The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #26: April 21, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on not knowing what to think about blogs; recording on an iPod; on enjoying open source marketing interview; more on character blogs; screencasting and Camtasia; on IBM intranets and good publicity; suggestions for transcribing interviews; syndicating RSS content; from our Australia correspondent); report on the Blognomics conference; don’t dismiss press releases; […]

Catholic Insider podcasting rig

A special invited guest at yesterday’s Blognomics conference in Amsterdam was Father Rodrick Vonhogen of the Catholic Insider podcast, the one that’s been top of the downloads hit parade on Podcast Alley for some weeks. Father Rodrick couldn’t make it, unfortunately – he’s still in Rome podcasting from the Vatican – so he made a […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #27: April 25, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on character blogs, recording with an ipod, our mention in the New Scientists article on Skype, FeedDemon, our review of Yahoo 360 and employer monitoring of employee e-mail and online activity); Les Blogs update; Business Week’s cover story, "Blogs Will Change Your Business," communication strategic planning, executive voice in a CEO […]

Size matters little

Size matters, right? As in “My X is bigger than your X.” So the bigger a thing is the more cool it is and, if you’re male, the more macho you are. Right? Well, how about “My X is smaller than your X”? In Paris this morning, David Tebbutt and I were discussing how devices […]

RSS feed hijack!

A very peculiar thing with the RSS feeds for some of the blogs that I read has happened since yesterday. I use FeedDemon version 1.5 (the latest version). If you’re familiar with FeedDemon, you’ll know that you have channel groups that contain individual channels (the RSS feeds) of blogs you select to receive the feeds. […]

Top brands on the net

BBC News: eBay is the top brand name on the net, according to calculations by net monitoring company Envisional. It scored the highest in terms of how positively it is perceived on the net, compared to McDonald’s which had the most negative perception online. Envisional says the top ten brands – selected from the FTSE-100 […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #28: April 28, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on featuring FIR, snarkiness by Business Week, having a guest host for the show, archiving and broadcasting audio input, blogs that float in outer space, audio blog summaries, syndicating RSS feeds, yet more on character blogs, doing promos like Adam Curry, searching podcasts by keywords); a broad review of Les Blogs; […]

Quite a number

vnunet.com: Over 180 million computer users have downloaded Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and Microsoft said […] that it is working to make life more secure for those using non-XP systems. Microsoft released SP2 in August last year. Quite a number of people (and businesses) didn’t upgrade automatically via Windows Update amid concerns primarily […]

The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #29: May 2, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on communication strategy, measurement, champagne and tea "from our Australian correspondent"; on communication impact of blogs; podcasting at Les Blogs; identifing a blog author; equipment for mobile podcasting); Doc Searls at Les Blogs; Business Week’s cover story on blogs; lots of developments with podcasting; upcoming interviews in May; suggestions for co-hosts […]