Content summary: RSS, Atom and phonetic alphabet; listeners’ comments discussion (global Hill & Knowlton blogging; registering podcasts with iTunes; Yahoo’s Blog for Hope); suing anonymous bloggers; finding new voice talent; French PR firestarter; big issues for British Airways and Gate Gourmet; Unilever monitors blogs; the war against blog spammers; Blog Business Summit; challenges with trackbacks on Blogger; changing blog hosting services; upcoming interview.
Show notes for August 15, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 75-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.
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In this edition:
Intro:
- 00:29 Neville introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; show notes; what’s in this edition
- 02:31 Shel with some corrections from last Thursday’s show
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 06:34 Niall Cook clarifies the global reach of Hill & Knowlton’s employee blogging initiative
- 07:35 Lee Hopkins asks for help with registering his podcast with iTunes, and plans to test Skype soon
- 10:05 Kevin Dugan with news about Yahoo’s Blog for Hope
News and Features:
- 17:52 A city councilman in the US wants to sue 4 bloggers for defamation, but first he has to find out who they are
- 22:13 Finding professional voice talent with Voice 123 – could it be the resource for a new FIR intro?
- 25:35 French fire brigade’s media spokesman lights the fires – literally
- 28:04 Significant communication and employee relations issues confront British Airways and Gate Gourmet, not to mention PR and customer relationship ones
- 44:26 Unilever pays attention to a loyal customer… who has a blog
- 48:30 Moderating comments and trackbacks – is it an inevitability for bloggers in the war against the spammers?
- 59:30 Blog Business Summit starts on August 17
- 61:54 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins – challenges with trackbacks on Blogger and careful thinking about changing blog hosting service
Outro:
- 69:49 Hold-over topics for next Thursday’s and Monday’s shows as Shel won’t be live on Thursday’s show
- 70:15 How to give your feedback; show notes
- 71:09 Upcoming interview – Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek, 16 August
- 71:52 Neville intros the music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro – Howard Harawitz, Adam Curry, pilots’ phonetic alphabet, James Snell, Known Atom Consumers wiki.
Listeners’ comments discussion – Niall Cook, Hill & Knowlton, Lee Hopkins, Stirling Family Church, iTunes, Skylook, Skype, Kevin Dugan, Yahoo’s Blog for Hope, American Cancer Society, Shari Kurzrok, Tsunami relief blog, Hilary Clinton, Ogilvy PR Worldwide, Jeremy Pepper.
News and Features – Blog Herald, US Constitution First Amendment, Christophe Grebert, Napoleonic Code, Geek News Central, Radio Daddy, Robin Good, Daily Mirror, British Airways, Gate Gourmet, Daily Telegraph, Transport & General Workers Union, Charles Pizzo, Unilever, Steve Rubel, Dan Entin, Land Rover, Adrian Melrose, TypePad, Six Apart, Loic le Meur, Trevor Cook, Expression Engine, CAPCHA, Movable Type, Blogger, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Dave Sifry, Technorati, TypeKey, Blog Business Summit, Evelyn Rodriguez, DL Byron, Chris Brownrigg, Dave Taylor, Robert Scoble, Buzz Bruggeman, Chris Pirillo, Eric Rice, Darren Barefoot, Stowe Boyd, Debbie Weil, Sally Falkow, Rebecca Blood, Biz Stone, Michael Wiley, Lee Hopkins, Haloscan, Constantin Basturea, Allan Jenkins, Andy Beacock, Rob Baillie, Blogsome, Ben Hamilton, SiteSell, Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Outro – McGraw-Hill, Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek, Blogpulse, Free Love, Derek James, Garageband.com, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday August 18…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)