Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (pitching journalists; IABC recognition; great iRiver recording; how email spies work); blog etiquette: Steve Rubel and Jeremy Pepper trackback stand-off; Max Hansen’s second report from Blog Business Summit; the latest on Dell hell; Lee Hopkins reports from Australia; communication channels in organizations in times of change. Show notes for August […]
Category: Web/Tech
Hot recording Google Talk
I installed Hot Recorder on my new Dell PC today, which I use for recording occasional Skype conversations for the For Immediate Release podcast. Hot Recorder is a great application, as I enthused when I first discovered it in May. As a software-based option for recording phone interviews over Skype for use in podcasts, I […]
Microsoft snaps up Teleo
The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service. In a press release this morning, Microsoft said it plans to use this acquisition as a means to greatly extend the capabilities of MSN Messenger. An announcement on the Teleo website […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #64: September 1, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (more on the PR blogger trackback stand-off; trackback spam; affinity for podcasts; FIR impacts HR; anonymous ok, but not cute and clever; show notes, etc); Hurricane Katrina and the role of blogs; developments in instant messaging; fired for blogging; blogger being sued; the Spinfluencer with Leo Laporte. Show notes for […]
Technorati’s new Blog Finder beta
A trackback overnight from Josh Hallett took me to his initial commentary of the Technorati Blog Finder, a new service launched in beta yesterday. This service does look interesting – Technorati say it will enable you to find blogs that frequently write about subjects you’re interested in by searching on key words. Tags, in other […]
Book review podcast – “Podcast Solutions, The Complete Guide to Podcasting”
We get books. They come in the mail sent by authors, agents, and publishers who hope we’ll review them. Some of these books warrant our attention, so we’ll be reviewing them here as brief podcasts. In the first of these reviews, Shel takes a 17:30-minute look at the excellent “Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to […]
FIR Interview: Jeremy Wright – August 30, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Jeremy Wright, blogger, author and consultant. Topics discussed include Jeremy’s business blogging book and his forthcoming launch of a new consumer blog network. About our conversation partner: Jeremy Wright is a serial entrepreneur, some have even said a blogpreneur for […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 5-Sept-05
$100,000 per year… blogging. 2012 Olympic posts advertised Apple Appears Poised for iTunes Phone Launch BlogML will let you move your blog from service service Call Forwarding with Skype Disney says it does believe in fairies Lake George Pocket-sized DIY customizable paper organizer Podcast Anxiety: a cure has been found Privacy concerns over Yahoo IM […]
Spoiled for choice for getting podcasts
I use Winamp as my default media player. I also have iTunes as well as Windows Media Player that comes with the operating system. But I use Winamp when I want to listen to podcasts on my PC. It’s a compact program with a minimalist display that scrolls the show title and has a nice […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #65: September 5, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (new media, resumes and Googling job seekers; book promotion and blog tours); interviews and reviews; Ray Nagin’s radio interview, Zip 71101 podcast interviews and more Katrina news; new weekly podcast from Steve Rubel and Joseph Jaffe; from our Correspondent Down Under; Darren Barefoot argues that text is better than audio. […]
Virgin Atlantic podcast guide to Havana
The Virgin Atlantic airline has launched their second travel podcast – a guide to Havana, Cuba. Running at about eight and a half minutes, the story is narrated by Clive Anderson, familiar to British TV viewers as the host of the Whose Line Is It Anyway? stand-up comedy show. ‘Narrated’ is the right word as […]
The giant street market
An email from James Cherkoff alerted me to yesterday’s edition of Shop Talk, a weekly BBC Radio 4 business programme, in which he was one of the studio guests talking about blogs and blogging. Together with Adriana Cronin-Lukas of Big Blog Company, Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems, Azeem Azhar, a writer and analyst, and Heather […]
‘Project Green’ begets Microsoft Dynamics
“Project Green” was a code phrase I heard a lot of during my career with Scala Business Solutions, a mid-market ERP vendor and Microsoft Gold certified partner acquired by Epicor last year, and where I spent five years as VP of corporate communication. So it was with some interest that I read the news yesterday […]
Podcast empire-building
Silicon Beat: Podcast Alley, the grassroots podcast directory that played a big role in spurring the popularity of podcasting, has been acquired by PodShow. The deal happened last month, we’re told, and founder Chris McIntyre is already making the move from Nashville to San Francisco. A very interesting development in an embryonic but fast-expanding industry […]
iPod nano… Hot cakes
Now this is sexy! Today Apple announced the iPod nano, a very elegant, slim digital player that supersedes the iPod Mini (which is no longer listed on Apple’s website but is there if you know the URL). Super slim, light and a bright colour screen are three of the great form factors of this cute […]
Speakers and Speeches: Mary Hodder on blog search engines
In this first offering of Speakers and Speeches, For Immediate Release is pleased to offer a 1:34 speech — including Q&A — by Mary Hodder, delivered on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at a meeting of the bloggers and RSS special interest group of the East Bay (California) IT Group (EBIG). Download the conversation here (MP3, 38MB). […]
The latest ideas in broadcasting, online media and content
The IBC 2005 conference and exhibition opens in Amsterdam today and runs until Tuesday 13 September. This annual event, organized by the International Broadcasting Convention, takes place at the RAI conference center. The conference is divided into theme days covering Delivery to the Consumer, High Definition Television, Mobile Applications, Content Production and Protection and D-Cinema. […]
Strong rumours persist about Skype acquisition
From the Financial Times this morning: Skype, the European internet telephony provider, on Thursday played down talk of an imminent takeover, declining to comment on a report that Ebay had joined the list of potential suitors with an offer valued at up to $5bn. Ebay on Thursday declined to comment on a report in the […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #66: September 8, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (podcast junkie; support for parents; Ray Nagin interview case study; non-primary audience listener); Katrina – public service announcements, has Katrina saved the US media?, controversy over the word ‘refugee’; new reports from IBM, Edelman and Intelliseek; wikis, news releases, buttons and podcasting; the critical pieces in the change communication puzzle; […]
Podcasts for Katrina relief efforts
As part of our discussion about Hurricane Katrina in show #66 yesterday of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I discussed an initiative by Podshow that enables podcasters to promote and offer appeal messages for supporting disaster relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina. If you visit the Podshow Cares page, you’ll find […]