Year: 2006

  • Prediction 2007: A great year for communicators

    I’ve been reading what a lot of bloggers are predicting for 2007. If only a handful of these things actually happen, it will be a phenomenal year for people, for business and for Life As We Know It! While I…

  • Naked conversations

    Where else would you read about a survey like this but in The Sun? – NEARLY half of Brits regularly chat to friends and family on their home phone NAKED, a survey has revealed. The poll showed 49 per cent…

  • Growing pains for Second Life

    I managed to connect to Second Life this morning for the first time in two days. The virtual world – generally known as the grid – was completely offline since Thursday as developer Linden Lab grappled with a combination of…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #201: December 28, 2006

    Content summary: Two new interviews and a book review posted; ethics Skypecast is on Jan 13; Lee Hopkins eulogizes on FIR; Mitch Joel’s international 6POS podcast; the ways PR agents piss off journalists, and a few companies that do it…

  • The great PR cock-up

    The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely,…