Anona, Big Sun, Barstow, San Bernadino...and don't forget Yves...


we talked about lost souls we shared and she told me how we might find them on Reunion...


skimming cards on the Riverboat?


Voip? for sure I said...


then we climbed the Lending Tree together...


take a chance on Coral?


me, I'm lost in space...SATNAV for space cowboys like you, she murmured...


we played at the Red Casino...


we flew Siesta...


we met each other again on Yahoo Personal...


Dating?


just having fun on Gameplay actually...


we listened to Attic Jam...


we got right into The Hedrons...


and how about the new album from da Red Hot Chilli Peppers...


you can buy these with a Post Office Credit Card she told me over lunch...


and in the afternoon we flew away on HLX...


I noticed that she wore Nikes...


we booked a lovely place to stay through Cottages...


Radio Story aka The Story Continues...


she looked stunning in her Contessa gear...


Deftones at Taste of Chaos - RX Queen w/ Street Drum Corp



a card up your sleeve, one in your cuff...


we listened in the dark to Beck...


she declared that she would vote for Hilary Clinton...


me, I want more of Mate-dating...


we discussed our bodies and Hoodia...


then she told me about another way to lose weight...
Phentrazine - Now Available Without a Prescription

me being more of a car person I clicked on Auto Loan...


Changing Chairs


she wanted money for other things so she clicked on Ocean Financial...


We both decided that discretion was the better part of valour and we looked at the Privacy Credit Card...


Sweet Killer Love



thought about Global Travel...


and looking good the French way...


U2 and Mary J Blige- One, Madison Square Garden 10-8-05


we talked a little about a career in Criminal Justice...


but what really got us going was the thought of a Bahamas Cruise- the Anna Nicole Smith Tour? Well...


very last card...