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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #51: July 18, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (more 50th show congrats; do one topic; intercontinental collaboration; a milestone and keep going; the word is getting out; seeking PR feedback; more on blog design and usability; the power of the blog for customers; monitoring and tracking blogs); Adrian Melrose and his Land Rover, continued; advice from GM to would-be […]

Doc Searls starts podcasting

At just over six minutes long, Doc Searls made his first podcast yesterday. Just music and some informal chit-chat including with his little helper (listen and you’ll hear). Why is he doing this? Here’s what Doc says about three and a half minutes into the ‘cast: I have to start podcasting, this is really what […]

Comparing blog publishing offerings

The Online Journalism Review has a good primer and handy comparison chart of some of the major blog publishing platforms, which should be helpful to anyone thinking about starting a blog or thinking about switching platforms. Platforms reviewed and compared are Blogger, TypePad, BlogWare, WordPress, Movable Type and Expression Engine. As a TypePad user, I […]

Ducati sponsors motorcycle blog

Italian blog portal Blogo.it formally launched Motoblog.it today, a new consumer blog on motorcycles with Ducati as the launch sponsor. This is the first sponsorship for a commercial blog in Europe, says Blogo.it’s Luca Lizzeri, and the first big sponsorship for a blog in Italy. It also represents Ducati’s first step into the blogosphere. Ducati […]

Can you help a PR colleague in the USA?

This is a sad tale which I’m posting in the hope that a reader might know how to help. From O’Dwyer’s via Jeremy Pepper: Liver Transplant is Needed Shari Kurzrok, a 31-year-old VP at Ogilvy PR Worldwide, will die within days if she does not receive a liver transplant. She was admitted to New York […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #52: July 21, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (on videocasting; success with iTunes; codes of ethics; blogging about Dell and Land Rover; concerns about Technorati); Canon’s new tool; Blinkx TV and Smartfeed; BlogPulse relaunched website; Global Blog8Live launches; helping Shari Kerzrok; Land Rover customer dissatisfaction campaign; PR Week on podcasting; report from the Spinfluencer; RSS advertising in Europe; […]

Next Windows version – Windows Vista

Much speculation overnight in tech media and around the blogosphere that the next version of Microsoft Windows – currently codenamed Longhorn – will be called Windows Vista. The official word is expected in a press release from Microsoft during today. It’s an interesting name. ‘Vista’ comes from the Italian past participle of vedere, to see, […]

Firefox releases stability update 1.0.6

If you installed version 1.0.5 of Firefox released a few weeks ago, you should definitely install the latest version 1.0.6 released yesterday. Version 1.0.6 fixes some bugs introduced in 1.0.5 that resulted in some Firefox extensions not working correctly: Firefox 1.0.6 is a stability update. We recommend that users upgrade to this latest version. Here’s […]

Senior executive bloggers make the case for blogging

One of the most well-researched and -written feature articles I’ve seen in mainstream media about executive blogging is published in the 25 July issue of US News & World Report. Entitled Blogging Bosses, the 5-page feature on the website studies senior executives in US organizations with analysis and discussion on why they blog, the effects […]

So much innovation

> A British startup wants to give more consumers more chances to hear about what’s in the paper. Otodio bills itself as the “universal, eyes-free document delivery standard.” Just as companies like Audible.com enable radio listeners to hear audio versions of best sellers and any number of other books in their car, Otodio plans to […]

A second blog year begins

Today marks the first birthday of this blog – one year ago today, NevOn opened its doors on TypePad. That day was the starting day for me of ‘proper’ blogging. I’d started a blog in December 2002 with BlogSpot but it wasn’t until last July that I got a much better sense of what I […]