If you want to find information on the popularity (sometimes equal to influence but not always) of PR bloggers, you already have quite a few choices such as Technorati Blog Finder: PR and Blogpulse Profiles. There’s now another choice – The PR List, part of PubSub’s new Community Lists. Managed by Constantin Basturea, the list […]
Category: Web/Tech
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #84: November 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (getting online when traveling abroad); strife in podcast land; a lawsuit against Apple goes international; don’t play non-podsafe music: the warning from Adam Curry’s recent experience; blaming bloggers for rioting in France; eBay introduces more RSS feeds; Dan York’s Report; search strategies for PR; questions from a Financial Times feature on […]
FIR Speakers & Speeches: November 3, 2005 – CiB & IABC UK Panel Discussion
This panel discussion in London, organized by the British Association of Communicators in Business and the IABC UK Chapter, was titled "Join the Virtual Revolution." The organizers described the event: "Digital media is changing the way we communicate. Just as we’ve got our heads around the internet, email and mobile technology, a new wave of […]
Daily Telegraph starts podcasting
A new mainstream media entrant into podcasting – The Daily Telegraph today launched the first of its new daily podcasts. The UK daily says that its podcast is a single audio download available each day, consisting of three key articles from the day’s paper selected by the editor. I listened to the first one, a […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #85: November 14, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (Blue Boxes and phone phreaks; the music industry and podsafe music; recommended IT Conversations interview; Daily Telegraph starts podcasting; more on the anti-blog backlash; regulating American political blogs); Wikipedia defends itself; report from the Portable Media Expo; most powerful women bloggers list includes a man; Podcaster News launches; My Syndicaat RSS […]
TypePad customers get an offer that’s hard to refuse
As many TypePad users know, the hosted blog service has been a literal nightmare to use in recent months. I’ve posted my frustrations about it as have many other TypePad users. There’s even one blogger who started a blog (on Blogger) last week on filing a class action lawsuit against Six Apart. No takers yet […]
Hoodwinking the marketers
Thanks to executive blogs and internet video, the dark ages are back, according to an article in The Independent yesterday. In a rant that displays an embarrassing lack of awareness and understanding of the changes in how relationships with customers and others are emerging, Stefano Hatfield uses GM vice chairman Bob Lutz and the GM […]
Les Blogs 2.0 geared up
Just under three weeks to go until Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris – and the event is certainly shaping up into what will likely be the most significant meeting of its type in Europe in 2005. There are some impressive speakers and participants who will be there. If you’re interested in being part of discussions […]
The Frappr nine
Last month, I signed up for Frappr. This is the neat free web service that lets you create a map that connects you with your friends and colleagues wherever they are. Those friends and colleagues can add their photo. If they have a Frappr map, you can link to theirs. The service is rapidly gaining […]
No more email guilt
BBC News: Live8 organiser Bob Geldof has revealed his contempt for e-mails, blaming them for tying up people’s time and stopping genuine action. Mr Geldof told a conference in London that e-mails “give a feeling of action, which is a mistake”. Here’s the best bit: […] He told delegates that what workers achieve each day […]
Blogging with Flock
For the past couple of days, I’ve been playing with Flock, the new web browser. Not so much for its capabilities as a browser – and it is pretty good at that – but more its capability as a blog editing tool. Even though it is still in development (nice warning when you download the […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #86: November 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (the FIR comment line; FIR RSS feeds; Shel’s website calendar; group vs. individual blogs; blogs and podcasts as conversation; the appropriateness of blogs as part of integrated marketing programs, Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits blog); Neville’s trip to the University of Sunderland, FIR has a Frappr map, more on Waxmail, Heather Green’s new […]
Murphy’s Law and smartphones
One of the downside elements of being away for a couple of days and not online at all is the time you then have to spend going through email and RSS feeds. It always seems to me that the high volume of stuff is directly proportional to the length of time you’re not online. Definitely […]
The new PR and the angels of the north
The north-east of England probably wouldn’t be the first place that would spring to mind where you’d expect to find one of the hottest gatherings of communicators eager to learn about the new PR – the place where communication and the new media ecosystem (blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts) intersect and connect. Yet that’s what happened […]
Killing Skypekiller FUD
As a long-time user of the Skype internet phone service, I read with more than passing interest about SkypeKiller, an application that’s designed to remove the Skype software from your computer. Not just uninstall it as you would on a Windows PC with the Add/remove programs applet. No, this eradicates Skype completely, either from a […]
The importance of continuity of personal presence
A good friend of mine in the UK has just left the big manufacturing company he’s been with for over 15 years and is now facing the Herculean task of quickly building and establishing his own identity. Two key starting points – a new email address (he had a personal Hotmail account but everyone knows […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #87: November 21, 2005
Content summary: Show 100 wish; The Sunderland experience; listeners’ comments; new free RSS and wiki tools; angry AOL bloggers push boycotts; blocking bots from stealing content; Google’s new head of communications in Europe and other developments; Eric Schwartzman’s Spinfluencer report; join the FIR community; upcoming interviews and book reviews; and more. Show notes for November […]
Sony’s rootkit woes tip of the reputation iceberg
Mainstream music publisher Sony BMG is getting hammered left, right and center as fall-out continues over Sony’s rootkit debacle. The rootkit in question was a spyware-like application encoded onto certain copy-protected music CDs that Sony sold in the US and which did some “ET phone home” type of activities from your computer without you knowing […]
Extending RSS far beyond just delivery
Two extremely interesting and related pieces of information about RSS have come out in the past 24 hours. First, “How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued and consumed,” an 8-page PDF report from FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo. There is quite a bit of technically-focused information in Dick’s report, much of which goes […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 23-Nov-05
Amazon Launches Product Wikis Attention Movable Type Developers Blinx delivers legendary university speeches French Interior Minister reads (and comments on) blogs Google Analytics makes site owners illegal Google Base Goes Live GourmetStation: A Case Study of Damage Control in the Blogosphere IKEA Brand Evangelists Take to the Blogosphere Knowledge Work Needs Social Software Les Blogs […]