Back from vacation

Five days at the beach and I barely paid attention to the Internet. Skimming the feeds this morning, here's what caught my eye:

• Cuil is live (then dead, then live again). A real competitor to Google? That would be a good thing, but Danny Sullivan offers a good analysis and reasons to be skeptical.
• A data point in the destination versus distribution discussion, and one that continues to suggest that distribution is winning. Can't say I'm particularly fond of the term "brandstreaming."
• Speaking of new terminology, there's a new animal in the PR world, the social media press release. A thoughtful, coordinated approach to applying PR to social media should be a good thing, right? Then why am I afraid that the most common application of the SMPR will be tone deaf spam? I hope I'm wrong.