This blog and the blogger are taking a break for Christmas. Back here just in time for the New Year. Not wholly disconnected, though. I’ll be mobile. Still a fascination for my Nokia N70 and what I can do with it that goes far beyond just making calls. So I expect to be Lifeblogging photos […]
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #97: December 26, 2005
Content summary: A tag-based search engine, hijacked blogs, censorshop at MySpace, Typepad and Salesforce.com apologize for outages, the New York transit strike, the French parliament encourages Web piracy, a cell phone movie contest, listener comments, and more. Show notes for December 26, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #98: December 29, 2005
Content summary: Say goodbye to ‘Intel inside’; Swicki search; businessman wins spam email lawsuit; PR Value Ratio measurement concept; Podzinger out of beta; listeners’ comments discussion; pithy online communications; CEO tagging; PR issues for Alaska Airlines; the music. Show notes for December 29, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a […]
Organizing for the New Year
Housekeeping’s on my mind today. After enjoying Christmas in the UK with family, and being almost wholly switched off from the blogosphere for the best part of a week, I’m finding it quite refreshing to sit in front of my desktop PC today and think not about blogging but about hardware, software and sorting out […]
Taking Swicki for a spin
One of the topics Shel and I discussed in show #98 yesterday of The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast was Swicki. Shel’s been experimenting with this new search engine on his blog and thinks it’s pretty good. So I decided to give it a try and see for myself how good it is. My first […]
Twiddling thumbs
Waiting for chkdsk to complete its diagnostics including a free space hard drive scan on a Windows XP computer is like watching paint dry. And about as thrilling. Continuing my housekeeping mode from yesterday, I’m now spending too much time this morning trying to nail down an irritating little issue that seems to revolve around […]
Pray the name isn’t Kone
If you ever get stuck in a lift, hope that it’s not a lift where the emergency help system is managed by Kone. I had a surreal experience last night, New Year’s Eve, involving a Kone lift, three gorgeous women and a bottle of champagne. We’d been celebrating the New Year Amsterdam-neighbourhood style, where you […]
How to be an internet millionaire
Daily Telegraph: A student who hoped to graduate without debt by setting up a website offering internet advertising space has made £519,000 in only four months. Alex Tew, 21, a first-year business management student at Nottingham University, said he hoped to achieve his aim of making a million dollars – £578,000 – early in the […]
The continuing rise of citizen journalism
BBC News: 2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them. Commentary by Jo Twist of the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank illustrates the far-reaching effects and changes in the […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #99: January 2, 2006
Content summary: Unveiling Intel’s new identity; Lincoln Group’s new pay for PR play in Iraq; trying out the Podlifter transcription service; MakeBot; intranet trends to watch in 2006; Lee Hopkins report; listeners’ comments discussion; the music. Show notes for January 2, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 76-minute conversation […]
The rigmarole of Norton Internet Security
Notwithstanding the Dell Hell saga of last year, I love my Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5 which I bought in August. From a hardware point of view, it works perfectly. No issues whatsoever, so I’m a more than satisfied Dell customer. I wish I could say the same about some of the software running on […]
Mine tragedy ‘miscommunication’
Today’s news of the tragedy at a coal mine in the US where a dozen miners were killed would, for most people, be just another terrible news story were it not for a truly awful element to it. According to news accounts, information emerged initially that one miner had been killed and one other injured, […]
Who do you pay attention to for advice on Windows vulnerability?
When news about the latest Windows vulnerability gets talked about in the news all over the place, you tend to pay close attention. If you haven’t been doing that, here’s what this latest issue is all about, involving a Trojan called Exploit-WMF which is spread via some instant messaging software and email. It’s actually hard […]
The best predictions yet for 2006
Unlike many in the PR blogosphere, I haven’t made any public predictions for 2006 (and don’t intend to). If you do a Technorati search you’ll find hundreds, if not thousands, of bloggers who have. Web 2.0 this, AJAX that, blogs the other… Even many of the PR-related predictions are focused mostly on the technology tools […]
Skype 2.0 out of beta
Lots of interesting news about Skype and some of the things they’re announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. (Heads up for visiting the CES website: loud Flash intro page.) More interesting news – version 2.0 of Skype software for Windows is coming out of beta today and will be available […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #100: January 5, 2006
Content summary: Top 10 sources; your CV as an RSS feed and podcast; World Economic Forum podcasting and blogging at upcoming event; CEOs’ biggest fears; Dan York’s report; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming interview; the music. Show notes for January 5, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 71-minute conversation recorded […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 6-Jan-06
Downloads overtake traditional single sales Dutch government has declared 2006 “Year of the e-Citizen Charter” Gates sees IBM not Google as top Microsoft rival IBM Takes the Cash out of Venture Capital Inquisitor Rocks my Socks Introducing Our New Gadget Blog Is this thing on? Microsoft Defends Censoring Blog in China Microsoft officially now released […]
PR blogger says Clinton could be next Microsoft president
This will be one heck of a scoop for citizen journalism if it turns out to be true: There are some rumors circulating that Steve Ballmer is about to step aside at Microsoft as its day to day operations head to make room for another president. Bill Clinton. From a post today by PR blogger […]
Test your geek quotient
How much of a geek are you? Take the geek test v 3.1 to find out. I scored 30.17751% which makes me a Total Geek, according to this test. About normal, then 😉 How do you rate? (Via Digg)
Transforming corporate identities beyond the razzle dazzle
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly was the place this week for many companies to announce a dazzling array of new tech products, alliances and ventures. The best place I found to keep up with what was going on was the excellent Engadget CES blog which had a non-stop stream of posts. Another […]