Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; FIR Skypecast reminder for Jan 13; a handy tip for your New Year’s hangover; revisiting the Microsoft/Edelman laptop Windows Vista issue and listeners’ opinions; the world in 2066 as seen by The Economist; Centiare the directory wiki launches; Michael Hyatt to write his new book on a blog; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for January 1, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 52-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Thursday January 4…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
2 responses to “The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #202: January 1, 2007”
Wow. Thanks a million, Shel, for featuring a mini-review of Centiare.com. We’re really excited about the possibilities of Semantic MediaWiki being turned loose on corporations, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Wikipedia is really amazing WITHOUT semantic web — imagine a similar project WITH it! I’ll be looking for you to register soon at Centiare and start building out the “PR space”. ;-)
[…] Related: Edelman’s Rick Murray was interviewed by PR Week US earlier this month in which he defended the ethics of their blogger outreach. As I opined in FIR #202, I didn’t think much of this quote by Rick in the interview: “The reality is, from the standpoint of ethics and disclosure, we did this by the book.” […]