Minor Matter: Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review Hatcheted by Google Blogs (updated)

A kind and very professional person interested in public diplomacy suggested that, to solve the Google Search zapping of the "Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review" on the Internet, which I mentioned in a previous blog, I do the following:

Go the link:  [A link which could be most useful to persons with blogs.]

I dutifully did so, and still my minor contribution to updates on PD on Google remains "verboten," so far as I can tell.

Meanwhile, I sent ex-Department of State social media "expert," now cashing-in Google employee Jared Cohen (he and SM guru Alec Ross are --still? -- pals), an

e-mail via Facebook re this situation, asking on why, essentially, my modest blog has been "liquidated" by Google Search.

No reply thus far. Never expect an answer from a social media functionary, despite their commitment to "communication" (which, on their part, is carefully selected to their own advantage).

See American diplomat and State Department dissindent Peter Van Buren on Alec Ross (a) (b):  Ross as a pretentious, unpleasant, arrogant self-promoter, aiming to be an "eternally-young" ambitious political operative by now far over forty who apparently studied medieval history (I had the unfortunate opportunity to sitting next to him at a British Embassy dinner some years ago; he couldn't think of talking about anything "interesting" except himself). Thank God I had some red wine to drink.

Updated

From an edited a Facebook communication with MC (October 20, 2012):

Of course, we all know that Google, Inc., has no real "person' behind it to deal with the public. Try contacting a "human" directly at Google. For a "social media" company that prizes so-called "interconnectivity," it -- and Facebook -- are totally unresponsive to individual requests/concerns, except through the so-called "help" feature (available on Google; not sure if this is the case of Facebook), which essentially is the blind leading the blind.

The SM (no, not sado-masochism, but social-media) companies' justification for this neglect of the so-called consumers (don't expect them to call us human beings!) is : Our product is offered "free" to you, so stop bitching!

Free my butt! These companies are collecting, free of charge for them (the SM executives), tons of info that they can sell to the powers-that-be, through advertising (and doubtless other methods we "consumers" know nothing about) info about OURSELVES by proclaiming that our Brave New World of cyberspace is bound to be "Facebook-to-Facebook."

Let's not mince words: Essentially the whole SM process, while proclaiming that its aim to to "bring people together," is about techno eager beavers (what's the right word? Silicon valley "entrepreneurs") selling data about consumers to marketers).

To make all-American MONEY.

All this in the name of "communications" ...

And remember, above all: "The business of America is business."

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