Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on Rush Limbaugh podcasting, building trust for a blog, tech issues with podcasts and iPods, guest hosting FIR, creating an RSS feed for blog comments); Kensington lock hack follow up; a savage view of Naked Conversations; favourite podcasts and how to produce them; Flash-ing round workplace restrictions on browsers and aggregators; […]
Category: Weblogs
Time pressure…
Imagine – no real time to blog! That’s been where I’ve been at all this week, hence pretty light posting in recent days. No signs of that improving, sorry to say, until early next week. This is also affecting my ability to respond promptly to comments left on various posts. Lots of great conversation-starters, and […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #36: May 26, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on Autodesk’s blog and podcast combo; which non-tech companies use blogs; how to structure Desert Island Discs); podcasting in the news: going mainstream; Blogebrity and reality or not; looking for writers via blog posts; the virtues of print; RSS comes to Microsoft’s Knowledge base; the London geek mega-dinner next month. Show […]
When travel isn’t pretty
Regular listeners to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report will know that my co-presenter, Shel Holtz, travels a lot. Much more than I do at the moment. In fact, during the past month, Shel’s co-presented our show from the road on six occasions. And there’s more travel for him coming up in June. […]
Boeing takes second step with 777 blog
Aircraft maker Boeing launched a new blog ten days ago – Flight Test Journal, a place where the engineers and test pilots of Boeing’s new 777-200LR Worldliner talk about their work in getting the world’s longest-range commercial airplane ready for commercial service. Only two posts so far, but it looks like the scene has been […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #37: May 30, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on podcast vertigo and rich media search; full-content RSS feeds are the way to go; garbled ID3 tags); getting on an email blacklist – and getting off it; more Naked Conversations; tips on presentations; Flash-based RSS aggregator; good and bad business podcast listening; Flash-based media players and MP3 files; Desert Island […]
The consequences of email blacklisting
During last weekend, Shel and I learned that the domain of For Immediate Release, our podcast blog, was included in a couple of email blacklists. These are databases that include the addresses of domains known to be the source for spam email. And on Monday, I learned that my domain, the domain of this blog, […]
Mainstream media knows more than you think
BBC News: Newspapers are far from dead, despite the challenge from online news and blogs, media executives have been told. […] The challenge now for established newspaper groups is not just to respond to changes in the consumption of electronic media, but to start profiting from the new ways that audiences access their media. I’ve […]
TypePad blogs to get spam-fighting features
If you have a TypePad blog, here’s some good news on what Six Apart is planning to implement as part of major improvements in everyone’s efforts to combat comment and trackback spam. An announcement yesterday on the Everything TypePad support site includes this news about enhancements Six Apart is working on: First, we’ll provide support […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #38: June 2, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on how to track podcast listeners); fighting email spam – an open source PR project; US government PR gaffe; blogging as a corporate job; more podcasting developments; Boeing’s test pilots’ blog; stealing RSS content. Show notes for June 2, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a […]
PubSub tool measures links in RSS feeds
Blog matching service PubSub has introduced LinkStats, a very cool statistics tool that enables you to see the inbound and outbound links to and from your (or any) blog. Once you enter a blog URL, it will return the results for the past 30 days. Not only do you get a text table listing inbound/outbound […]
MSM: ‘Bloggers are here to stay’
I wrote a post the other day that said that mainstream media knows more than you think about blogging and other new-media communication channels. I’ve just read a very good column from last Sunday in The Observer (the online paper, not the blog) by John Naughton, a mainstream media man who clearly does. In his […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #39: June 6, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on starting a podcast; Boeing’s blogging guidelines; full-time vs. part-time blogging; broken headsets; PR advice for the US government); keeping political commentary away; what’s next for Europe?; Lee’s 4 learnings; finding out who listens; podcasting growth and Apple’s lead; new books on podcasting; guest co-presenter for the next show; some of […]
How was it for you?
Great event last night – the London geek dinner. At least 180 people there from how I judged it. This must have been the first and biggest such event in the UK, and maybe in Europe. How was it? Well, for my part, I met some really great people, many I’ve know only online. Lots […]
The days are numbered for ‘gatekeeper’ journalism
Journalism is the rightful guardian of disclosure of news and information, and what should be disclosed and what shouldn’t, and has a duty and a right to maintain that position. That’s my interpretation of a very interesting discussion point in John Humphreys’ opening address at the Communication Directors Forum conference on Wednesday evening. The conference […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report: Podcast #40 – June 9, 2005
Content summary: Introducing our co-host, Sam Whitmore; Listeners’ comments (on a new iPod-focused wiki and the work involved in creating audio comments); consequences of the isolation of print publications from their online staffs; Neville’s introductory comments from London, including a discussion about an airline survey; the hard-dollar return from online sales and its potential to […]
A lot of learning to do
It’s the final day of the Communication Directors Forum on board the P&O Oriana, currently at anchor off Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Participating in this three-day conference has been a valuable experience, both from being a speaker and a delegate. Yesterday I hosted my workshop (described as a think tank in the conference catalogue). […]
Don’t become an RSS extract
Catching up with RSS feeds since being away for much of the past week, I read BL Ochman’s Why Full Posts in RSS Feeders Don’t Make Sense with some exasperation. As the writer of only three blogs with summary content in an RSS feed that I still read, BL’s argument for not publishing full content […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #41: June 13, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on the linear nature of podcasts, RBLs, organizing thoughts about podcasts); guidelines for employee blogging; the Communication Directors Forum; communication measurement; what if the novelty of blogging wears off?; blogging and engagement; sans-serif or serif fonts?; rebuilding trust; blogs for tourism; the Ragan Corporate Communicators Conference; IABC International Conference; Global PR […]
Can Ketchum walk the new media talk?
I was reading the press release issued yesterday by Ketchum Public Relations announcing their new service offering called Ketchum Personalized Media: "a global service that advises organizations to know how, why and when to integrate the growing roster of online and wireless media – from blogs and podcasts to mobile marketing – into their overall […]