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 […]
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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 […]
RSS: Great fit for the corporate environment
In its 18 July edition, Red Herring magazine has a good feature article about RSS in the enterprise, focusing in particular on NewsGator and what Red Herring says is its emerging market leadership: […] While a newsreader is a lightweight project – not much of a business – NewsGator has been aggressive about synchronizing a […]
Manage your online presence with Jyve for Skype
If you use the Skype internet phone service, you know that it’s a very useful tool for easy communication that can save you considerable sums of money on your phone bill compared to ‘normal’ phone services. The example I posted in January, where I commented on the astonishingly-low cost of a 35-minute conference call, is […]
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 […]
Mobile phone growth key driver for videocasting
Mobile phone sales will exceed one billion handsets a year by 2009 as they become the most common consumer electronics device with 2.6 billion people worldwide using one by then, according to a survey by IT industry analysts Gartner published yesterday, says a Reuters report. Many of these devices will be smartphones with big colour […]
Game sex scenes denial hits GTA maker’s share price
BBC News: The best-selling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas game has been given an adults only ratings in the US after explicit sexual content was found in it. The Entertainment Software Rating Board changed the rating as the game’s publisher Take Two admitted it created sex scenes found in the title. There would be nothing […]
Blog campaign backs Land Rover into a corner
Adrian Melrose’s The Truth About the Land Rover Discovery 3 campaign has shifted up a gear – and Land Rover still don’t appear to be paying attention. This is to do with a very unhappy Land Rover customer and how he’s using his blog as part of his attempts to get satisfaction to his grievances […]
Police appeal for photos of London bombings
More bombings in London today, as media worldwide is reporting. Minor this time and, thankfully, no deaths reported. As with the 7 July bombings in London, people directly caught up in events record and publish those events with cameras, camera phones and whatever means of communication they have available. So direct appeals by the police […]
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 […]
Anti-drug web ads grab attention
Eye-catching, isn’t it? I spotted this web ad on the US News.com site when reading an article about corporate blogging (a very good and well-written article, by the way: see separate post). The ad certainly grabbed my attention. Not only this one – the page also displayed two banner ads, one horizontal the other vertical. […]
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 […]
Does Europe need an EFF?
If we don’t let the politicians know what we’re worried about, we’ll inevitably end up stripped of the rights we presently have, says Nicole Simon. Prompted by a call for support for a UK-based tech/civil liberties organization by Cory Doctorow, Nicole has just launched a pledge to garner support for establishing such an organization at […]
Effective communication starts with the simple things
CIO Insight: Computers in exam rooms help doctors communicate with patients, but only if the doctor already communicates well. For doctors with poor interaction skills, computers exacerbate their problems. Such doctors tended to interact more with the computer and less with the patients. Which just proves a point. You can have all the tools in […]