Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (Josh buys a podcast rig; no problem with anonymous blogging; big thanks to FIR listeners); locked-out CBC employees with podcasts; an interview from the CBC picket line; Share your Story success; PodcastCon UK starts interviews; IABC Belgium starts a blog; no, your email is not private; get used to hearing about splogs; PRblogs.org launches; blog advice for Adobe; WordPress challenges; Skylook success; impressions of McGraw-Hill; an OPML party.
Show notes for August 22, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 80-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; what’s in this edition; show notes
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 03:01 Josh Hallett gets the same rig as Shel’s original for his own start at podcasting
- 05:21 Patrick Strang doesn’t have a problem with anonymous blogging, generally
- 09:53 Sebastian Kiel says thanks to FIR listeners for feedback to the questions he asked in show #48, and congrats on show #50, and offers some suggestions for the podcast blog
News:
- 15:06 How both sides in a bitter labour dispute are using online communication – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) locks out employees, who start podcasting radio shows and blogging their views
- 21:31 Howard Harawitz on the CBC picket line in Halifax, Canada – interview with Jean LaRoche, CBC reporter, on the use of the internet as a means for employees to communicate their points of view; Shel and Neville discuss the broad potential issues (and opportunities) in labour disputes in future
- 30:38 The success of ‘Share Your Story‘ that gives parents the means to share and discuss their experiences through blogs and message boards
- 34:35 PodcastCon UK gears up for the event in London next month, including a series of podcast interview with participants, the first interview being with Neville
- 37:46 The Chairman of IABC Belgium Chapter starts a blog
Features:
- 40:30 Do you think your email is private? Tom Keefe’s story on software that can tell the sender when you open an email (and much more) and you’d never know – except in the case Tom outlines
- 46:55 Get used to this word: splogs – blogs set up as spam creators (with Blogger being accused as being the worst offender) and the means to report spammers – a new system set up by Google that’s already being abused
- 52:24 PRblogs.org launches, offering PR practitioners, educators and students a community for blogging
- 54:50 Advice for Adobe’s new blogging community from Niall Cook on design, navigation and policies
- 56:02 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins – on the challenges of setting up a new WordPress blog, success with using Skylook, comments soon on Barons to Bloggers
- 62:12 Further thoughts on show #56 (podcasting from a McGraw-Hill conference in New York) – impressions and the tech issues, and the potential for this medium
- 67:43 Shel goes to Dave Winer’s OPML editor show – and why communicators should pay attention to this tool
Outro:
- 73:56 How to give your feedback (new email address: fircomments@gmail.com); show notes; Neville intros the music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Listeners’ comments discussion – Josh Hallett, Patrick Strang, Steve Crescenzo, Eric Eggertson, Deep Background, Sebastian Kiel.
News – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Negotiations, CBS Unplugged, Howard Harawitz, Todd Maffin, Canadian Media Guild, Jean LaRoche, New York Times, Mark Cuban, Charles Pizzo, Lee Lefever, March of Dimes, Share Your Story, PR Week, PodcastCon UK, Nicole Simon, PodcastCon UK signup wiki, IABC Belgium, IABC Belgium Chairman’s Blog, Gerard Murray, IABC New York, IABC Cafe.
Features – Tom Keefe, Warren Bickford, ReadNotify, Google, Blogger, Blog Herald, Blog Critics, TypePad, Dave Sifry’s state of the blogosphere re spam, Technorati, Robert French, PRblogs.org, Edublogs, Niall Cook, Adobe Blogs, Lee Hopkins, Ben Hamilton, WordPress, Skylook, Skype, Barons to Bloggers, Melbourne University Press, Feedster Top 500, Out of Costa Rica, WordPress hosted blogging service, Movable Type, McGraw-Hill, OPML, Dave Winer, Ray Ozzie, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Buzz Bruggeman, Max Hansen.
Outro – Garageband.com, A Different Rhythm, Jackson Brown, 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 fircomments@gmail.com (new email address), 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 25…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)