Month: May 2006
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Six Apart outage caused by stupidity
If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart‘s servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #134: May 4, 2006
Content summary: Show numbering; FIR Listener Survey results posted; Summit on the Future conference; FIR meetup at the IABC Vancouver conference; Kami Huyse podcasts the first 100 Geek Dinners; BL Ochman’s new ethics blog; LA Times suspends journalist for violating…
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The shift in trust
The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF) today: A major 10-nation public opinion poll exploring Trust in the Media has found that even though the media is more trusted than the national government in half the countries…
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Cool new features in Skype beta
Skype launched a new beta (version 2.5.0.72) today of its software for Windows that has some pretty neat new features. Bill Campbell lists them all. The one I’ve set up straightaway is being able to send SMS messages from Skype to…
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The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post…